Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 5:11 pm
Nah, let's keep "stop" light (which I know has other functions as well), to keep garage door "opener" company.BigGuy wrote:Stop light rather than traffic light.
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Word use that drives you up the wall!
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Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:02 pm
Watered down "four letter words" instead of proper Anglo Saxon profanities. If one is too prissy to cuss, don't.
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:05 pm
The Annoyed Man wrote:Incorrect: "Me 'n the missus went over yonder to visit my cousin Cletus. Him an' me went a'huntin' over in the holler."Abraham wrote:Never wavering from using "I" (akin to sticking out one's pinky when sipping tea...) instead of "Me" - when "Me" would be appropriate.
The word "Me" is often treated as a snaggle-toothed hillbilly.
Correct: "My wife and I visited my cousin Cletus in the next town over. He and I went hunting together over in that old hollow. He is such a terrible bore that I killed the old boy and left him there, buried in a shallow grave. What?"
Now see that? That first example has all kind of problems with it. The second one is right as rain.
Or should I have stuck tongue in cheek and said ... "That right thar's funny, I don't care who y'are"?
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:15 pm
And Jimmy Hatlo was using "Thanx and a tip of the Hatlo hat" in the 1930s.Dadtodabone wrote:I agree with the kewl. The usage of thanx though, began as an expression of faith on Usenet back in the 80s, one which I have indulged in a time or two. Due to its hijacking by the urban and hip, I've eliminated it from my lexicon.Abraham wrote:Thanx and kewl, ugh...especially awful when posted by middle aged white guys desperately seeking hipster status..
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:19 pm
A term cropping up a lot lately: Cordite.
Just tonight on my wife's show "King and Maxwell" the one told the other that there couldn't have been a gun fired because she didn't smell any Cordite.
She wouldn't have, they stopped using Cordite about 100 years ago.
Just tonight on my wife's show "King and Maxwell" the one told the other that there couldn't have been a gun fired because she didn't smell any Cordite.
She wouldn't have, they stopped using Cordite about 100 years ago.
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:34 pm
"At the end of the day"
Drives me up the figurative wall.
Drives me up the figurative wall.
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:40 pm
For example where, and how often, does the word "heck" appear in the Bible?bizarrenormality wrote:Watered down "four letter words" instead of proper Anglo Saxon profanities. If one is too prissy to cuss, don't.
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 11:00 pm
Hmmm...be danged if you boys might not have a goldarn point there.Oldgringo wrote:For example where, and how often, does the word "heck" appear in the Bible?bizarrenormality wrote:Watered down "four letter words" instead of proper Anglo Saxon profanities. If one is too prissy to cuss, don't.
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:52 am
Bull Corn!
One of the many goofy, non-expletives I heard as a young-un, which reminds me I hate "young-un". Shudder...
However, if one must utter the odious "young-un" or the even more detestable "britches" one must wear old bib overalls with no shirt or shoes...with thumbs hooked into the shoulder straps while spitting chew juice...
One of the many goofy, non-expletives I heard as a young-un, which reminds me I hate "young-un". Shudder...
However, if one must utter the odious "young-un" or the even more detestable "britches" one must wear old bib overalls with no shirt or shoes...with thumbs hooked into the shoulder straps while spitting chew juice...
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:00 am
"Back in the day"
"He/She's a piece of work"
Utterly worthless flapdoodle.
Issuing such circumlocutions reveals a lack of imagination or specificity.
"He/She's a piece of work"
Utterly worthless flapdoodle.
Issuing such circumlocutions reveals a lack of imagination or specificity.
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:09 pm
A "piece of work" can be traced back to Shakespeare.Abraham wrote:"Back in the day"
"He/She's a piece of work"
Utterly worthless flapdoodle.
Issuing such circumlocutions reveals a lack of imagination or specificity.
And my grandpappy taught me "britches", "yonder", and a bunch of others.
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:30 pm
Grandpappy is another word that drives me up the wall.
On the manor, we announce this position as: Most Exalted Grand Poo-Bah!
(behind his back we call him Tubby)
On the manor, we announce this position as: Most Exalted Grand Poo-Bah!
(behind his back we call him Tubby)
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:51 pm
Mostly the grandkids just called him "Pap."Abraham wrote:Grandpappy is another word that drives me up the wall.
On the manor, we announce this position as: Most Exalted Grand Poo-Bah!
(behind his back we call him Tubby)
Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 12:57 pm
A new Paradigm
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Re: Word use that drives you up the wall!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:01 pm
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