The World According to The Zen Master

I find myself speaking like TZM more and more, using his terms. I suppose if I lived with someone with a distinctive accent, I'd start to pick that up, too. Anyway, I thought it might finally be time to share TZM-speak with the rest of the world.....

In this list, I'll put the usual word or phrase first and then TZM's term--this will be kind of like the analogies section of the GRE:

• bananas = yellow ones
• arm = wing
• legs = wheels
• the evening news = the report
• television = the set
• radio = squawk box
  
• small = baby (For instance, a small spoon is a "baby spoon." Those new SMART cars are "baby cars.")
• dinner = platters
• lunch = luncheon platters
• George = Source ("This Week with George Stephanopoulos" is "The Report with Source.")
  
• unexplained (in an eerie way) = Twilight Zone (My knuckle that healed really quickly that time was a "Twilight Zone finger.")
  
• gross/disgusting = world's most horrifying (The Travel Channel's "Bizarre Food" show is "World's Most Horrifying Platters.")
• a lot = 4.7 million (For example: How long did you have to wait at the doctor's office? 4.7 million years.)
  

There are many more, but I think you get the idea.