BS: silly things that people say

Subject: BS: silly things that people say
From: Tam the man
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 12:25 PM

Why do people including me say daft things, like when you're in a building and you look out the window you say it's raining outside.

Or Live in Concert, I mean of course they are I mean if would be silly to see them/him/her on stage dead in a coffin, no offence meant.

Tam

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 12:46 PM

Actually there are buildings big enough to have their own weather, complete with rain, inside them. The one that comes to mind is the huge assembly building at Cape Kennedy.

And of course someone could be live, presenting a lecture or a dance performance. I think "in concert" is not the basic thought, modified by "live", but rather the other way around.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 01:03 PM

Notice the use of 'live' not 'Alive'.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: gnu
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 01:20 PM

I hate it when people say they are going to try and do something.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 02:34 PM

Personally I am of the opinion that I have NEVER said anything silly.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 02:59 PM

"Live recording"

ALL recordings are done live....

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 03:14 PM

Including those by William Shatner...

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 03:16 PM

I did some live television back in the late Fifties and early Sixties. That meant that there was an element of simultaneity about the whole thing. People watching the shows saw and heard me doing what I was doing as I was doing it. Live television can be a bit nervous-making. You can't back it up and edit it. What you do is what they get—i.e., don't pick your nose when you're on camera.

Now, I sit in front of the television set and the announcer says, "And now, live from Lincoln Center," or something like that—then they play me a tape..

It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 03:21 PM

"don't pick your nose when you're on camera"

Awww man... but that's my #1 SKILL!!!

"then they play me a tape.."
Ya... but it was taped live...

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 03:45 PM

In Juneau Alaska, when 'Saturday Night Live! comes on, it says:Taped from an earlier broadcast

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 03:58 PM

When I'm watching the six o'clock local news on channel 4 and I see Dan Lewis and Kathi Goertzen on the screen of my TV set, I know that at that moment they are sitting in the studio down on 4th Avenue near the Seattle Center speaking as I watch and listen. That's live. Then later in the evening, I switch over to channel 7 (CBS) and watch a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond. Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton were live in the studio when they shot the show, but what I saw the first time around was not live, it was a tape. And the rerun is still a tape.

When I watch one of the Inspector Morse mysteries on my local PBS affiliate, that's a tape. John Thaw was live when they taped the show, but he (the actor who played Morse) died a few years ago. What I'm seeing on my TV screen is not live. Nor is the actor who played the lead role live. It's on tape.

When I watched a Grateful Dead concert on the tube, the announcer said, "And now, the Grateful Dead, live from—(wherever it was)." But by then, Jerry Garcia was dead, and the group had disbanded. The group, indeed, was dead. No way you looked at it was it live. Once. Not anymore.

Don't believe everything you hear on TV, Clinton. A lot of it—most of it—is sheer illusion, no matter what the booth announcer tells you.

(By the way, butt-scratching is always a big favorite. . . .)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: open mike
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 04:10 PM

a t.v.announcer said b#llsh#t on live t.v. yesterday
and got sh*t canned. bet he wishes it was taped!!

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Cool Beans
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 04:44 PM

"Mission accomplished."

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 05:04 PM

Furthermore.

In 1971-72, I worked as an announcer for a radio station that operated live-board during the day, but went automated overnight. There was a large IGM (International Good Music) machine sitting in the studio, but just outside the control room. One of the staff had attached a poster of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster to the front of the machine. I ran live board from 6:00 p.m. till midnight. Part of my job was to program the machine to run unattended from midnight to 6:00 a.m. I slapped a couple of big open-reel tapes on the deck and stuck commercial, public service announcement, and station-break cartridges in the carousels. Then, checking the music lists that came with the open-reel tapes, I taped voice-tracks, back-announcing the music that the listeners had just heard (or will have just heard), and inserted the cartridge into the carousel. An important part of programming the machine was to keep track of the exact durations of everything and carefully flip the necessary switches to make sure that the music tapes stopped and started at the right instant, the commercials played when they were scheduled, and, generally, that everything came up at the time and in the sequence it was supposed to. At precisely midnight, I punched the button that switched the station over from live-board to automation, signed the log, and went home.   

As I was listening to the car radio while driving home, I could hear myself announcing the music titles. There was no one—no one—at the station.

Definitely not live.

(Great gimmick for a murder mystery. "But detective, how could I possibly have committed the murder? I was on the air at the time the crime was committed. Thousands of people heard me." I think Clint Eastwood did something like this in Play Misty for Me when he was supposed to be on the air, but had to go rescue his girl friend from the murderous Evelyn.)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: jpk
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 05:11 PM

someone ask you 'how are you' in greeting,and you know damn good and well that they could car less,and most certainly do not won't an honest answer,much less any answer.
have a nice day an god bless.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 05:43 PM

"pre-recorded earlier"

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 07:09 PM

Hell, if someone says 'how are you' to me, I bloody tell them!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Kaleea
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 08:03 PM

daft? how 'bout "I didn't inhale"? "I was never high at Camp David." "_____insert name of politician____ lied!"

& mebbe, "Now available in child's meals at your local feed-a-brat--collect all 9,876,545,203!!"

Is it live, or is it memorex?
    I have attended "concerts" where the person on stage may have been medically alive, but most assuredly had no idea where they were or what they were doing.   Was it a concert?

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 09:20 PM

We download updates, but almost never upload downdates.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 09:33 PM

.. or downlates...

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 09:47 PM

I am a park ranger. I wear a park ranger uniform, with a name tag and a badge that says "ranger" on it. I love it when people walk up to me on the job and ask if I work there.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 09:49 PM

"Here's yer sign."

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 10:09 PM

Somebody asks me, "How's it go?"   I tell them: "It doesn't go; ya gotta push it!"   When you think about it, that's a whole philosophy of life!

And when somebody says, "How are you today?" I say, "Purty fair. I think I'll last at least long as lunch! (pause) That's called limited objectives!"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: bobad
Date: 05 Aug 05 - 10:17 PM

Man #1: So, shit, man, what was it like in prison?
Man #2: I learned how to make a girl out of three baloney sandwiches.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: sixtieschick
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 02:41 AM

Wait staff in restaurants who ask you if you are finished eating by saying, "Are you still working on that?"

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 05:57 AM

The cheque is in the post, I'll phone you back, honest I've had a vasectomy.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Michael
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 06:42 AM

There was 'The All New Popeye Show' (repeat).
Mike

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 10:32 AM

"I love (you, him, her, them) to death." If that's true, you're doing it WRONG. "God is LOVE." "I AM the Way, the Truth, and The Life..." Loving aright makes life. Nature of the beast. Look it up.          Tw

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 10:39 AM

Just listened to a song by Mike Waterson, about his friend who found Jesus, he said Jesus liked him so well he took him away. If there was a ' Jesus ' he wouldnt let children and BABIES starve to death in Niger.

God is not love, it's a myth.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Joybell
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 07:01 PM

True-Love gets irate about TV announcers who say, "We'll see you tomorrow". They can't REALLY ...can they?! Worried.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 08:01 PM

"What do you know?"

answer, "well, it takes a hell of a big dog to weigh a ton."

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 08:48 PM

ranger1

they probably think that is your name...

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: ranger1
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 10:16 PM

Well, maybe. The name tag and the badge stating "ranger" are two separate items. But, yeah, some of the people who visit the park probably would think that.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: NH Dave
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 10:48 PM

Wait staff, who must hide behind the potted palm until you take a mouthful that will require a good 30 seconds to chew and swallow, come up and ask how you like your meal, or if there is anything they can get you.

    Dave

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Homeless
Date: 06 Aug 05 - 11:32 PM

re: "Live in Concert" In this neck of the woods one of the popular events is the "Pink Floyd Laser Light Show." They rent out a place and play Pink Floyd CDs over the PA while having a live laser show. So while the audience is listening to Pink Floyd, they are definitely not In Concert.
Also, it is not uncommon for a venue to simulcast an event as it happens on their big screen TV. So while you could go see, say, Tina Turner In Concert, it is not Live at that venue. So at least around here there is a difference between "In Concert" and "Live, in Concert"

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: GUEST,Chris B (Born Again Scouser)
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 03:49 PM

Yes, but how is he in himself?

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Don Firth
Date: 07 Aug 05 - 11:59 PM

When radio announcers or TV hosts say, "Until next time, this is Joe Schmoe."

"Okay," I sez to myself, "then who will you be?"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 12:19 AM

In a restaurant, a plate of food is placed on the table - then someone says "there you go"


Why??

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 06:08 AM

Some git in McNastyburgler asked me if I wanted fries - with the icecream I'd just ordered....

You have to wonder.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Flash Company
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 10:47 AM

Announcements in live broadcasting have always gone wrong. I think it was Stewart Hibberd who said, 'Tonight we have a unique occasion, the first Party Political Broadcast on BBC radio, Here is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stifford Crapps.'

FC

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: DavidHannam
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 10:52 AM

When the tragic london bombings happened, someone said to me, i was on a London bus last week, it could have been me who died.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 04:47 PM

Ask them "Are you sure it wasn't?"

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: jpk
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 05:37 PM

you get in your truck,imean car which ever?,start it up and go to drive off.
and some one has to ask going somewere.
ya nowhere that you are.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 07:59 PM

I come in the door at the end of the day, and my Beautiful Wife says, (and I quote): "Are you back?"   

"No, I'm still downtown."

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Peace
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 08:01 PM

"Don't go there". That friggin' expression makes me crazy.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 02:00 AM

They say they're gonna take a crap when they really plan to leave one.

Liars! See if I let you use my washroom again.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 04:35 AM

Bite me.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 05:08 AM

This is turning into 'Pet Peeves' for verbalisms.....

I did once ask a potential library member if he'd brought his name with him.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 06:18 AM

Seriously, bite me is unbelievably silly.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From:
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 06:23 AM

I was listening to the news this morning and the reporter refered to the Customs and Excise as the Customs and Exercise...

There's a bloke at work and everytime he gets a hot chocolate out the the machine he says "Its hotter than the sun!"....unbelievably silly and now he's got other people saying it too!

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 06:52 AM

Like those who say they're 'flying to the sun' for their holidays.... they never understand why I fall about laughing....

Am I bovvered?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 07:27 AM

I like it when people are approaching their stop on the bus or train and turn to each other and say

"Is this us?"


I always start my philosopy lectures at the Rose and Crown with the same question.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 07:41 AM

I actually voted for the 87 billion before I voted against it.



Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Homeless
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 09:02 AM

re: "Live Recording" While all recordings start off live, not all of them end up that way. Live Recording is generally reserved for when they set up in front of an audience, roll tapes, do a performance, and release it as is. The alternative is multiple takes, editting, dubbing, etc., to end up with a recording that sounds (thoretically) better, but doesn't necessarily reflect a performance.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Jeanie
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 10:16 AM

Said frequently by people pointing at a vacant seat: "Is someone sitting there ?"

Said frequently in Scotland when opening the front door to callers: "Come away in."

Said frequently by naughty mothers to naughty children: "Do you want a smack ?"

Said frequently by my mother when getting into car in hot weather: "Oooh, it's like stepping into a hot oven." (How many times did she ever do that ?)

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 12:01 PM

Not sure Eric but the one who's starving might just be you.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 12:18 PM

Someone comes up to me in a public place and asks:

"Is that seat saved?"

I have two potential answers:

1: "No, but we're praying for it."

and

2: "Yes, we've been saving it just for you."

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 12:21 PM

3. "Yes. It originally was on the Titanic."

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 12:21 PM

What's silly about inquiring over empty seats? The person might have gone to the loo.
'Do you want a smack' just goes to show that mothers are the original Dirty Harries (or Harriets).

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 01:43 PM

Basically, a teen-age through twenties phenomenon, but it's creeping up the age scale:

". . . like. . . ." every third or fourth word.

And ". . . you know. . . ." every third of fourth word is another one. "If you assume that I already know, then why are you telling me?"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 11:55 PM

"at the end of the day" seems to crop up frequently now in youngspeak.


I recently heard a schoolgirl, who had been thinking about dodging class, say "but at the end of the day I just got up and went to school"

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: GUEST,Mr Happy
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 09:33 AM

often in pub sessions etc, folk will ask 'is anyone sitting there?'

i usually reply [with smile] 'have a feel round on the seat!'

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Peace
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 04:38 PM

Have a nice day.

Have a good one.

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From:
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 10:55 AM

dam it i hate this

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: Scoville
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 04:34 PM

I made some cheese bread for a guy I was seeing and he said, "Is it good?"

I said, "No, it tastes like ass but I thought I'd share."

Subject: RE: BS: silly things that people say
From: autolycus
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 05:11 PM

Groucho Marx's reply to "Have a nice day" was , "I'll have any damn day I please."

A tip if "I'll try ......" isn't your fave.

Put a small object in the upturned, flat palm of your hand and ask them to "Try and take it."
Usually they'll take it.
Tell them they failed the experiment,'cos you didn't ask them to "take it", then pause a bit to see when the penny drops.


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