I'm there! You know, I just put the link the the 'Yes Virginia' article on my LJ yesterday. Here's some stuff that was on the top of my head - I'll send you more if I come up with something really good. Anyway - for Pop Culture references... try some classice horror movie references. It depends on who is freaking out and why... but: I'd say: 'Going down the Rabbit Hole' but it's been ruined by the Matrix. Maybe: 'Going Pea Soup' ? How about: 'Going Gaiman?' Maybe try something from a children's movie (like the Dark Crystal, The Princess Bride, Wizards, Labrynth, etc.) If your culture is particularly dry and sarcastic, they could say: 'Yep...another one screaming the Sound of True Suffering.' I like: 'Going to meet Sting.' personally - but all kinds of things could be taken from Labrynth. If you don't think it's too recent (though there are plenty of reasons why you might want to do it), you could make a Harry Potter reference. If ya did, I'd recomend something unclear like: 'Having Harry's Birthday' or 'Going 10' or 'Harry's balls just dropped.'
A mage loosing it and blatantly using powers in an inapropiate way: 'Carrie' or 'Carrie'd' - Basically, verb the word Carrie. E.G. "Yea, they woke him up in a bad mood, and Carrie'd those Jehova's Wittnesses." etc. Old horror movies could be helpful sources.
Going Innsmouth would be better for someone looking all f'ed up as the result of something or just looked slightly inhuman and sinister in some way - 'The Innsmouth Look'
If I hadn't been out mini-golfing for charity for a big chunk of this weekend (most of Saturday), I would have leapt onto this little bandwagon. But it looks like you gots a handle on the situation. I will have to strive for a mention in one of your books in another fashion! ^_~
You have a real 'cockney-rhyming-slang' thing going there... you could, in fact, mix some in if you wanted :P I'd also like to throw in: 'Going Mayhew' - Like from Neverware. And: 'It's all Richard-Richard' - meaning a supernatural entity not understanding a mundane thing/function, etc. (Richard-Richard-Mayhew-Dick ... because Door doesn't understand naming conventions).
You know, I just put the link the the 'Yes Virginia' article on my LJ yesterday.
Here's some stuff that was on the top of my head - I'll send you more if I come up with something really good.
Anyway - for Pop Culture references... try some classice horror movie references. It depends on who is freaking out and why... but:
I'd say: 'Going down the Rabbit Hole' but it's been ruined by the Matrix.
Maybe: 'Going Pea Soup' ?
How about: 'Going Gaiman?'
Maybe try something from a children's movie (like the Dark Crystal, The Princess Bride, Wizards, Labrynth, etc.)
If your culture is particularly dry and sarcastic, they could say: 'Yep...another one screaming the Sound of True Suffering.'
I like: 'Going to meet Sting.' personally - but all kinds of things could be taken from Labrynth.
If you don't think it's too recent (though there are plenty of reasons why you might want to do it), you could make a Harry Potter reference. If ya did, I'd recomend something unclear like: 'Having Harry's Birthday' or 'Going 10' or 'Harry's balls just dropped.'
A mage loosing it and blatantly using powers in an inapropiate way: 'Carrie' or 'Carrie'd' - Basically, verb the word Carrie. E.G. "Yea, they woke him up in a bad mood, and Carrie'd those Jehova's Wittnesses." etc.
Old horror movies could be helpful sources.
Going Innsmouth would be better for someone looking all f'ed up as the result of something or just looked slightly inhuman and sinister in some way - 'The Innsmouth Look'
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"Gone blatsky": Gone into shock from a supernatural revelation, i.e. We told him about the uktena living in the reservoir and he went totally blatsky.
"Tower-shaped": The equivalent of FUBAR, i.e. This situation has gone completely tower-shaped (See "The Tower" of Tarot fame; synonym: "cylindrical")
"Harry's birthday": Equivalent of clusterfuck, Just stay outside, it's Harry's birthday in there right now.
"smoker": A low-class, inexperienced magus, as in "smoke and mirrors"; synonym: "icker" (As in David Icke)
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If I hadn't been out mini-golfing for charity for a big chunk of this weekend (most of Saturday), I would have leapt onto this little bandwagon.
But it looks like you gots a handle on the situation.
I will have to strive for a mention in one of your books in another fashion! ^_~
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I'd also like to throw in:
'Going Mayhew' - Like from Neverware.
And: 'It's all Richard-Richard' - meaning a supernatural entity not understanding a mundane thing/function, etc. (Richard-Richard-Mayhew-Dick ... because Door doesn't understand naming conventions).
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