What Happen to Neptune re-ducked

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17 Responses to “What Happen to Neptune re-ducked”

  1. All the links are very interesting but still do not answer my persistant question, how did this term originate in The Muse lexicon? Something tells me that 03 somehow started this and shouldn’t it be “What Happened to Neptune”? “What happen to Neptune” sounds like Ricky Ricardo!
    I’m on Jude’s sled with this, some of the inside jokes in this forum are a little too inside, if you know what I mean. Does anyone in the class care to let us all in on the joke?
    Just saying….Heaay!

  2. We traveled to Virginia Beach with O3 many years ago during the golden days of over-indulgence. There had been, at one time, a fiberglass sculpture of Neptune at Willoughby Spit that had been a “destination” for photo opportunities and, I suppose it could also be said that it was one of many objects of fixation for O3. However, on this particular trip, as we emerged from the Hampton Roads tunnel, the Neptune sculpture was gone, which caused O3 to proclaim “What happen to Neptune?” …and with the over indulgence in full effect, I don’t think it would be an over-exaggeration to say that O3 must’ve shouted “What happen to Neptune” at odd moments more than 100 times throughout that weekend. It has thus become part of the idiomatic lexicon, and in faithful oral history fashion, is repeated just as it was orginally spoken… “What happen,” instead of “what happened.”

    If others choose to challenge my memory of this event, it wouldn’t be the first time, but this is the way it went down, man.

  3. I’d say my catch phrase was repeated by me 1/3 of time and 2/3′s by others. What ever works is ok by me.

    http://thedailymuse.org/2008/08/19/neptune-then-and-now/

  4. Thanks for the explanation. I suspected something like this.
    The phrase is rather catchy, “What Happen To Neptune”!
    A non sequitor that can be used in almost any social situation as an ice breaker.

  5. The other one from the same weekend is “Look at the Palmetto!”…and O3 is right – both phrases was are oft repeated by others.

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