Bucky
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Thu Feb-01-07 07:54 PM
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Is there a dumber figure of speech than "Well color me relieved..."? |
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When people say that, I really want to grab a sharpie and smudge up their foreheads.
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Thu Feb-01-07 08:30 PM
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1. My personal favorite is "if and when" |
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which is totally illogical, considering that "if" refers to something that is hypothetical and "when" refers to something definite. It's like saying "It might will happen".
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Thu Feb-01-07 08:59 PM
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2. I hate "He/She dropped a brown one." |
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What does that even mean? And you hear it EVERYWHERE. I pray it's just one of these stupid three-week fads that gets totally forgotten after that.
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Thu Feb-01-07 09:05 PM
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3. I've never heard that before, but it sounds kinda nasty. |
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Thu Feb-01-07 09:42 PM
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4. Right, it refers to dropping a deuce |
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Thu Feb-01-07 09:56 PM
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Fri Feb-02-07 01:25 AM
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I mean, on the surface it obviously does, but I hear it in the context of being angry or put out, ie. "I was really late meeting my girlfriend, and she totally dropped a brown one on me!" "My boss dropped a fuckin' brown one on me about the Pilsbury contract," etc.
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Thu Feb-01-07 09:59 PM
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Fri Feb-02-07 01:25 AM
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13. More to it though, I think. |
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Thu Feb-01-07 09:47 PM
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5. "Butter my butt and call me a biscuit!" |
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(Actually, I like that one.)
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Thu Feb-01-07 10:07 PM
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9. Where does the line form? |
JVS
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Thu Feb-01-07 09:58 PM
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7. "fuck me in the ass twice" |
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Thu Feb-01-07 10:08 PM
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10. "I am curious, yellow" |
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Huh?
Maybe it didn't translate well from the original Sveriginese..
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Thu Feb-01-07 10:19 PM
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11. "Color me relieved" is a survival of a bit of forty-year old pop culture |
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Early in the 1960s, there was a "coloring book for adults" which had a series of cartoons with descriptions that mimicked the style of children's reading books. It had "instructions" like "color her green with envy" or "color him blue," but then it got more fanciful. (It's hard to explain. I wish I could find an excerpt on the Web.) The one I remember best had, I believe, some businessmen trying to gain the boss's favor and win a promotion. The caption was, "Color their noses burnt umber." :-)
Anyway, a couple of years later, Barbra Streisand came out with a song called, "My Coloring Book." Here are the lyrics:
For those who fancy coloring books
As certain people do
Here's a new one for you
A most unusual coloring book
The kind you never see
Crayons ready, very well
Begin to color me
These are the eyes that watched him
As he walked away
Color them gray
This is the heart that thought
He would always be true
Color it blue
These are the arms that held him
And touched him then lost him somehow
Color them empty now
These are the beads I wore
Until she came between
Color them green
This is the room I sleep in
Walk in and weep in
Hide in that nobody sees
Color it lonely, please
This is the man
The one I depended upon
Color him gone...
The song is pretty much forgotten, but the use of "color me..." has survived.
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