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Satan
See the devil.

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Say
See for example.

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Scooby Doo's Nutcase Motel
A pleasingly meaningless catchphrase.

Example: "Scooby Doo's Nutcase Motel."
Secret origin: Coined by reader David Benham of Sawbridgeworth. Taken for his own by Stuart Campbell.
First used: AP39

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Secretly ironic
(1) Recovery line. (2) Wounding comment.

Example 1: "73%. We're being secretly ironic, of course."
Example 2: "Or possibly you were being secretly ironic."
Secret origin: Coined by Bill Watterson for the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin starts the Neo-Regionalist art movement. Taken for his own by Jonathan Nash.

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Shadowy agents
See AP's sinister agents.

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Sinister agents
See AP's sinister agents.

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SINISTER EVIL MEGA-GLOBAL CORPORATION
(1) The powerful conglomerate that owns AMIGA POWER. (2) A powerful non-specific conglomerate.

Example 1: "We are all in thrall to the SINISTER EVIL MEGA-GLOBAL CORPORATION."
Example 2: "It is a time of war between SINISTER EVIL MEGA-GLOBAL CORPORATIONS."
Secret origin: Obscure. JN?
Note: Variations include: SINISTER MEGA-GLOBAL CORPORATION, THE SINISTER ORGANISATION BEHIND AMIGA POWER, etc.
Note: It should, of course, be SINISTER EVIL GLOBAL MEGA-CORPORATION, but that doesn't sound 'right.' And isn't silly enough.

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Spook!
An expression of surprise. Often highlights a peculiar circumstance.

Example: "Monkey Island 2 features no monkeys. Spook!"
Secret origin: The original Matt Bielbyism. Introduced in YS.
First used: AP-Zero
Note: Sometimes considered, erroneously, to have been taken from that comic who dressed as a convict, posed shifting his weight jitteringly from heel to toe and jumping backwards ("Spook!") whenever he reached a punchline, and who was incredibly well-known for about five months before vanishing without trace. (We can't even remember his name. Possibly it was Spook.)

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Stupid scum
See You are all stupid scum and deserve to die.

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Surely that's a foul, ref?
(1) A reference to any act of comically excessive violence. (2) An ironic caption for a screenshot of a foul from a football game.

Example: "She shoots him in the face. Surely that's a foul, ref?"
Secret origin: Traditional. (Possibly from the Viz strip, Billy The Fish.) Adapted by Stuart Campbell.
Note: Not to be confused with "Ref-e-ree!", an expression of dismay at something having unfairly gone wrong, used occasionally about the office but not in the mag itself.

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