Don't 'Touch My Junk' Joins Viral Lexicon: 4 Other Instant Classics

(Nov. 15) -- Welcome to your 15 minutes of linguistic fame.

When 31-year-old John Tyner protested being frisked at San Diego's airport, he used a phrase that is now sure to be recalled by millions of passengers waiting in line at TSA checkpoints nationwide.

"If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," Tyner told security officials in reference to his genital area. Though certainly not the first person to describe his private parts with a word normally synonymous with trash (see: Kesha's "Tik Tok," if you must), the context of Tyner's warning and the reaction by the TSA are sure keep "touch my junk" alive in the popular vernacular for some time to come.

In an age when most phones and computers are equipped to record nearly every human utterance in real time only to slice, dice and repackage them back out on the Internet, spontaneous commentary can quickly become the stuff of legend. Surge Desk has a look back at some recent turns of phrase that have become cultural markers.

"Don't taze me bro!"
In 2007, University of Florida student Andrew Meyer disrupted a campus lecture being given by Sen. John Kerry. After Meyer refused to leave the microphone, campus police attempted to escort the combative student out of the hall, then forced him to the ground and shot him with a taser as Meyer admonished them not to. His words, and plaintive screams upon receiving the high dose of electric shock, were captured on video and quickly went viral on YouTube.

"Imma let you finish ..."
Nearly two years after Kanye West hopped on stage and interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, West is still trying to live the incident down. The now-famous words uttered during the upstaging, "Imma gonna let you finish ..." have come to mean just the opposite. After all, by the time he was finished with his diatribe, the window for Swift's speech was over, and she could not finish what Kanye had interrupted.

"Double rainbow!"
Has the beauty of the world ever brought you to tears? If so, did you think to capture that moment on your camcorder? When California resident Paul Vazquez happened upon the splendor of a double rainbow outside his home near Yosemite National Park this summer, his ecstatic response became one of the year's most watched clips. At YouTube, the file has been viewed nearly 20 million times.

"Macaca"
It was the YouTube footage that single-handedly sank a promising political career. When Republican George Allen ran for re-election in the United States Senate against Democrat Jim Webb, Allen was trailed by S.R. Sidarth, a camera man employed by the Webb campaign. At a 2006 event in the town of Breaks, Allen pointed out the presence of Sidarth -- who is of Indian ancestry but was born and raised in Virginia -- and said the following. "This fellow here over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name is, he's with my opponent ..." With Sidarth's camera rolling, Allen added, "let's give a welcome to Macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." With the file posted to YouTube, Webb had a perfect campaign ad, all courtesy of his opponent's own remarks. Allen's campaign never recovered.