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Common saying that far too many people get wrong.

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StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
Its "Old wives tale" NOT "Old wise tale" you fucking illiterate asshat. Every time I hear someone say "Old Wise tale" I want to punch them in the scrotum as hard as I can to ensure they dont have children, so that they cant teach said children colloquialisms incorrectly.

I mean, how does "Old Wise Tale" even make sense? There is nothing 'wise' about them, because they are popular misconceptions. Ugg.
 
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ArcadeStickMonk

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Couldn't care less

And not just because of it's recent GAF appearance


Heh, I do use irregardless, though I know it's wrong. Makes me feel like a big man.
 
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Lemurnator

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ArcadeStickMonk said:
Couldn't care less

And not just because of it's recent GAF appearance


Heh, I do use irregardless, though I know it's wrong. Makes me feel like a big man.
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If you fool me once, shame... shame on you.

Fool me...

Foo...

If you fool me once you can't get fooled again!
 
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Bobety

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Internet wise it pisses me off when people say "LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL" I mean what the fuck are you trying to say?? LAUGH OUT LOUD OUT LOUD OUT LOUD OUT LOUD OUT LOUD
 
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StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
ArcadeStickMonk said:
To hell with this thread.
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I would suggest you quit while you are ahead.. but well, you were never there. Thanks for playing though. :lol
 
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Loki

Count of Concision
Lemurnator said:
If you fool me once, shame... shame on you.

Fool me...

Foo...

If you fool me once you can't get fooled again!
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:lol

That's my favorite Bush gaffe of all time. :)
 
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JoshuaJSlone

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Lemurnator said:
If you fool me once, shame... shame on you.

Fool me...

Foo...

If you fool me once you can't get fooled again!
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Please don't butcher the butchering! :D

43 said:
There's an old saying in Tennessee; I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says 'Fool me once... shame on... shame on you.' *gesture with hand in the air* 'Ifoolme can't get fooled again!'
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Loki

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My contribution:

"For all intensive purposes."


What about mild and/or moderate purposes? What do we use then? :D
 
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Miguel

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Bobety said:
Internet wise it pisses me off when people say "LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL" I mean what the fuck are you trying to say?? LAUGH OUT LOUD OUT LOUD OUT LOUD OUT LOUD OUT LOUD
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Laugh out loud on line over little oval looking oysters living only like overpaid losers.
 
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Fatalah

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well, what's worse is that my friend talks like a robot online.

=

well, what is worse is that my friend talks like he is a robot while he is online.
 
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Morbo

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It always grates a little when people say "literally" when speaking figuratively or "over-exaggerate".

Miguel said:
Laugh out loud on line over little oval looking oysters living only like overpaid losers.
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So obvious when it's spelled out in black and white.
 
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miyuru

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ToxicAdam said:
"It's cold as hell"
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Nah that's different, because they're not referring literally to hell.

"It's fucking cold!"

What does that mean? It's as cold as when I'm fucking someone? Same diff.
 
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ToxicAdam

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miyuru said:
Nah that's different, because they're not referring literally to hell.

"It's fucking cold!"

What does that mean? It's as cold as when I'm fucking someone? Same diff.
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I failed. :(

Let me try again.


"Bleed like a stuffed pig"
 
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Loki

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scola said:
I hate when people say "for all intensive purposes"

Its "intents and"... motherfucker
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Trying to steal my thunder, eh? Well it's no use!

Loki said:
My contribution:

"For all intensive purposes."


What about mild and/or moderate purposes? What do we use then? :D
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scola: pwned ;) :D
 
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carmello

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"Toe the line" is often written as "Tow the line".

Another is "the hammer and the anvil". The suggestion is that the anvil feels the brunt of the force, however the practicality of the matter is such that the anvil will, at length, cause the hammer to break.

I also know of people who use the term "Phased" rather than "Fazed".

Having said the above, I'd happily admit to gaffes written and uttered over my lifetime, too numerable to draw any particular example to mind, I grant :)
 
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karasu

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I'll just list dumb ones. Only because they're dumb as fuck.

"The proof is in the pudding."

"Don't hate the play , hate the game"
 
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scorcho

testicles on a cold fall morning
"i could care less" always sounded wrong to me. shouldn't it be "i couldn't care less", since, you know, you really couldn't care much at all over the rampant poverty, death and famine in the world.

saying 'i could care less' means that you actually do care.
 
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drohne

hyperbolically metafictive
carmello said:
Having said the above, I'd happily admit to gaffes written and uttered over my lifetime, too numerable to draw any particular example to mind, I grant :)
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"numerable" means "countable." you're presumably looking for "innumerable." :D

i too constantly misuse words and mangle idiomatic expressions. it's something you can refine away, though. i'm working at it.
 
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Hollywood

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Who the fuck says 'Old wise tale'? :lol

Damn I've always known it as 'Old wives tale'.

I remember a bit by George Carlin on a lot of stupid fucking sayings. One thing that's stupid as fuck that he went off on in standup once, is the saying 'near miss'. WTF? Think about it. If you're on a plane and you almost hit another one, people are like 'whoa that was a near miss'. It wasn't a fucking near miss, it was a near hit! If it was a near miss you would have hit the fucking thing.

This is the perfect thread for George Carlin stand up comedy. Stupid shit like this does hurt my head.
 
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Loki

Count of Concision
drohne said:
i too constantly misuse words and mangle idiomatic expressions. it's something you can refine away, though. i'm working at it.
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drohne: master of self-deprecating wit, yet with no good reason to be so modest. ;)
 
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carmello

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drohne said:
"numerable" means "countable." you're presumably looking for "innumerable." :D

i too constantly misuse words and mangle idiomatic expressions. it's something you can refine away, though. i'm working at it.
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Owned! am I! ;p

Thankfully I admitted to my insipidness, otherwise I'd look quite the fool - almost [Homer]an April fool, as it were.[/Homer]
 
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drohne

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dude, you've never heard me speak. i can't exercise the same control over my speech that i do over even my casual writing. i can think of a couple instances in which i've misused a word in the context of a remark other people found clever, at which point people started repeating the remark, with the solecism intact, and attributing it to me. i never know whether to point out the error and look foolish, or allow the error to perpetuate and risk looking more foolish. there was such a misuse of "tendentious" that will likely dog me to my grave. :/
 
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Hollywood

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Kramer: No, no it's Statue of limitations!
Jerry: What? Where do you get statue? There's an actual statue out there of limitations?

:lol

Or something like that ... reminds me of that episode.
 
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Loki

Count of Concision
drohne said:
dude, you've never heard me speak. i can't exercise the same control over my speech that i do over even my casual writing. i can think of a couple instances in which i've misused a word in the context of a remark other people found clever, at which point people started repeating the remark, with the solecism intact, and attributing it to me. i never know whether to point out the error and look foolish, or allow the error to perpetuate and risk looking more foolish. there was such a misuse of "tendentious" that will likely dog me to my grave. :/
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Well, sucks to be you then. ;) :D

Usually, being sober helps reduce the occurrence of said malaprops. ;)
 
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JoshuaJSlone

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Hollywood said:
Kramer: No, no it's Statue of limitations!
Jerry: What? Where do you get statue? There's an actual statue out there of limitations?

:lol

Or something like that ... reminds me of that episode.
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Google said:
"Isn't there like a statue of limitations on that?"
"Statute."
"What?"
"Statute of limitations. It's not a statue."
"No, it's statue."
"Fine, it's a sculpture of limitations."
- Kramer and Jerry, in "The Cafe"
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Alex Anderson

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It gets on my nerves when my mom says "FOR GOD SAKES!"

1. I'm usually already annoyed with her when she says it.
2. It's "For God's sake."
3. It reminds me of her disappointment in me for not believing in the invisible being that she does.
 
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CavemanLawyer

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Something in the instance of...

"I've driven down this road so many times it is not even funny."

So the first couple of times it was funny?
 
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Blackie

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Fresh Prince said:
I thought that too. I though he was saying something about the war in Iraq or something.
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Make that tres hombres fooled. I actually read the first post in a daze of exhaustion (2:14 am) and thought it was about Common rapping "old wise tale" instead of the real saying.
 
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