Screwed up phrases people use

[Excaliber]

So the next time I'm up to my a$$ in alligators trying to drain the swamp (because the Creek rose...) you could say I was 'caught napping'?

[4RE KLR]

I always get a chuckle when the media says they are:

Just going to hunker down here for awhile.

Sounds to me like they should go the bathroom if they need to hunker down for awhile?

[4RE KLR]

OOPs

double post

sorry

[Excaliber]

Looks like Club Cobra has slowed down to a crawl and it's causing double or even triple posts to appear. My last post went up THREE times, I deleted two of them. You can delete a post if your a contributing member, if not, you can only 'edit' and leave for all the world to see your 'double post'. Kind of like wearing your knickers below the knee...

[pasnbyu]

Doesn't anyone realize that Brett's name is NOT pronounced FARV, just because John Madden said it that way first?

F A V R E pronounced fav-reh

[pasnbyu]

How about de je vous, all over again

[bomelia]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

Looks like Club Cobra has slowed down to a crawl and it's causing double or even triple posts to appear. My last post went up THREE times, I deleted two of them. You can delete a post if your a contributing member, if not, you can only 'edit' and leave for all the world to see your 'double post'. Kind of like wearing your knickers below the knee...

well, six and one half dozen or the other...

[4RE KLR]

MIKE

LOL I got a good chuckle out of that,

Thanks

[Ron61]

How about the term Redneck. How many actually know how it came about. And no, not from Mike. I saw it in the Hillbillies show that Billy Ray Cyrus narrated and that was the first time I knew exactly how it came into being.

Ron

[DougD]

Or when Prez Bush says "nucular" when he means "nuclear". And it's even worse when you think how many times his handlers have had him practice.......

Or "for Pete's sake" - who's Pete?

[trularin]

While writing I discovered the origins of two interesting things I used.

First, SH!T is an acronym from the sides of crates. On ships that carried supplies to colonies, the top covers were leaky and in some cased the crates got wet.

Those crates that carried fertilizer began to ferment and emitted methane gas. Accounts of the night watch blowing the ship up while making his rounds forced those crates with fertilizer to be shipped closed to the top hatches. Hence the letters Store High In Transit.

The other was the expression using the hand of "giving the bird" or "giving the finger".

The earliest accounts were from the English to the French. It seems the French did two things that were considered "very bad". Take this as other than death.

They removed the crest ring of their opponent which, at the time, was very bad. Many young men of nobility went to war under the idea of glory ( you may add any number of other reasons you want here ). It was typical to give the son a ring with the family crest on it should he fall in battle. The French cut off the finger with the ring.

And, the French hated the English Long bowmen, very deadly. so, to ruin their aim, they would remove the finger used for alignment.

Both has been document as the reason why flipping some the bird was considered bad.

I personally believe the ring finger theory.

[trularin]

While writing I discovered the origins of two interesting things I used.

First, SH!T is an acronym from the sides of crates. On ships that carried supplies to colonies, the top covers were leaky and in some cased the crates got wet.

Those crates that carried fertilizer began to ferment and emitted methane gas. Accounts of the night watch blowing the ship up while making his rounds forced those crates with fertilizer to be shipped closed to the top hatches. Hence the letters Store High In Transit.

The other was the expression using the hand of "giving the bird" or "giving the finger".

The earliest accounts were from the English to the French. It seems the French did two things that were considered "very bad". Take this as other than death.

They removed the crest ring of their opponent which, at the time, was very bad. Many young men of nobility went to war under the idea of glory ( you may add any number of other reasons you want here ). It was typical to give the son a ring with the family crest on it should he fall in battle. The French cut off the finger with the ring.

And, the French hated the English Long bowmen, very deadly. so, to ruin their aim, they would remove the finger used for alignment.

Both has been document as the reason why flipping some the bird was considered bad.

I personally believe the ring finger theory.

[Ron61]

For Crying Out Loud. I use this because it says Tru has posted to this thread and I can't see it, but when I opened this box to post I see a double post by him.

Ron

[trularin]

Dang, I tried to post three times...did not take it.

Now I see it did it twice.

RON!!!!

[Ron61]

Tru,

Something that you did messed the thread up. The only way I could see your posts was when I went to post to the thread and then I couldn't even come back and see mine. Now that you have posted again, I have no problem seeing the last posts.

Ron

[VRM]

One of my personal pet peeves is when people use irregardless. It's not even a word.
It should be 'regardless'.

Another interesting one is nauseous. The original meaning was that if you are nauseous you will make other people sick. If you feel nauseated then something nauseous had made you feel that way. I think that because so many people have used it incorrectly that it has finally become the proper way to use it.

Steve

[Ron61]

Steve,

When I was a kid Ain't wasn't considered a word. Of course there were only about 8 words then anyway. But now it is in the dictionary.

Ron

[1ntCobra]

Originally Posted by trularin

While writing I discovered the origins of two interesting things I used.

First, SH!T is an acronym from the sides of crates. On ships that carried supplies to colonies, the top covers were leaky and in some cased the crates got wet.

Those crates that carried fertilizer began to ferment and emitted methane gas. Accounts of the night watch blowing the ship up while making his rounds forced those crates with fertilizer to be shipped closed to the top hatches. Hence the letters Store High In Transit.

The other was the expression using the hand of "giving the bird" or "giving the finger".

The earliest accounts were from the English to the French. It seems the French did two things that were considered "very bad". Take this as other than death.

They removed the crest ring of their opponent which, at the time, was very bad. Many young men of nobility went to war under the idea of glory ( you may add any number of other reasons you want here ). It was typical to give the son a ring with the family crest on it should he fall in battle. The French cut off the finger with the ring.

And, the French hated the English Long bowmen, very deadly. so, to ruin their aim, they would remove the finger used for alignment.

Both has been document as the reason why flipping some the bird was considered bad.

I personally believe the ring finger theory.

I received a chain email a while ago (you know you should believe everything you read from the internet), that was along the same lines of the English long bowmen versus the French, but it had another piece of information that said the English would not only flip the bird but call out "pluck you" at the same time. Which apparently means that using the term "f*** you" is completely wrong when flipping the bird. After all when you are angry at someone, wouldn't you rather threaten that them you want to shoot them with your long bow rather than yelling at them about sex?

[1ntCobra]

Years ago, I had someone ask me to give him "an order of magnitude estimate". And I replied, "Wow that's the first time anyone has ever asked me for an estimate where I could be off by a factor of 10!" And of course he said, no "an order of magnitude estimate" is just a commonly used term for a rough estimate. I told him he was wrong and perhaps he should just use "rough estimate" instead of misusing mathematical concepts that he was unfamiliar with.

[trularin]

As I recall "order of magnitude" was relative to the base. So I think you are right.

I catch the use of irregardless by other people, but say nothing.

I find my editor catching me on switched words. It is a matter of typing and I overlook it when I read. Then, when I turn the document/manuscript or article to the editor, she hands it back, "dripping blood".

And, I forgot to mention, the English used to raise the single finger with their family crest to the French meaning, "my family is against you."

Interesting.