Having Your Cake, a small pet peeve of mine

[Adam West]

I once had an accountant who worked for me used the word arrears wrong. For example, if somebody receives a raise and it wasn't reflected in their current paycheck, you might have to pay them in arrears...meaning go back and pay the obligation that was owed to them from the raise date.

She would say she would need to pay someone in the rear. I would just laugh and tell her to go right ahead.

[Adam West]

The Wisdom of Larry The Cable Guy . .

1. A day without sunshine is like night.

2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

6. He who laughs last thinks slowest.

7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

9. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.

10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.

14. OK, so what's the speed of dark?

15. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

20. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, "What the heck happened?"

22. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.

23. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

24. Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow

[mitchedwards]

People that use the word decimate to describe total destruction. Decimate means to reduce by a 10th.

Also People that us the phrase "Can't cut the mustard" The correct phrase is "Can't cut the muster"

[David Lee]

Two of my peeves come to mind... (great thread BTW)

"Adicting"... as in this is so good is Adicting... ADICTIVE is a word ADICTING is not...

and my all time most hated... "you have another thing coming".... what? Ben Grim is coming to get you? No....the correct phrase is: "if you think that, you have another think coming"


-Dave

[grayhank]

Here are two phrases that are used that have no purpose whatsoever other than saying them because you have nothing better to say:

"Everything happens for a reason".
"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time".

If you have nothing better to say, then say nothing.

[grayhank]

Two of my peeves come to mind... (great thread BTW)

"Adicting"... as in this is so good is Adicting... ADICTIVE is a word ADICTING is not...

-Dave

Actually neither of those are words...the word is Addictive!

[Megospidey]

To say something is "very unique". You can't have degrees of uniqueness because it means "one of a kind"

That is the one that bugs me the most. I hear it all the time: on tv, radio, in conversations.

You are absolutely correct - by definition of the word, "unique" means "one of a kind".

How can something be "very one of a kind?"

[Sideshow Spock]

Hearing people say "drug" as the past tense of drag (it's dragged, DUH) really cheeses me off.

[huedell]

Here are two phrases that are used that have no purpose whatsoever other than saying them because you have nothing better to say:

"Everything happens for a reason".
"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time".

If you have nothing better to say, then say nothing.

Whether you believe in the validity of those two phrases or not...the irony
of a Minister saying that those two phrases used to comfort people "have no
purpose" is worth pointing out.

[grayhank]

Whether you believe in the validity of those two phrases or not...the irony
of a Minister saying that those two phrases used to comfort people "have no
purpose" is worth pointing out.

While it's true I am a minister, as it turns out I'm quite incompetent at it, so it evens out.

[huedell]

and my all time most hated... "you have another thing coming".... what? Ben Grim is coming to get you? No....the correct phrase is: "if you think that, you have another think coming"

Wow---never knew that one---JUDAS PRIEST fans will be saddened for sure

[Adam West]

It is unbelievable to me how many people use the word "come" in the past tense.

"He come down here about 8 this morning".

[ctc]

Carlkin had a good quote for the "I could care less" thing:

It's that I COULDN'T care less, 'cos if you COULD care less there's a risk that you care at all.....

The "apples and oranges" one bugs me. Meant to imply a comparasin of two radically different things it bothers me because:

-you CAN compare radically different things
-apples and oranges aren't that different. Both are fruit, grow on trees, have internal seeds and tough outer skins. Both are round, can be made into juice, and their colouration on a chroma scale is very close.

Don C.

[monkey tennis]

I had a girlfriend that thought that the saying
"I can't be arsed" meaning I can't be bothered
was
"I can't be asked" meaning she had gone deaf or something.

My friends gran thought that Antiques was a person.
She called them Anti Quays, she thought that he was very rich
having stores all over the world and selling old stuff.
Bless.