Phrases people don't say correctly — Page 2

Sueleen - LOL That's the best one I've ever heard. I hope I can use it someday.

Dollypop - Completely agree with the nookyooler comment. It drives me nuts every time he says it and makes me embarassed that he's the leader of our country.

Another one that grates my nerves - real-uh-tor

The word is realtor - two syllables, nothing between the l and the t

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i think this board needs a bit more rubbing be it done badly or not.

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Hey 3rd row -- everyone knows IRREGARDLESS is wrong -- it's IRREGARDLESSS-LY!

Febuary.

'Nuff said.

You were taught that "a Paris Island" what? Please read more than just the cover of your grammar book before weighing in on that topic.

(Your little dig might sting a teeny bit if I'd ever actually seen you land a joke on this site. Once.)

P.S. If you're going to go back and correct your mistakes with the edit button, try to get them all.

Hint: "in correct" is not two words.

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Updated On: 1/19/04 at 05:58 PM

That doesn't even make sense. But at least it made you LOL, and really, your ability to make yourself LOL is really something to see.

Also, you might want to look up the word "dictionary" in your "dictionery."

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I hate to come between friends, you should excuse the expression, but Namo's stated yen for Head mix in the on-the-edge-of-my-seat "how does Idina do it" thread reveals him as a man with real Bon vivant gravitas.

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Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:12 PM

Namo wouldn't know bon vivant if it hit him in the gravitas.

Cheers!

Bulldog.

Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:13 PM

"Namo wouldn't know bon vivant if it hit in in the gravitas."

What? Again, your jokes just don't make sense. Are you so agitated that you're stuttering now? Calm down! Life is short. Enjoy! (Insert Bulldog-brand LOL here.) Smiley face.

Meanwhile, back to the thread, I too have heard "flustrated" and "fustrated." The first one makes sense as a hybrid word. The second, I'm not so sure.

There are also people who put a "t" on the end when prouncing the word "across." That's a cute one.

Sueleen, Pullet Surprise is GENIUS. I had a Jewish acupuncturist who thought well into her adulthood that the phrase "up to par" was a one word Yiddishism: "uptahpar." As in, "Those lox weren't uptahpar."

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Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:15 PM

Then ax her about that and stop being such as jackask.

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You are just so clever Namo.

I just don't know what we're going to do with you.

How can such cleverness and wit and talent for living be contained in one thoughtful, likeable, socialable, kind, considerate, and responsive person. I can't add the word good-looking as I've no idea what you look like. And that causes some concern. You mentioned in another thread that you swing, and, well, monkeys swing too. So maybe we'll leave good-looking out this go around.

Keep those bon mots flying. You are just too brilliant!

Cheers!

Bulldog

since i'm in a sharing mood, when i was growing up my mother used the phrase "up and at 'em" quite often to rouse us from our slumber. as i was a good catholic boy and knew my bible, i understood the phrase as "up and adam." now i knew who adam was, but this up person had me a tad confused. fortunately saturday morning cartoons came to my rescue.

since mom used this phrase to try to get us to wake up, i logically concluded that there must be some arcane bible reference to "adam" meeting this "up" person and together they did something darn exciting. that was about as far as i was able to take the idea. but one saturday morning i was watching cartoons and who should i see, but "atom ant," whose rallying cry was "up and at 'em, atom ant." i had never known that my mom had been so into cartoons (actually she wasn't as her exposure to "ren and stimpy" later proved but it was a nice idea for a while to believe that she was). but i was still a bit perplexed because this "up person" was still strangely non-existant.

it was not until a at least 2nd grade that things all few into place and the meaning behind the phrase became clear. but i still have yet to find the mysterious "up."

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