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We're celebrating Yada Yada Yada Day like it's the Festivus for the Rest of Us — gifts from one of TV's funniest comedy shows: Seinfeld. So grab your favorite puffy shirt, summon your inner marine biologist, and dive into this hilarious list of words. Serenity Now!
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  1. prospect
    the possibility of future success
    Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any prospects?
    George Costanza: No.
    Cosmo Kramer: You got anything on the horizon?
    George Costanza: Uh, no.
    Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any action at all?
    George Costanza: No.
    Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any conceivable reason for even getting up in the morning?
    George Costanza: I like to get the Daily News.
  2. conceivable
    capable of being imagined
    Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any prospects?
    George Costanza: No.
    Cosmo Kramer: You got anything on the horizon?
    George Costanza: Uh, no.
    Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any action at all?
    George Costanza: No.
    Cosmo Kramer: Do you have any conceivable reason for even getting up in the morning?
    George Costanza: I like to get the Daily News.
  3. instinct
    inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to stimuli
    George Costanza: It became very clear to me sitting out there today that every decision I've made in my entire life has been wrong. My life is the complete opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every aspect of life, be it something to wear, something to eat — it's all been wrong.
  4. heckle
    challenge aggressively
    Cosmo Kramer: Well, after he heckled Toby, she got so upset, she ran out of the building and a street sweeper ran over her foot and severed her pinky toe.
  5. sever
    cut off from a whole
    Cosmo Kramer: Well, after he heckled Toby, she got so upset, she ran out of the building and a street sweeper ran over her foot and severed her pinky toe.
  6. commotion
    a disorderly outburst or tumult
    Cosmo Kramer: Then everybody is screamin,' because the driver, he's passed out from all the commotion.
  7. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
    Jerry: According to most studies, people's number-one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two! Now, this means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
  8. bellow
    a very loud utterance
    George Costanza: The sea was angry that day, my friends — like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. I got about fifty feet out and suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence, he let out a great bellow. I said, "Easy, big fella!" And then, as I watched him struggling, I realized that something was obstructing its breathing. From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great fish.
  9. obstruct
    block passage through
    George Costanza: The sea was angry that day, my friends — like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. I got about fifty feet out and suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence, he let out a great bellow. I said, "Easy, big fella!" And then, as I watched him struggling, I realized that something was obstructing its breathing. From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great fish.
  10. standard
    the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
    Elaine: You know what your problem is? Your standards are too high.
    Jerry: I went out with you.
    Elaine: That's because my standards are too low.
  11. industry
    the people engaged in a kind of commercial enterprise
    Cosmo Kramer: [phone rings, Kramer picks up the phone] Hello...What Delay Industries?
    George Costanza: [yelling from the bathroom] Vandelay! Say Vandelay!
  12. serenity
    the absence of mental stress or anxiety
    Lloyd Braun: You know, you should tell your dad that 'serenity now' thing doesn't work.
  13. bisque
    a thick, creamy soup made from shellfish
    I met this lawyer, we went out to dinner, I had the lobster bisque, we went back to my place, yada yada yada, I never heard from him again.
  14. integrity
    moral soundness
    Jerry: I don't even want to talk about it anymore. What were you thinking? What was going on in your mind? Artistic integrity? Where, where did you come up with that? You're not artistic and you have no integrity.
  15. scheme
    an elaborate and systematic plan of action
    Frank Costanza: My George isn't clever enough to hatch a scheme like this.
Created on Thu Apr 25 12:45:52 EDT 2024 (updated Thu Apr 25 13:21:34 EDT 2024)

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