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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Edited Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:36 PM "I could tell ya, but I'd have to kill ya" Please everyone stop. It doesn't even work in the "I know this is a cheesy line and that's why I'm using it which makes it funny again because it's so lame" sense. There was another I had heard a week or so ago which gave me the thread idea, but I can't remember it now. —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM "I was born ready." Used to great effect in Ocean's 13. "Hot enough for ya?"
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:41 PM "I was born ready." Used to great effect in Ocean's 13. - TF Yes and yes. —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:44 PM "What can I do you for?" "I'm not working with anyone who hasn't got a test." —MajandraFan |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:47 PM "What can I do you for?" — MajandraFan Which brings to mind the equally annoying "Anywho..." —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Edited Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:49 PM "I could tell ya, but I'd have to kill ya" Some guy used this expression in his presentation in our intercultural class. He did his food presentation on fried chicken and said that he couldn't give us his grandma's recipe. lulz —adams_babymomma |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Edited Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:54 PM He did his food presentation on fried chicken... - ABM Let me guess, he's Jewish...no, Asian!! - Adam Carolla —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 4:55 PM "Hot enough for ya?" really pisses me off. I know I mentioned it already, but I just have to mention it again. I don't even understand why it would ever be funny, and the fact that it still exists is baffling and upsetting. There are some words and phrases that, while innocuous in and of themselves, tend to be overused by certain people to the extent that you want to stab them in the face. "Generally" is a good example. I knew an entire family that used the word "generally" at least every other sentence. Another good example is "to be perfectly honest." My uncle (step-grandma's son) says this constantly. And for no reason. "To be perfectly honest, I don't know." What's the logic in adding four extra words to every statement, that mean nothing? Are you lying to me whenever you don't say it? ugh. —TortillaFactory |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:04 PM Equally overused as "generally," is "basically."
MOAR:
"nomesayin'?" ["Do you know what I'm saying?"] "The proof is in the pudding." Not only is this one overused, it is incorrect. The correct expression is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." "closure" There're a few more that are right on the tip of my brain, but I can't call them all the way up. Maybe later. _________________________________________________ I used to be SEVERELY annoyed by the constant, deliberate misspelling "teh." In large part, we have plurry to thank for this not bothering me anymore (at least not here at TLC). It's just so funny to me when he does it, for some reason. I'm guessing it would probably still bug me at other sites, from different people. —Dusty TheHick |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:11 PM "The proof is in the pudding." Not only is this one overused, it is incorrect. The correct expression is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." - Dusty I always thought the real expression was "the proof is in the putting" and was just distorted at some point to pudding and it stuck. I have learned something today. —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:13 PM "The proof is in the pudding." Not only is this one overused, it is incorrect. The correct expression is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Finally, an explanation for this one. How did the bastardized version even get started? It makes zero sense. Similarly, I hate the nonsensical "could care less." —TortillaFactory |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:16 PM Yeah, it's supposed to be "COULDN'T care less."
I'd kinda like an explanation for "a month of Sundays."
One thing that gives me a chuckle at my own expense is that I used to think "a tough road aho" was "a tough row to hoe," which kinda also makes sense, but still...
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:18 PM I still prefer to believe it's the latter. I hear "couldn't care less" about as often as "could care less," and it breaks my heart that people can't figure out that THEY MEAN THE OPPOSITE OF EACH OTHER AND ONE OF THEM IS CLEARLY NOT WHAT YOU MEANT TO SAY KTHX. One expression I've only fully understood in brief flashes is "the exception that proves the rule." I once had it figured out with a good example. I should have written it down. —TortillaFactory |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Edited Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:27 PM ^ Too funny, I've done the exact same thing. I'll nail it down someday. —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:36 PM "a month of sundays" is the same as "once in a blue moon". i think.
maybe it means going to church a lot. —MajandraFan |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Edited Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:49 PM I caught myself saying "okie-dokie" a few times at school the other day, and it needs to stop. —chix0r |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Edited Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 6:04 PM A girl I used to work with would say both "okey-dokey smokey" and "later gator" about 10 or 12 times a day. It was truly cruel and unusual punishment. —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 6:00 PM I know a couple of girls from the animation class who like to say "okey-pokey." —Yog-Laithoth |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 6:29 PM "You're mother's a whore" —pookie |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 7:44 PM "Don't hate the player, hate the game." Football related:
I hate, hate, HATE when announcers start in with the "He's really just having fun out there" angle. This is usually reserved for quarterbacks (like Brett Favre...a lot) and, shockingly, it's a view espoused when the team with player having fun is winning handily. Not only is it inferred that the score has nothing to do with the enjoyment factor, that it's just an unrelated coincidence to the fact that the guy is enjoying himself playing a game he loves, but they often make it seem like the team is winning because he's having fun. —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM There's this asian guy that comes into my work and says "Sounds like a plan" after everything anyone says. —hash-is-gay |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM month of Sundays — Dusty TheHick I can't say that I've heard this expression in any way. Is it a northeast thing? —Beat It! |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 8:20 PM about half of these i have never heard. —foob2011 |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 9:01 PM "I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you." Hate that one. You guys ever heard this one? "I love (whoever) so much. I love all his work. I love everything he does. I could listen to him read the phone book." I hear this on tv all the time. It's usually when one person is praising someone he worked with. I don't know who first said that. I think it's a fairly new expression. Every time I hear it I wish I could kick the person in the face. —acm323 |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 9:07 PM drop trou drop trou. —bguirk |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 9:30 PM "Don't hate the player, hate the game." -Repeat It!
Seeing that prompted me to spend more time than I'd care to admit, searching for this.
It would very definitely fall near the top of my list of my ten favorite text-only posts of my own.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 9:33 PM "Don't hate the player, hate the game." "I'm against the war, but I support the troops." —MajandraFan |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Edited Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 9:36 PM you're a player-hater. "I'm against the war, but I support the troops." this one grates on me--as if "the troops" were this monolithic composite person. The armed forces are full of douchebags, people who were lied to by their recruiters, decent folk, war mongers and whatever. —bguirk |
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Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 9:51 PM Yeah, but still... —acm323 |
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Monday, April 7, 2008 at 8:06 AM I do apologize instead of I apologize Thanks much or thank you much "go ahead" before things that you are going to do It is what is is. —perulovesyou |
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Monday, April 7, 2008 at 1:44 PM "I'm a Christian" as a modifier to a following statement —foob2011 |
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Monday, April 7, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Edited Monday, April 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM "I speak my mind, and some people can't handle that." "I hate fake people."  ?
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Monday, April 7, 2008 at 2:50 PM lotta myspace people say "i love to laugh, i love to have fun" NO FUCKIN SHIT! EVERYBODY DOES! —000 |
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Monday, April 7, 2008 at 3:33 PM As long as we're making fun of myspace cliches, "I like to party." I really hope the usage of "party" as a verb starts to work its way out. because I'm getting really sick of it. —TortillaFactory |
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Monday, April 7, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Edited Monday, April 7, 2008 at 4:53 PM I'm ready to declare war on the misuse of "way." I went on the warpath with someone over this recently, like way a lot. —bguirk |
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Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Edited Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7:36 PM I really hope the usage of "party" as a verb starts to work its way out. because I'm getting really sick of it. —TortillaFactory
Hell, I've BEEN sick of it for about 20 years. Sadly, it doesn't look like this one's going away any time soon.
_____________________________________________________ "I'm a Christian" as a modifier to a following statement —foob2011
...or "I'm a mom/dad/father/mother/parent," used the same way.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 6:45 PM "TPFKATBJ" agreed —mandee |
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 7:31 PM I know this thread is about expressions, and not grammatical issues, but I have to say this:
I fucking HATE when people idjits use a past participle, when the standard past tense should be used.
eg: "I had put it away," when "I put it away" is correct. —Dusty TheHick |
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Edited Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 9:01 PM "TPFKATBJ" "Oh no u didn't!" by which, I mean that one needs to go —anobody |
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 9:08 PM For using "hit me up," he should be pubically flogged.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 7:03 PM "It's all good."
"kickin' it"
"...for the simple fact that..." And now, here are a few that, thankfully, seem to have largely faded away: "Talk to the hand." "Don't go there." "Dusty sucks."
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 7:30 PM "Shit rolls downhill" and "you don't shit where you eat". Adam did a tirade on these once that was pretty funny. —doingdoingdoing |
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 7:37 PM
Edited Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 7:37 PM "...woke up on the wrong side of the bed..."
"...got off on the wrong foot..."
"Next, on American Idol..." —Dusty TheHick |
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 9:39 PM "I like boobs." —bguirk |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 12:59 AM I've always liked: "you don't shit where you eat." I'm keeping it. —acm323 |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 1:18 AM "Contrary to popular opinion..."
"Working hard, or hardly working?"
I consider this one to be "funny because it's so lame."
and I snicker when people think they're so slick by saying it. —HocusPocus |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 2:13 AM Irregardless ... —pookie |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 8:51 AM i always say "working hard or hardly working" does this make me lame? —lexieho |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 9:04 AM "are you walking the dog or is the dog walking you." Unless the person who said it is in their 80's I tend to give them an over the top fake laugh that makes everyone uncomfortable. —bguirk |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 9:09 AM "I tend to give them an over the top fake laugh that makes everyone uncomfortable." —bguirk I love it! —pookie |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM when i worked for environment maryland/human rights campaign and i was walking around in the rain, people would either say "is it wet enough out there for you" or "why are you doing this on such a rainy day" as if i got to choose the days that i worked. after awhile, i stopped with the fake laugh and just glared at them. —mandee |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 4:09 PM "you know" appended to the beginning or end of a sentence.
It signals that the sentence will probably be an insulting diatribe.
They say "you know" as though my lack of knowledge makes me ignorant rather than what they're saying untrue, or that I do actually know and am just lying to try and prove a point.
No I don't know, how could I possibly know? —MajandraFan |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Edited Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 4:41 PM i don't know if anyone has mentioned these: * think outside the box * be proactive * don't paint me with that brush * using the word "amazing" as the be-all, end-all adjective * be-all * end-all —pookie |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 7:53 PM I hated this thread at first, but I've turned the corner on it. —ZT Spice |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 7:56 PM * I've turned the corner on it. —bguirk |
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Friday, April 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM "ancient chinese secret" "i aint gonna lie"
So am I to assume that you normally WOULD lie to me? —whoisnumbaone |
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Friday, April 11, 2008 at 3:41 PM Gentlemen....and I use that term loosely. —suckafish |
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Friday, April 11, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Edited Friday, April 11, 2008 at 5:32 PM ^ anything of that nature, really. "we're on the pill"
"we're trying to get pregnant" ugh no you're not. —TortillaFactory |
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Friday, April 11, 2008 at 9:03 PM "What would you recommend?" As a waiter, I personally DESPISE this question/expression. OBVIOUSLY people are going to like/dislike certain things and it drives me NUTS when people are so incredibly indecisive they need ME to recommend something. The other thing i hate is when they ask me if something is good, and I've never had it before. Do they really thing because I work there, I've tried every damn thing on the menu? Not a chance. Make up your fucking mind, and get a spine. Make some decisions. —andrewwagner777 |
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Friday, April 11, 2008 at 10:03 PM ^ same thing when I worked with DVDs I don't know what you want to watch, and I will not tell you whether to spend your $20 on The Dukes of Hazzard or Mr. and Mrs. Smith. ok? ok. —TortillaFactory |
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 2:39 AM
Edited Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 2:40 AM people are so incredibly indecisive they need ME to recommend something. dude sometimes i get so caught up in conversaation and drinking that I dont even look at the menu. The when she comes I say, "whats everyones favorite? what do u reccomend? i like fish, whats ur best fish?" anyways, its not that im indecisive, its that I want soemthign random to "surprise" me.
Still think thats fucked up?
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 12:57 PM Okay if you give me direction like THAT [what's your best fish] I can help you, cause then at least I have it narrowed down for 4-5 choices, but if you ask me, having never met you before, what I'd expect you to like, you're a fucking loser. —andrewwagner777 |
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 2:40 PM sometimes ill say "i want somehting spicy, maybe with some shrimp? what do you have?" —whoisnumbaone |
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM "Just so you know..."
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"God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," especially when said with the usual thick backwoods shit-ass accent (I guess the best way to describe it is a combination of Dr. Phil and a drunk 20-something with Down's Syndrome). —Dusty TheHick |
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 5:20 PM My boss uses "FYI" in emails constantly. He would never say "for your information" IRL and neither would anyone else who uses it. To be fair, he's ESL so whatever. I just hate it when he uses it like a complete sentence. "I had to delete it. FYI." It doesn't really make any sense if you say it out loud. —TortillaFactory |
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 9:53 AM Swinging for the fences. Pooping for the jenkem. —ZT Spice |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 2:09 PM whenever i say something someone doesn't hear and they respond with "do what?" i tend to get very angry.
i usually come back with something like, "i didn't ask you to do anything, asshole. why assume i did?" —plurry |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 2:13 PM because you're a demanding hardass who likes to boss people around? just guessing. —bguirk |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Edited Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM ^nah. not lil ol' me. here is another: if you listen for it, when a co-dependent wants to know if you need/want help will say, "want me to help". (sans question mark)
there's no question there, it's that they want you to need them. the expression itself is fine, it's all in the way it's inflected. —plurry |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 3:44 PM "i didn't ask you to do anything, asshole. why assume i did?" —plurry Do what now? —whoisnumbaone |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 6:08 PM You haven't been gimped nearly enough recently. —ZT Spice |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 7:41 PM whenever i say something someone doesn't hear and they respond with "do what?" i tend to get very angry.
I hate this one, too...especially since it's usually said with a hick accent (and we all know how much I LOVE hicks). I first noticed it around 1982, when my family moved from Baltimore to Delmarva. Coincidence? I think not.
Another one I hate, which is ALSO usually said with a hick accent (be it rural OR urban hick), is "take/took and," before the verb in nearly ever statement these idiots make. e.g: "Ah dint know whut tahm mah huzzbin was cummin' home fer dinner, so ah took and made dinner at 'round fourclock." —Dusty TheHick |
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 7:47 PM when people say 'i think so' for no reason. my roommate does that and it just doesn't make sense. if i say 'i have to go to the bathroom', she'd say 'i think so'. —mandee |
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