Meanings
- humorousSpoonerism of nobody's perfect
A. J. circled around to sit next to him on the bench. Like Dave, he wore a bathing suita nd a colorful T-shirt, but A. J.’s shirt said, “Pobody’s Nerfect.”
1982, Scott Pinzon, Splendini!, Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 554 more examples
They may suggest the wearers’ tastes in companionships, such as I’m With Stupid, or, Pobody's Nerfect. Fashion, like T-shirts, inevitably communicates the mood of a unique era.
1979, 1979 LaGrange High School Yearbook, LaGrange, Georgia, United States: LaGrange High School, page 168Oh yes, the throttle is still wide open. You know the rest of this story (Fig. 4‒6). Oh well, pobody’s nerfect. This conclusdes my series of stories about airplanes flying the pilot.
1983, Everett Gentry, “5: Intentional Spins”, in All About Stalls & Spins, TAB Books, →ISBN, page 51Ah, jeez. Oh boy. Yikes. It seems the human culmination of American liberalism lost to a senile (alleged!) rapist game show host. Welp. Pobody’s nerfect, as the old saying goes.
2019 October 15, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker, Virgil Texas, “Libs”, in The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, →ISBN, page 71I’d be lying if I said that getting repeatedly stomped by narrow-minded NPCs wasn’t beginning to wear a little. After all, what has Mister Fibula done to deserve all this hostility? Sure, his unliving state may be an affront to the natural order, but pobody’s nerfect.
2025 April 28, James Nouch, “Searching for True Freedom and High Fashion in Divinity: Original Sins 2 Part 2”, in PC Gamer, number 407, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 119
Origin
Humorous malapropism of nobody's perfect, coined in the 1970s.
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