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#573803 - 06/24/06 05:53 PM
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My boss came in from outside a few days ago peppered with raindrops. One of my coworkers asks, "Is it raining out???" Errrr. Ya think???
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#573806 - 06/26/06 03:25 PM
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I hear a lot of people say "I could care less." Well if you could care less, then why don't you? Personally, I couldn't care less. 
I SOOOOO AGREE !!!!!!!
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#573807 - 06/26/06 03:45 PM
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Another one like that one that bothers me is when people say "Same difference"... There is NO difference, so say "Same thing" not "Same difference"!!!!
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#573809 - 06/26/06 04:10 PM
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How about "a near miss" isn't that a hit???
...and when did rocket science become rocket surgery????? This drives me crazy!! I've hard so many times lately, "Well, he's no rocket surgeon". Did I miss something here? Is rocket science now rocket surgery???
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#573810 - 06/26/06 04:43 PM
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Have you heard people say "I did a complete 360" when they really mean "180?" I always want to ask, "so, nothing changed, right?"
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#573811 - 06/26/06 04:47 PM
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haha DEL, I always make smart-ass comments like that to people when they say 360 instead of 180.
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#573813 - 06/26/06 06:08 PM
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Ohhh, "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes"... "woofing your food" instead of "wolfing your food" 
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#573814 - 06/26/06 06:32 PM
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Colder than he11. Uh, isn't he11 supposed to be really hot. DQ, isn't it?
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#573815 - 06/26/06 06:42 PM
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Colder than he11. Uh, isn't he11 supposed to be really hot. DQ, isn't it?
Unless you read Dante Alighieri and understand that the worst part of he11 is not inferno but ice.
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#573816 - 06/26/06 06:48 PM
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My ex BIL used to refer to the formal suit a groom would wear as a tuck. Turns out he thought that was the singular of tux.
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#573817 - 06/26/06 06:50 PM
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Another one for DQ.
I have a friend who constantly uses the phrase "going to he11 in a handbag."
She also uses the phrase "in like flint."
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#573818 - 06/26/06 06:53 PM
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Colder than he11. Uh, isn't he11 supposed to be really hot. DQ, isn't it?
Unless you read Dante Alighieri and understand that the worst part of he11 is not inferno but ice.
BF is correct, my black cat is named Dante... 
SP, Oy, "in like flint"???
Tuck was really a good one!
Oh, I just remembered, my fiance says "It's a doggy-dog world"... Uh, excuse me, but it is a "dog eat dog world" But, he's from Jersey City, I guess I can forgive him...
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#573819 - 06/26/06 06:58 PM
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I've always thought the saying was actually "In like Flynn," but I've never known where it came from.
Anybody know? (Or do I have it wrong?)
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#573821 - 06/26/06 07:02 PM
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Colder than he11. Uh, isn't he11 supposed to be really hot. DQ, isn't it?
Unless you read Dante Alighieri and understand that the worst part of he11 is not inferno but ice.
BF is correct, my black cat is named Dante...
SP, Oy, "in like flint"???
Tuck was really a good one!
Oh, I just remembered, my fiance says "It's a doggy-dog world"... Uh, excuse me, but it is a "dog eat dog world" But, he's from Jersey City, I guess I can forgive him...
If he's from Jersey city, are you sure he's not saying dog eat dog? 
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#573822 - 06/26/06 07:03 PM
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I've always thought the saying was actually "In like Flynn," but I've never known where it came from.
Anybody know? (Or do I have it wrong?)
[Q] “What is the derivation of in like Flynn?”
[A] Reference books almost universally assert that this set phrase, an American expression meaning to be successful emphatically or quickly, especially in regard to sexual seduction, refers to the Australian-born actor Errol Flynn. His drinking, drug-taking and sexual exploits were renowned, even for Hollywood, but the phrase is said to have been coined following his acquittal in February 1943 for the statutory rape of a teenage girl. This seems to be supported by the date of the first example recorded, in American Speech in December 1946, which cited a 1945 use in the sense of something being done easily.
The trouble with this explanation is that examples of obviously related expressions have now turned up from dates before Flynn’s trial. Barry Popik of the American Dialect Society found an example from 1940, as well as this from the sports section of the San Francisco Examiner of 8 February 1942: “Answer these questions correctly and your name is Flynn, meaning you’re in, provided you have two left feet and the written consent of your parents”. To judge from a newspaper reference he turned up from early 1943, the phrase could by then also be shortened to I’m Flynn, meaning “I’m in”.
It’s suggested by some writers that the phrase really originated with another Flynn, Edward J Flynn—“Boss” Flynn—a campaign manager for the Democratic party during FDR’s presidency. Flynn’s machine in the South Bronx in New York was so successful at winning elections that his candidates seemed to get into office automatically.
The existence of the examples found by Mr Popik certainly suggest the expression was at first unconnected with Errol Flynn, but that it shifted its association when he became such a notorious figure. Since then, it has altered again, because in 1967 a film, In Like Flint, a spy spoof starring James Coburn, took its title by wordplay from the older expression, and in turn caused many people to think that the phrase was really in like Flint.
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#573825 - 06/26/06 07:08 PM
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Also, news casters who say "Neither...Or..." Isn't it “Neither….Nor...”?
How about "Like, Whatever"?
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I used to say "doggy-dog world" when I was a kid. The other just didn't make any sense to me. Why would Dogs be eating eachother? hee hee hee
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