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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/3/2009 1:44:07 AM
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rockominal
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I could care less ........... does that mean a person really cares a lot?
I wondered about that one as well and just assumed that everyone misquoted the original saying. Not that I know there was an original saying , but just reasoning that one out, so that " I couldn't care less."
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/3/2009 2:16:33 AM
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Son of a gun - After sailors had crossed the Atlantic to the West Indies, they would take the native women on board the ship and have their way with them in between the cannons.
Hmm. Something tells me that no native women from any point in human history are quite that easy without being given some sort of promises or gold ( which these guys had) and a very good grade of alcohol, which these guys had the best grade of rum in the world.
Anyways, speaking of preposterous, I saw an excellent movie on AMC, which you can see at any time actualy: Nevada Smith the movie
and Nevada goes on a spree of revenge but gets put into prison in the process. A prison very similar to the one with Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke. A toal bummer except that the prisoners were allowed guest "visitation" from these women that worked out in the field. So Steve McQueen is in the prison bed and a few better than average looking female babes actually go in there and get in bed with these guys. Now I know I'm no Steve McQueen, and believe me when I was a kid and watched some of his movies which I still do and wished I was a cool as him, you'd figure that EVEN THEN, he manages with very little effort to have Suzanne Pleshette get in the bed with him, and do this quite willingly and happily at the same time.
Well, I don't know. I guess somewhere along the road I missed the bus, or perhaps I was in the water and missed the proverbial boat.
Anyways, the movie had a tragic series of events concerning her and didn't turn out the way I would have liked. The way I would have liked is to just stay there in prison and have Suzanne Pleshette come over every week or every other week, which could have certainly been done, as per this movie.
Sorry to change the subject but I rather like my little segue here.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/3/2009 8:15:37 AM
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I could care less ........... does that mean a person really cares a lot?
I wondered about that one as well and just assumed that everyone misquoted the original saying. Not that I know there was an original saying , but just reasoning that one out, so that " I couldn't care less."
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Ding ding ding!
Actually, the current "I could care less" could make sense if you consider it extremely sarcastic.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/3/2009 8:17:12 AM
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Hey! The 'image' in the post above actually showed up in my preview pane when I quoted rockominal. Interesting, huh?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/3/2009 4:18:53 PM
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rockominal
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Hey! The 'image' in the post above actually showed up in my preview pane when I quoted rockominal. Interesting, huh?
I know. It does that sometimes; sometimes not. So far Geocities is allowing the remote link stuff but now, they're threatening to close down. Thanks for bringing that up because now, I must move my cool "pink" gif signature somewhere's else. That will most likely be the British Lycos server I've been using for quite awhile since Bravehost doesn't allow remote linking.
I see what you mean by the extreme sarcasm thing in that if indeed "I could care less" is the original saying that it would come across that way.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/8/2009 9:21:59 AM
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Head over heels in love. Isn't your head over your heels anyway?
Could it be short for 'head over heels over head over heels over head over heels'...IOW, cartwheels?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/8/2009 9:28:01 AM
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"Penny for your thoughts" like who deteremined the monetary value of thoughts and why hasn't it kept pace with inflation?
Why? Because man's thoughts have not kept pace with sanity.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/8/2009 9:52:49 AM
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"Penny for your thoughts" like who deteremined the monetary value of thoughts and why hasn't it kept pace with inflation?
Reminds me of a song from the 80's: A Penny For Your Thoughts, A nickel for your kiss, and a dime if you tell me that you love me.
...and a quarter if you rub the burr on grandma Nora's heel.
(If you don't get it, pay close attention next time you watch 'Christmas Vacation' on TV this Christmas.)
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/8/2009 10:03:10 AM
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How about, "This is the best thing sliced bread?"
I prefer the lesser used "This is the best thing since individually wrapped, sandwich sized, slices of imitation cheese."
Don't you?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/8/2009 10:10:49 AM
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"Hot water heater"
If it's already hot, why do I need a heater for it?
I've always wondered how they know "it's a hundred in the shade and there ain't no shade" if there's no shade. That one has kept me tossing on my bed many a sleepless night.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/8/2009 10:20:08 AM
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"Nose out of joint"
Noses do not have joints...
Hey, if you can get your 'butt in a sling' then you can get your 'nose out of joint'.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/8/2009 10:26:05 AM
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Seems to be if you wanted to control a bull, you'd take hold of something else other than his horns.
And you think he was angry before?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/9/2009 7:41:27 PM
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Love this Hebrew one: when the Bible is telling about G-d being angry, it sometimes says that His nose got hot.
His eye is on the sparrow.
I am the apple of His eye.
David was protected under the shadow of His wings.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/11/2009 10:18:07 AM
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It don't make me no nevermind.
Slicker 'n scum off a Louisiana swamp. (Never been to Louisana)
Colder than [that eternal place that is supposed to be on fire]
Colder than a well digger's [backside]
You're stroking me (lying to me, kidding me)
Up your nose with a rubber hose. (alternate: ...yellow hose.)
Keep your nose to the grindstone.
In the cat bird seat.
It beats a sharp stick in the eye. (that one I kinda get)
Beat you like a red headed step child.
Ugly on a monkey
500 lbs of sin on a popsicle stick
And there are a bunch my grandad used commonly that there is no way I could clean up enough to post without violating a TOS.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/11/2009 10:22:47 AM
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Tie the knot (this probably has some cultural ceremonial signifigance) That is from the celtic wedding ceremony where the bride and groom have their hands tied together with a ribbon. (my oldest daugher had that done at her wedding)quote:
x,y,z eXamine Your Zipper
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/11/2009 7:03:26 PM
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How many times have we said something like, "That thing is pretty ugly"?
What does that mean, pretty ugly?
Is that like something being 'fat slim', or 'tall short'?
Would you be flattered if I said you were ugly pretty? Prolly not.
And if that isn't enough to fluster a person, I'm still trying to figure out why everybody's phone number on TV shows start with 555-. But I suppose that's another thread...
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/11/2009 8:36:20 PM
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And if that isn't enough to fluster a person, I'm still trying to figure out why everybody's phone number on TV shows start with 555-. But I suppose that's another thread...
This one I know. It's an industry standard, so that no "real" numbers are said accidentally. There is no real "555".
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/12/2009 2:23:55 AM
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And if that isn't enough to fluster a person, I'm still trying to figure out why everybody's phone number on TV shows start with 555-. But I suppose that's another thread...
This one I know. It's an industry standard, so that no "real" numbers are said accidentally. There is no real "555".
Aww shucks finally one that I knew and you beat me to it. LOL
Hmm... beat me to it , guess thats another one.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/16/2009 10:55:16 AM
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Was the phrase the whole nine yards given yet?
The bottom line
More fun than a barrel of monkeys
Up the wazoo
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/16/2009 2:13:44 PM
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The proof is in the pudding.
hmmm.... I don't know where that one came from either. The only thing that better be in my pudding is chocolate..... and the other stuff that belongs in there.
I think that it may have come from a 1980's TV commercial.
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How many times have we said something like, "That thing is pretty ugly"?
What does that mean, pretty ugly?
Its a negative, so it means that things are quite ugly instead.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/16/2009 2:23:58 PM
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I think in the case of "pretty ugly", pretty means very, as in "that was pretty awful."
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/16/2009 9:21:47 PM
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Nick_Drake
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And if that isn't enough to fluster a person, I'm still trying to figure out why everybody's phone number on TV shows start with 555-. But I suppose that's another thread...
This one I know. It's an industry standard, so that no "real" numbers are said accidentally. There is no real "555".
I thought '555' was a New York City exchange.
That '80's song just wouldn't have been the same if they'd done it like the TV shows...
"five, five, five, five, three, 'o', ni-e-ine"
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/16/2009 9:29:30 PM
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Nick_Drake
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Was the phrase the whole nine yards given yet?
I don't think so, but it makes me think of 'the whole enchilada'. Are enchiladas really an appropriate food to express the entirety of something?
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The bottom line
More fun than a barrel of monkeys
Up the wazoo
How about 'butt load'? After many hours of careful consideration, and sleepless nights, I have come to the conclusion that it somehow morphed from the popular '90's phrase 'boat load'.
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