Embiggen and cromulent

Jared Spool spotted that Flickr uses Simpsons lingo in their slide show feature and points readers in the direction of Wikipedias Culturally significant words and phrases from The Simpsons, where more Simpsons lingo is defined, explained and mainstreamed.
I’ll try not to embiggen the significance of this development – but popular culture is forming the language of tomorrow. The number of movie catchphrases entering our daily use of language is surely loooong.
But some cool ones stand out of course 100 Movie Quotes.
…still I’m surprised that Beam me up, Scotty isn’t in the top 100.

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