BS: Stupid Sayings

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 03:28 PM

Exactly. That's why whenever I hear it, I move away....far away.

I'm tired of young women prefacing every subordinate clause with the word, "like". Does that count?

Then there's "I'm like...geddadahere!" And she's like..."Don't tell me to geddadahere!" and I'm like..."Listen, bitch, when I, like tell you to..." etc., etc., etc. (LOL!)

They should all be exported to some country that is looking for really stupid young women...but not necessarily virgins.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Tootler
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 06:24 PM

A favourite one of a former Vice Chancellor of the University I where I used to work was "I hear what you say and I hear what you don't say"

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 06:34 PM

Add the irritating "I know where you're coming from".

My response:- "So you know where I live, but you don't have a clue what I'm saying."

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 06:51 PM

Managers who say 'it would be in the interest of the team' meaning he/she wants you to do it and that's all there is to it.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 07:21 PM

What about "This hurts me more than you," Or "I'm doing this for your own good."

Don't do me any favors, huh!?

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 07:23 PM

I love that: 'the team'. It has come to mean that the employee will be worked until he/she can no longer keep up and then tossed out like trash.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 07:39 PM

Yes, the comic "Dilbert" is very good at illustrating that kind of corporate office BS.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Slag
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 08:00 PM

Do you know the difference between a duck?
Blah Blah Blah... at the end of the day... (will this day never end?)
7/24
yuh know?
... and then I go, "..."
... and then he goes"..."
in a pig's eye
til the cows come home
for crying in a bucket (has anyone ever cried in a bucket?)
DUDE!
You'll be fine (this one is just rife with disaster!)
Hello-o? (When Holmes did it, it worked fine, but you're not Holmes!)

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: *daylia*
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 08:41 PM

I see! Said the blind man. And picked up his hammer. And saw.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: John O'L
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 08:45 PM

Do Americans really say "7/24"?

Here in Oz, where we date things Day/Month/Year, I have only ever heard it as "24/7".

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: John O'L
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 08:47 PM

"I see", said the blind man, but he didn't really see at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 09:26 PM

"At this moment in time" or even worse, "At the present moment in time" when what they mean can be stated in one syllable: Now. (Who started that? Was it Nixon?)

Also its halfwit cousins:
"At the end of the day" = Finally
"State of the art" = Best.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 09:30 PM

"point in time


is a cliché, a bit of padded prose. It has been around for a long time, but the Watergate hearings of the 1970s made many people conscious of it and determined to root it out of their language. A single word will usually do nicely: At this point in time is now; at that point in time was then; at some point in time will be sometime."

Thats from a www dictionary.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: number 6
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 09:37 PM

If you press hard enough with "a point in time" ... you will break the "time barrier".

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 10:15 PM

No, we don't say "7/24"....never, ever heard that.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:00 AM

Photographic evidence posted on the always truthful internet posits that at least one person in the US (New Jersey, as I recall) has a "vanity" license plate on her (female driver presumed) vehicle that reads:

                    PMS24-7


... ... ... ... and is never tailgated.


John

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:10 AM

But we do say "7/24". Look at your calendar.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Slag
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:35 AM

24 days a week/ 7 hours a day, or like WHATEVER!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: robomatic
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:42 AM

"the immortal soul"

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: John O'L
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:46 AM

'The most unique' - did someone already say that?

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Paul Burke
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:01 AM

Now then.
It'll either rain or go dark before morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:03 AM

Things said by mothers to kids -

Just look at the back of your neck.

Come here and I'll give you a clout.

I was waiting for ages and all these buses kept not coming.


Things just said -

Cheap at twice the price.

If he goes any faster he'll meet himself comimg back.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Paul Burke
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:39 AM

Cheap at half the price was more common on the Height. Well, I'll go to our house!

Where's Mam? She's in a bottle on the roof.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:39 AM

Still waters run deep.
Still waters don't run at all.
"How may I help you on the journey that is you."
Once said to me by a shop assistant in Washington State.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 07:01 AM

Half the price made a lot more sense, Paul. Perhaps twice the price was a Swinton saying. Just proving how daft Swintonians are and what a good move I made to th'height:-)

I'll go to t'foot of our stairs

It's black o'er Bills mothers

Were another two.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:33 AM

"Cheap at twice the price" is in fact the logical one as it's a contraction of..."It would be cheap at twice the price" to describe an exceptionally good bargain.

Sorry, it's the pedant in me getting loose again.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:35 AM

Perhaps I had better move back?

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:36 AM

I suddenly realised that the other one works just as well.

"It would be cheap at half the price" to describe something that isn't a bargain at all.

Sorry guys, we'll have to disallow the stupidity of both.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:37 AM

You can stay where you are DtG.....LOL

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: John O'L
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:46 AM

Too stupid by half.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 09:29 AM

As thick as pigshit in winter,
daft as a brush,
as thick as two short planks,
whale oil beef hooked.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 12:44 PM

"But we do say "7/24". Look at your calendar."

pooh! My calendar is silent. We PRINT dates with the month first (usually). If someone askes me when I was born, I 'say' May the 20th...(or maybe "the 20th of May)....but 24/7 is a specific locution with an inflexible connotation! (ooohh..he's babbling again!!)

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: harpmaker
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:33 PM

Flamenco Ted.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:35 PM

Montego Bay

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: John O'L
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 07:01 PM

Flamenco Ted? Montego Bay?

Eh?

'as thick as two short planks' - Love that
'a specific locution with an inflexible connotation' - Love that too.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 07:05 PM

I don't think this one is stupid, in fact it's one of my favorites:

"grinning like a dog eating bumblebees"

the visual that goes along with it is priceless!

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 07:16 PM

If you're in, say, a 20% tax bracket, then a penny saved is 1.25 pennies earned.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: 282RA
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:19 PM

How about "fit as a fiddle"? Is that necessarily a good thing?

Or what about "dead as a doornail"? A doornail is no more dead than any other inanimate object. It's as stupid as "dead as crystal champagne goblet."

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: harpmaker
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 08:56 PM

The bees Knees

Ape shape

Speed camera partenership

The dogs bollocks

Gnatts piss

You are what you eat (How can that be??)

Flamenco

Ted

Does my bum look big in this?

Air guitar

Shit hot

Don't worry, you'le get over it.
Hmmmm....
And finally
See how much you could save!!.. has become a favorite in recent years, and is a utter load of crap.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: HuwG
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 09:10 PM

"As tight as a camel's a*** in a sandstorm".

"As much use as a chocolate teapot"
"As much use as a concrete cushion"
"As much use as a rubber crutch"
"As much use as a one-legged man at an a***-kicking contest"
"As much use as a haemorrhoid transplant"

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Slag
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 12:49 AM

Happy as a dead pig in the sunshine!
Looks like a mule eatin' briars.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Amergin
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 02:03 AM

fuck me sideways

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Peace
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 02:09 AM

"You are what you eat (How can that be??)"

You have NO idea how much I am having difficulty not replying to this one . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Rasener
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 02:30 AM

If you keep on doing that, you will go blind

I never understood what me mother meant, in fact thats when I stopped reading books.

You dozy twat

Put a sock in it

If your not in bed by 10, come home

You wait till your father comes home (mother unable to control the situation with the children)

What a load of cobblers

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 03:31 AM

If you are what you eat then I'm sweet, cheap and easy.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 04:24 AM

Stop that or you'll go blind,

well can I do it half as much and wear glasses?


Thank god your mother died in childbirth, if she'd seen you she'd have died of shame.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Mr Fox
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:10 AM

Face like a bag of smashed crabs.

If I get there first I'll chalk a cross on the wall. If you get there first rub it out.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Tweed
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 09:48 AM

Dumb as a bag of hammers.
    from the "O Brother film"

"I am the Decider!"
    GW Bush, 2006

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Kim C
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 10:09 AM

Neck of the woods. Why is it always a neck? Why not a crotch, or an armpit? Or an elbow, for that matter.

Not worth a shit. Well, that depends on how much a shit is actually worth.

Comparing apples to oranges. They both grow on trees, they both have seeds inside (except for the hybrid oranges), they are edible and tasty, they both produce a good juice for drinking, they are nutritious, they are both sort of round. I'm thinking apples and mailboxes might be a better analogy if you're talking about two things that aren't alike.

Subject: RE: BS: Stupid Sayings
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 11:34 AM

We say 24/7 and sometimes 24/7/365 for activities that are always going (24 hours a day, seven days a week). It has nothing to do with calendar dates.


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