This troper found this in his scanner one day. He knows it made sense once... but, how?

This troper had a similar experience: I have this habit of writing random phrases and words down when I'm bored, so a while ago when I found a piece of paper with maths notes on it from last year (note: 2009), there were plenty of them (I find maths incredibly boring). Most of them made sense, but one caught my attention: "be free, my cows!". After staring at it blankly for a second or two, I decided it probably made sense to me when I wrote it.

This troper had a case similar to this as well:She was looking through a journal she'd abandoned a year ago when she say a doodle: five smiley faces all yelling out "BANANA!" What made this freakier is that I was writing about school in the section where the drawing was located, and I could not, for the life of me, figure out why "BANANA!" was written there.

It took me a while to figure out what "Mutus Dedit Nomen Cocis" meant. I have yet to figure out why I wrote it a whole lot in a spiral notebook that also contained various drawings. Please refrain from asking what possible context it could have made sense in.

This troper fell victim to this ''hard.'' One night, I came home to my two little sisters and friends watching KungPowEnterTheFist, and had the very bad luck to walk through the door right at the line "Well, you must be quite the fighter to make it past my cow." Seriously, that line '''needs''' context.

The context doesn't make any sense anyway.

Subverted for this troper, who enjoys ChannelSurfing through the weirdest television shows and jumping into the strangest occurances, and then quickly jumping out of them enjoying my WTF moment... especially with {{Chowder}} and Flapjack.

This troper has had to append this to many an occurence of TheMassiveMultiFandomRPG to outsiders.

Today, during math class, a person sitting at this troper's table stuck a pen up his nose for reasons that made perfect sense if you had been a part of that conversation. While we were all laughing at the funny joke, we noticed some people a few tables over giving us some really weird looks.

This troper recently got the DeathNote boxset, and for his own reasons decided to carry around the rulebook. Some random kid from class saw it, and without any context, thought it was serious. Hilarity did not ensue.

This troper was tuning out while her parents and sister were talking. The discussion was about cooking and ingredients, which got on to the topic of goat's milk. This troper did not know that, as the only thing she heard when she zoned back in was "you just take one goat, and squeeze".

Today, in a D&D game, our party ended up creating a fairly weird object, a flying gilded rock-boat... there was no ground, and we were in freefall, after being shot out of a volcano. The explanation itself seems to be in this trope anyway.

This troper and a friend have an ongoing tradition of the "Out Of Context Quote Of The Day". Examples include "per unit area of pants", "now you are being ominous in pink" and "but there seems to be a conspicuous lack of batman in my ice cream". Believe it or not, they all make sense in context.

...Then ''please'' explain the context.

"Ominous in pink" was in an IM conversation, regarding font color. "Per unit area of pants" was regarding an algorithm to determine the number of checks in plaid fabric. "Batman in my ice cream" had to do with mixing up "banana" (as in, Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey) and the Batman theme song.

From various conversations between This Troper and her sister: #QUOTE# "The world would be a better place if more people wore trench coats and fedoras." #QUOTE# "Fleens? You're not... ''Fleens''... Well, whatever you are, MAKE ME A PIZZA!!" #QUOTE# "Poke-Fu!" #QUOTE# "Okay, I'm standing right here, and anyone I see is getting a face full of "Boom"." #QUOTE# "We're not! We're green! Adjust your TV!" #QUOTE# "Please don't eat Kiba's face." #QUOTE# "I think I'm 70/30. Or something. But sex is ew so... yeah." #QUOTE# "But I don't want to be a pie! I don't like gravy..."

Note that most of these refer to movies, TV, or video games.

This troper's father would constantly quote the last of those lines after he saw the movie in question. No matter whether or not it had anything to do with the conversation at hand. Like many repeated pop culture references in my life, I quickly got sick of it.

This Troper walked in on her friend just as she said 'I squeezed too hard and it just went everywhere!' then walked right out again. (She was talking about glue.)

For the record, the following quote is my sister (who was speaking of a photo of her in an alligator pit hugging an alligator from her recent trip to see our aunt in Florida) #QUOTE# "Whenever I show this to people they ask why I was down there. IT'S BECAUSE HE'S BIG AND HAS TEETH AND I LOVE HIM!"

For This troper I have a subversion. I woke up after a *really* strange dream and my first thought was: #QUOTE# "That dream didn't make sense *in* context."

Troper has a joke that inverts it. Saying the phrase 'Ruler of Baltimore' to a non-Resident Evil fan will make them cratch their heads. To anyone who is a ResidentEvil fan, they will burst out laughing, because the novelizations of the crappy movies make Jill Valentine (yes, ''that'' Jill Valentine) the Ruler of Baltimore after the t-virus starts spreading across the globe. ''No, really.''

This troper and her sister call this sort of thing "Sock Moments", after a moment when this troper screamed at her sister "Because your sock is ubiquitous!" Yes, {{It Makes Sense In Context}}.

Pretty much everything this Troper or his friends say. Once during a school trip we were all sitting at a table next to the teachers table and midway through our conversation a teacher turned around and said "You know, pretty much any line from that conversation would be enough to get a lot of people to argue over what you were talking about."

Advice. If you're ever going to try to introduce {{Discworld}} to a friend, especially one who's not a particularly avid fan of fantasy and sci-fi...don't try to mention or explain The Luggage first. Just don't. In fact, it may be better to omit it altogether. Just let them find out for themselves, lest any time you talk about Discworld, they butt in with, "is that the one with the homicidal suitcase that eats people?"

This Troper and her friend discovered there is in fact no way to explain Discworld and make it sound sane. "So there's a giant turtle with four elephants on it which carry a planet..." The best way is just give them the book, demand they read it and wander off.

This troper's friends like to tell the story of how he got a blowjob from a guy in a London gay bar before throwing up on a stripper pole. For the record, a blowjob is the name of a drink that the bartender gave this troper for free. The stripper pole part of the story, however, is exactly what it sounds like.

This troper and her best friend have conversations like this all the time. In fact, they both consider it a sign of a good friendship. The most recent one is Squidfunkle, a squid with an afro, large eyebrows, and a creepy 80's mustache, and its rival, Bowl-Cut Octopus. The discussion which lead to it was relatively valid, but feck does it sound weird out of context.

This troper has had a conversation which ended in, "Fear my bone-hard pelvis bone!" This conversation was actually in no way sexual.

Add in a little {{Metaphorgotten}} and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and you've got this troper's choir director. Classics include: #QUOTE#"Keep your voice where you can see it." #QUOTE#"Tenors, let's see how your projectiles sound." #QUOTE#"Come in like a big pillow."

And the immortal: #QUOTE#"Pretend like you're stirring a great big bowl of... stuff."

We're all talking about the same guy, right? 'Cause I've got a few: #QUOTE#"Now put Princess Leia's buns in your throat." #QUOTE#"Tarbucket! I like that name!" #QUOTE#"Have you all seen TheBraveLittleToaster? Good. Now pretend you're the lamp, and you're telling the toaster to go play with his friends. Go on now, go have fun."

This troper turned on a TV and saw a scene where characters were locked in a hallway, and there were others outside that hallway panicking (I think. This happened a few years ago). There was a laser that passed through the hall and killed one, and then another laser, followed by a third one. There's one guy who managed to elude all three. The next laser turns into a mesh and cuts him into cubes. I turned off the TV, declaring whatever I was watching was too weird but probably made sense in context.

I believe you were watching Resident Evil The Movie.

This troper had an incident where his friend's mother walked in on this: #QUOTE# '''Friend:''' *points at the TV* Pee Pee! #QUOTE# '''Me:''' *mashing Xbox buttons with a strained look on my face* I DON'T HAVE TIME!!! (We were playing Dead Rising and I was fighting the gunshop owner.)

From various conversations:

"If nothing else, it proves that I don't dream in black-and-white." "You know, I had a weird dream last night." "Hmh." "I dreamt we were back in Paris, but the hotel looked just like our house does , except it was pink with green polkadots." "..." "If nothing else, it proves that I don't dream in black-and-white."

"Poop doesn't ''levitate''! ({{Beat}}) ...and I can't believe I just said that."

"Are you saying Aladdin stole his nipples?" From a deleted [[{{Natter}} discussion on the WalkingShirtlessScene page: "Apparently, Aladdin couldn't afford buttons for his vest." "Or a shirt." "Or nipples." "Are you saying Aladdin stole his nipples?"]]

(yelling to another person in a different room) I dropped my fork! (Troper's brother starts laughing his ass off) Troper is sitting in the dining room with his back to the oven. Bored, he starts playing with the door to the oven, causing it to slam shut with a loud CLANG. Upon being asked what the sound was, the phrase is uttered.

This troper once walked into a room where her sister was having a conversation with a friend, and the friend was saying "But then if there were zombie penguins, you'd have to choose between getting pecked to death or freezing!"

I was once having a conversation with a friend about a movie version of the Odyssey we were making for English class. As we were walking past the teacher, I said "So I'm pretty uncomfortable with cocaine." It was perfectly in context, but my English teacher got a laugh out of it.

This troper's friend was once talking about Omegle while waiting for a class to start and said something like, "You'll just end up talking to some weird Brazilian with a ''fetish for dogs''!" The teacher walked in and everyone else in the room went silent right as he loudly said the italised part. The teacher stared at him for a moment, burst out laughing and carried on with the lesson. This actually happens to that guy all the time, especially with teachers and especially with ''that'' particular teacher.

This troper's sociology teacher told us that, if you're talking to a local in Hawaii, you might get a sentence that ends up being 'da kine went to da da kine to get da kine'.

These kind of sentences come up frequently in conversations with this troper. For example:

"What if the whole ''universe'' were a mushroom?"

This (different) troper has actually had a similar thought...except about a bottle of beer and that the big bang was someone knocking over the bottle. Admittedly, I usually ask daft questions anyway...

This troper once had to climb on top of his neighbors roof to get his mattress.

"If dad asks, there are five naked Asians in my room."

A while back, I was dropping my brother off at his friend's house for a sleepover. As I went out the door, I heard said brother's friend directing his younger brother, "Go into the wilderness and find a cookie...''made of square roots!''" I still have no clue what that was about.

This troper plus a group of her friends singing I'll Make A Man Out Of You in ninja costumes. ...It did make sense, honestly.

This troper's example only applies to those who do not watch Bleach, unfortunately: #QUOTE# Me: I figured I'd just keep chopping until I reach his head and cut it off #QUOTE# Friend: Yeah, that was hilarious.

A (male) friend: "I need more balls. I only have two, and both are special". He was talking about Pokeballs.

"Think nice thoughs. Internet... Wii... DS...STUPID PENGUIN!" It makes sense in context, really!

In French class at middle school, this was the conversation between my classmates after a while:

Person 1."What? These things don't have wings, crocodiles do1"

Person 2."Um, crocodiles don't have wings..."

Person 1."...they do in my world!"

Person 2."Well, I guess we all have different fantasies about animals..."

everyone laughs*

When on vacation is Spain, I suddenly saw two guys rushing out of a shop, each carrying a big tray of sunglasses, and ran across the street without even caring about the traffic. ...That needs an explanation. (The most likely is that they stole them, though)

"Hey Troper, how's your tree?" "Better than a high-rise apartment complex."

"I think she was a lesbian too, she liked humping my slippers." Makes a ''little'' more sense when you know I was talking about a rabbit.

Last June, I bought ''{{Star Wars}}: {{The Force Unleashed}}: Ultimate Sith Edition'' and my dad asked me why Starkiller, as a Sith, was killing Stormtroopers and smashing TIE Fighters. I told him that it was to eliminate witnesses due to the "Rule of Two" being violated by Starkiller's being Vader's apprentice. In response to his blank stare, I said "It makes sense in context."

This Tropette has some very... weird dreams. Once, she was explaining a dream to her boyfriend in the school cafeteria when her friend walked up behind me: #QUOTE# '''Kenzberry''': So, after the ninja broke my nose with an orange... apparently you can feel pain in dreams, it's just sort of muted... the Great Bunny Slipper told me to go find the Plum King, who was throwing blue wolf pups off of cliffs, and-- #QUOTE# '''Friend''': What. #QUOTE# '''Boyfriend''': I know! I said "What" too! #QUOTE# '''Kenzberry''': You people had to be there. ItMakesSenseInContext, I swear to Avo.

This Troper uses this trope to her advantage to get friends to take interest in books with plot lines that run on RuleOfCool. #QUOTE#'''Troper''': The final fight of the book involves the main character riding an undead dinosaur through downtown Chicago during a mini zombie Apocalypse. And it totally makes sense in contest #QUOTE#'''Friend''': You wouldn't happen to have brought those books with you...? #QUOTE# '''Troper''': You're welcome.

"The fish fapped all over you!" This only makes "slightly" more sense in context.

This should explain this.

I logged onto the forum chat, when I found out the other members were in the middle of discussing how to share the world between them. So the first few posts made little sense. I got it later with the posts afterwards, plus, I got South America. :D

Let's just say it's kind of awkward walking into your classroom, and the first word you hear from your classmates is "masturbation". That ''needs'' context.

This troper was on the good ole intarwebz when she heard her sister, while playing the Wii, call out, "No Kooshie [our cat], it's called cheese!"

This troper's friends tend to say things that, if you weren't listening, sound kinda odd.

"It tastes like Mexicans!" (think NeonGenesisEvangelion)

"You just have to rub it a little" (a color change pencil)

"I'm a Satanist, can I wait with the food?" (how to get out of a boring wedding)

"They were like, OMG! Explosions! D: And I was like, OMG! Explosions! :D" (the girls' view and the guys' (and my) reaction to TheExpendables)

"God, I'm such a slash whore." (it's a LONG story...)

In a fanfic I'm writing, this kind of comes up a lot.

"Should I know you? You're kinda cute,"

"You blew up by accident?!"

"The cobblestones! They're a wreck!"

"Dude, I was shanked with a paper knife!"

"Well you blow up one train..."

"That's Bastard-sama to you,"

I am currently writing a story about a vampire slayer with a lot of BatmanInMyBasement situations. One example: picture an overweight teenage girl with a SawedOffShotgun that recently fired itself by accident saying "I was killing rats". Or the same girl being dragged by a hungry ghoul yelling "I'm playing a videogame!"...Yeah.

After an incredibly long all-night session spent playing RuneScape, poor, unfortunate zandercan spent about six hours from four AM to ten dreaming about a sequel to Vampire Slayer. The few details I remember about it appear to have been cobbled together from plot points from various widely different quests or just random game details in general (mostly Shadow of the Storm for some reason), but I swear to God it made perfect sense while I was dreaming. Of course, this ''does'' ignore that quite a few of the game's quests often really do have plot points that need context in order to make sense.

My dad once walked in on me and my sister having a conversation. He happened to hear me say, "Thunder is only trashcans on Tuesday." He made a perfect "Wut."

Some of my conversations with friends contain this:

Friend: "I AM A WATERMELON". "DON'T EAT MY MELONS D:<"

This tropette, her bff and said bff´s boyfriend had a very VERY wierd conversation which we filmed on her Ipod, in three parts. This tropette´s mother happened to ring whilst she was in fits of laughter over a very humorous rendition of "Old MacDonald". Some of our normal conversation go like this, too:

Me: "I´m telling you! The Penguin fancies the Whooping Wonder AND The Lunch box!" Friend: "Even though we all think we know that the Whooping Wonder is riding The Luggage´s motor-bike backwards." Me: "Anyway, I gotta go, Skyscraper wants to see me."

This troper today walked into the living room when her mom said "you know, when you have cheese floating over your head!"

This troper theorizes that all injokes fall under this trope, ergo every single family, workplace, school setting, and friend circle has phrases, words, etc., that "make sense in context". For example, my partner and I originally bonded over a shared musical fanhood, so a lot of our injokes and references come from that. We'll complain that our "head is full of chopstick and I don't like it" when we're tired to the point of being shattered, and we'll frequently say that we're "talking for free -- I can't stop myself" when we feel we're babbling on and on about nonsense.

"He tentacled his own coconut!"

One day, some of my classmates were walking into the classroom saying "...and then we'll dress up like animals." "Yeah, I'll bring the Russian bear on a motorcycle." That '''needs''' context.

Until about a week ago, I had never heard of the game Sopio. This changed when I walked into the hallway where my friends usually hang out and heard one guy saying to another, "I was gonna get Hippie Toilet, but then Harry turned me into a wombat." Actually, most conversations at my school are either this or ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

While I was watching a youtube video, I saw a comment I made 6 months ago on there, all it said was "nnnnaaaark", im sure it made sense at one point, but now I dont know ''what the hell it means.''

This troper keeps a notebook next to her bed. She hadnt looked at in a while, so whe decided to flip through it. Most of the pages were blank, except for this on the last page: "gay weasels".

Cosplaying tends to generate several of these phrases. Some of mine:

"It sure would be cool having my stalker around."

"Well, real men wear pink crowns!"

"Hey, give me my country back!"

"I'm sorry, Canada... but at the moment, I really, really hate your hair." a ''little'' when you know it's about Canada from Hetalia.)

Many of me and my brother's inside jokes are of this variety... they all make some kind of sense in context, really!

"Think nice thoughs. Internet... Wii... DS...STUPID PENGUIN!" While playing Mario Kart, my brother showed me a bag of ramen noodles which said on the back "Let the noodles boil while you think of pleasant thoughts". This made me say "Okay then, think nice thoughts... [[{{Geek}} Internet, Wii, DS..." *looking back at the game, where I had just drove into a penguin* "STUPID PENGUIN!" ]]

"Bowser fails at geography" From a YoutubePoop. Bowser:"But America's in AFRICAAA!"

"The shower is a pervert... it has a camera in it!" On vacation, the shower in our house had what at first looked like some kind of hidden camera in the ceiling. It wasn't, of course, but we kept joking about that the rest of the vacation... and still now.

"Toad fell down... TWICE!" "At the same place!" At one round of Mario Kart, we noticed a CPU Toad drove of the stage and fell down... at two rounds after each other, and at the same place too.

In the mountains with my friend... we began singing. This. "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of bear urine..." Even with context it's still odd.

I once had to explain at length why a document I was reading in the lab made me bust out laughing and shriek "Plain text!? ''You IDIOTS!''" I'm also quite proud nobody was there when a bit of BileFascination made me shout into the next cushion I could find: '''YOU! DISCREDIT! MERZBOW!!!'''

Anything that happens in this troper's improv club!

Me and my brother playing a game: "Venezuela's trying to become part of Asia!"

I have said the following at work: “Hand me that blood.” “We were throwing buckets of blood out the window.” and “Nobody’s gonna come clean up our blood. ” It makes sense in a blood bank.

Various ones I've heard recently:

"Sadly, God sucks at English."

"Poop, damn you, poop!"

Thanks to the sheer insanity of her friends and family, This Troper, the one with the 'gay weasels' above, has started the Out Of Context Quote Of The Day(CQD). So far:

OH MY GOD, YOU PUT SOMETHING IN THE MICROWAVE. (From my sister.)

Grr! Why do you have high fructose corn syrup in you! (From my best friend.)

Some examples of FB chats~ #QUOTE#Me: shhh! STOP IMING ME I'M CONCENTRATING XD #QUOTE#Friend: ON WHAT? #QUOTE#Me: REFRESHING THE PAGE #QUOTE# "SIMON COWELL IS A BEAVER. A FREAKING. BEAVER." #QUOTE#"I can even ride him to school! Somehow. DON'T ASK ME HOW. oh yeah and I'm getting a new phone I can text on. I guess that's cool." #QUOTE#"P-p-p-PLATYPUS. (He's actually an undercover frog.)"

"Oh, I have to warn you, you might have developed a fear of cats. And ketchup. So...good luck out there. What with the phobias and being dead and all."

I once walked in on my sister yelling at her friends, "WHAT IS THIS HUMAN EMOTION YOU CALL FOOD!?" and some of them screaming in fear.

"I SWEAR TO GOD I WAS NOT THREATENING YOUR LADYBUG!!!" Um... yeah...

This Troper once went on a m&a and Japan-themed summer camp. Most of the people there (including the supervisors) happened to be fans of Hetalia. So, I'm not sure whose idea it was, but whenever we assembled somewhere, like before meals, to check if everyone was present, IF everyone was present we would all yell "PASTA!". Now, imagine us in the middle of the town, 40 people (including 3 adults), all yelling "PASTAAAAAA!" on the top of their lungs. I can only guess what the passers-by were thinking (especially considering "pasta" here usually means "paste" as in "toothpaste" and the like). Those were the best 2 weeks of my life.

I want to go back in time and join your summer camp.

"I read way too fast. HEY LOOK, A BUNNY WITH A PANCAKE ON IT'S HEAD! Your defensive barriers are moot, teh castle is mine." I said this whilst playing a game of King of the Castle. Needless to say, I was running out of creative ideas.

In junior high I found myself walking past a group of girls having the following conversation. I can still think of no way that it makes snese for pre-teen girls to ask their parents permision to go out "striping". I'm sure it must have made sense in context. #QUOTE# "I wish my parents would let me strip." #QUOTE# "My parents only let me strip on weekends." #QUOTE# "God, you guys are lucky, my parents won't let me go out stripping at all."

So then I had to run home naked because Old Man McGintess had my pants...