Terms that are stupid or make little sense when you see/hear them
Heat stroke - I know this is the accepted medical term for the terminal phase of heat related illness, but a lot of folks think that it is somehow related to the other strokes that are so much more common (clot related stroke or hemorrhagic stroke). In any event, you are hit by a stroke of bad luck, if any one of them hits you.
Hay fever - It's allergy due to whatever that is in the environment. Nothing to do with fever.
Pre-qualified - You have been chosen. You are pre-qualified for our Uber Ultimate Titanium Plus credit card. Pre-qualified makes you, and a million other suckers, feel special. But, it means jack shit. You are still a nothing. You're not even pre-approved.
Near miss - Yes, we know what it means. It's a close call. But, at first glance, it means the opposite, a collision.
What else are out there?
Q
July 20, 2017, 05:22 PM
RHINOWSO
Chicken Pox
July 20, 2017, 05:24 PM
12131
Oh yeah, and ring worm - It's a fungus, folks. There's no worm in there.
Q
July 20, 2017, 05:31 PM
Balzé Halzé
quote:
Originally posted by 12131:
Near miss - Yes, we know what it means. It's a close call. But, at first glance, it means the opposite, a collision.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
July 20, 2017, 05:38 PM
mikeyspizza
Well, needless to say (but I'll say anyway), I'm sweating like a pig (pigs don't sweat), but one of my rules of thumb (?) is that when I hear "heads up" I duck (down instead of up)!This message has been edited. Last edited by: mikeyspizza, July 20, 2017 07:59 PM
July 20, 2017, 05:44 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Breaking news.
July 20, 2017, 05:45 PM
Orguss
Dry cleaning - Even though water isn't used, your clothes are still getting wet by the solvents used to clean them.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
July 20, 2017, 06:21 PM
rusbro
Driveway = a place to park. Parkway = a place to drive.
July 20, 2017, 06:39 PM
Twist
Illegal Immigrant.
___________________________ Not giving a damn since...whenever...
July 20, 2017, 07:13 PM
cparktd
I slept like a baby...
You mean you woke up every two hours screaming with your pants full and your belly empty?
Endeavor to persevere.
July 20, 2017, 07:15 PM
nhtagmember
jumbo shrimp
plastic silverware
[B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC
July 20, 2017, 07:50 PM
cas
Elevator.
Going up, sure. But...
_____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911.
July 20, 2017, 08:26 PM
Fredward
Throwin' shade. Dude, it's 101 outide! Trow me some dat!
July 20, 2017, 08:46 PM
thunderson
Sweating like a hog(pig).
I have the heart of a lion.......and a lifetime ban from the Toronto Zoo.- Unknown
July 20, 2017, 08:56 PM
Captain Morgan
Pre-owned Apartments
Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Benjamin Franklin
July 20, 2017, 09:16 PM
sigmonkey
Reduced down. Raised up.
1:30AM in the morning or 3:30PM in the afternoon.
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
July 20, 2017, 09:23 PM
OKCGene
Does it burn up, or burn down?
Why are they called apartments? They're all stuck together.
Hot water heater. No. Wrong. It's a water heater. Why would you heat already hot water?
All the news that's fit to print. You know who. Yeah right, bullshit in print.
July 20, 2017, 09:42 PM
justjoe
"I could care less"-- which means that you care. ("Couldn't care less.")
"Previously owned." It's fucking USED. Might as well call vomit "previously digested."
"Pre-recorded." It's recorded. Unless you have something that was done before it was recorded.
