Skittles
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:35 PM
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people, please, the expression is "COULDN'T care less" |
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Edited on Mon Jul-24-06 08:40 PM by Skittles
I am tired of seeing DUers say they "could care less" when I know that is not what they mean ! http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:36 PM
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1. Unless you care more than you could. n/t |
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:38 PM
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6. IF it was used in that manner, correct |
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Edited on Mon Jul-24-06 08:38 PM by Skittles
technically speaking :)
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:36 PM
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2. Well, technically, it has an L in it, but yeah, you're right. |
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:37 PM
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:38 PM
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5. Don't even get me started on that misplaced double quote. |
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:37 PM
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3. Aside from the typo, you're correct. |
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:38 PM
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7. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!! TYPO IN THE OP! The expression is |
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actually "COULDN'T care less"
(As in, wrong '/")
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Skittles
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:39 PM
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8. I've been having trouble with this keyboard since I spilled Big Red in it |
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:40 PM
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9. So....."Big Red" is your new boyfriend? |
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:41 PM
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10. it's a soft drink, very popular in Texas |
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very sticky when spilled :o
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:42 PM
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Good stuff. I was just giving you shit.
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:46 PM
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15. Ha, I thought I was still talking to the Down Under guy |
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Edited on Mon Jul-24-06 08:47 PM by Skittles
I wish my glasses would arrive already; I ordered them ten days ago and I flounder without them....I don't see very well at ALL
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:44 PM
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12. That one is pretty easy to mangle, but the one that bothered me most... |
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....was this woman at my last job who kept saying "Prove it to the pudding!"
And she always did that in the middle of meetings which left me somewhere between screaming in pure agony at the mangled expression or collapsing into fits of giggling.
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:46 PM
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14. Lol, wtf was she trying to say? |
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:51 PM
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17. I think she was going for the "the proof is in the pudding" which more... |
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Edited on Mon Jul-24-06 08:56 PM by Liberal Veteran
...correctly is "the proof of the pudding is in the eating".
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Mon Jul-24-06 08:46 PM
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13. And the correct phrase is "I'll kick your scrawny little ass!" |
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