Rickyisms

Besides his amazing shirts, the think I like best about the character  Ricky on the Canadian comedy hit “Trailer Park Boys” is the way he mangles common expressions. Here’s a collection I found online:

* "Lucy is banging cops which is no big deal I guess. I don't run Lucy she's for to be her own woman" (free to be)
* "Lucy might have a problem, but what Lucy doesn't know won't learn her." (hurt)
* "Get me two bags of chips Dressed All Over and Zesty Mordant". (All Dressed and Zesty, Mordant is French for Zesty and is a mix-up of reading both languages on the bilingual packaging in Canada)
* "Yeah get me some jalapano chips" [pronounced ja-LAP-ano] (jalapeño)
* "Worst case Ontario..." (scenario)
* "Supply and Command..." (demand)
* "Denial and Error..." (trial)
* "Make my words" (Mark)
* "Hey Bubs are you watching that documentary on Saskatchewans?" (Sasquatches)
* "(While addressing the Judge in court) Thank you your Majesty." (Honour)
* "She's just going through a phrase...." (phase)
* "Make like a tree.....and fuck off." ("leave")
* "I toadaso, I ****ing toadaso." ("told you so")
* "It was golfing flames, flames golfing out the side." ("engulfed in")
* "It's a Catch 23 situation." ("Catch 22")
* "(To Alex Lifeson of Rush) Well play that Diane Sawyer song then." (Tom Sawyer)
* "This Trailer Park looks like a tropical earthquake blew through here Lahey." (storm)
* "We can get 2 birds stoned at once." (with one stone)
* "Why do you look like Indianapolis Jones? (Indiana)
* "He passed with flying carpets." (colours)
* "It doesn't take rocket appliances." (science)
* "Rocket surgery" (Brain surgery)
* "Trinity's at the age where it's gorilla see gorilla do." (monkey)
* "Do you got a search warranty for that." (warrant)
* "I must be fire retarded or something." (retardant)
* "I'm not a pezmist, I'm an optometrist. (Pessimist, Optimist)
* "What goes around "is all around" ("comes around")
* (From Ricky's dad Ray, the shit apple doesn't fall far from the tree). "These plates got me from Tuscany, Arizona to Kentville, Nova Scotia." (Tucson)
* "I'll drive you back to the park Lucy, but there is probably a pretty good chance that it might be over between us" (Ricky uses a triple conditional, just one would be sufficient)
* "If my dad and Julian and Bubbles hadn't had been out all night getting lap-dances and getting drunk, the whole thing could have been preventative". (prevented)
* "To be honest with you I fucking hate bagmitten. I mean I played it in jail but thats because you can't smoke which is fucked. So to take your mind off the cigarettes you play sports." (badminton)
* "Breaker, Breaker come in earth. This is Rocketship 27, some aliens fucked over the carbinator in engine number four, we are going to try to refuckulate it and land on Juniper". (carburator, repair, Jupiter)
* "That's not a ladybug. That's a "cannerpillar". ("caterpillar")
* How to get "Bhurbon" stains out of "Kahiki pants" ("Bourbon", "Khaki pants")
* "One man's garbage is another man person's good ungarbage". ("One man's trash is another man's treasure")
* "Au gratin" (gratis, free; au gratin is with cheese)
* "I surance" (Insurance)
* "Swallow my prize" (pride)
* "Neither here, there, and everywhere" (neither here nor there)
* "Boys, let's make toast" (Let's toast)
* "There's no Lurches in there Bubbles is there?" (leeches)
* "I know what you're doing, Lahey, you're trying to fill my feet." (Fill my shoes)
* "Lahey was my mother's mating name and they called me Randy at school no big deal." (maiden)
* "You gotta remember, every kid goes through phrases." (phases)
* "It doesn't take a rocket appliance."(scientist)
* "What Julian don't grow won't burn him". (Know, Hurt)