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Ever Say Things Completly Wrong?

DanC78

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not talking about opinionated stuff.

Here's what I mean...and these are things I've said.

"Sometimes you just gotta draw your foot in the sand"

"You need to bite the dog with a hair on it"

"Sometimes two birds in your hand is better than one in your bush"

"It's the movie with Sam Adams Jr" (was referring to Samuel L. Jackson)

In sure I'm the only one who jacks the simplest things up like this. My kids are going to field day with me when they get older.
 
My wife's brain is just cross-wired for metaphors. She constantly mixes them or just makes them up.
My favorite so far was, 'don't be a damper Susan' - what she meant to say was, 'don't be a negative Nancy'
 
I get names mixed up all the time. Especially when referring to people who share a first name with a celebrity. I constantly botch peoples names who aren't in my department. Luckily, I haven't accidentally mixed up a coworker's name with a pornstar name.
 
I mix /botch metaphors all the time. I get it from my Mom who also always screws them up.
 
Lol, actually, there are a lot misquotes in the general groupthink that get recycled constantly.

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" is really "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

"Bubble bubble boil and trouble" from Macbeth or anytime a witch is stirring a black cauldron is actually "Double, double, toil and trouble/fire burn and cauldron bubble."

"We're going to need a bigger boat" from Jaws is actually "YOU'RE going to need a bigger boat".

"Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all" from Snow White is really "MAGIC Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all."

"Beam me up Scotty" from the original series of Star Trek was really "Scotty, beam us up".

That's a small taste of the film misquotes, but there are lots of other misquotes from history that are common in groupthink.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” famously attributed to Voltaire and then misattributed to tons of people mainly politician or civil rights leaders was really "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too". Which isn't even that close, it came from a 1907 horrible and maybe purposeful mistranslation of his original French.

Edward Murplys quote or "Murphys Law" of "Anything that can go wrong, will" was actually If there’s more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way”.

“The only two certainties in life are death and taxes.” Which is usually misattributed to Mark Twain was actually Christopher Bullock 150 years before when he wrote "’Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes."

"The ends justify the means" allegedly said by Machiavelli was actually "One must consider the final result.”

There are hundreds like these. Groupthink is dumb.
 
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not talking about opinionated stuff.

Here's what I mean...and these are things I've said.

"Sometimes you just gotta draw your foot in the sand"

"You need to bite the dog with a hair on it"

"Sometimes two birds in your hand is better than one in your bush"

"It's the movie with Sam Adams Jr" (was referring to Samuel L. Jackson)

In sure I'm the only one who jacks the simplest things up like this. My kids are going to field day with me when they get older.
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Lol, actually, there are a lot misquotes in the general groupthink that get recycled constantly.

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" is really "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

"Bubble bubble boil and trouble" from Macbeth or anytime a witch is stirring a black cauldron is actually "Double, double, toil and trouble/fire burn and cauldron bubble."

"We're going to need a bigger boat" from Jaws is actually "YOU'RE going to need a bigger boat".

"Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all" from Sleeping Beauty is really "MAGIC Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all."

"Beam me up Scotty" from the original series of Star Trek was really "Scotty, beam us up".

That's a small taste of the film misquotes, but there are lots of other misquotes from history that are common in groupthink.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” famously attributed to Voltaire and then misattributed to tons of people mainly politician or civil rights leaders was really "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too". Which isn't even that close, it came from a 1907 horrible and maybe purposeful mistranslation of his original French.

Edward Murplys quote or "Murphys Law" of "Anything that can go wrong, will" was actually If there’s more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way”.

“The only two certainties in life are death and taxes.” Which is usually misattributed to Mark Twain was actually Christopher Bullock 150 years before when he wrote "’Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes."

"The ends justify the means" allegedly said by Machiavelli was actually "One must consider the final result.”

There are hundreds like these. Groupthink is dumb.
did you leave out "play it again, Sam?"

groupthink is running our country right now.
 
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I like to mix a metaphor now and then, or stack them up.

But my wife is the best...she can't pull a famous name to save her life...but she pulls one similar...or just similar enough to be hilarious.

And it's worse (better) now, because she KNOWS she does it, so now she second guesses every time she realizes she's not sure...and when she has the right name, she assumes it's wrong, and just pulls the most similar sounding name thinking she might get it. She'll say "Is that...um..what's his name..." and she'll see my eyes light up...and be all "ooh, ooh...hang on...it's _____!" and still get it wonderfully wrong.

And often the name she pulls is to much more obscure than the one she's looking for.

So like, she might call Vince Vaughn: Vincent Vega, Vinnie Vincent, or Von Helsing.

Or she might call Kate Hudson: Kate Upton, Jennifer Hudson, or Kit Harrington

Eugene Levy: Marv Levy or Joseph Gordon Levitt


It's the best, I love it.
 
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It's a good ideal to list them out:.

For all intensive purposes, it was a near miss of the statue of limitations.

You put clothes in chester drawers, don't you?

Irregardless, i could care less.

Let it fall by the waste side.

It may not jive with what you are saying.

But if that's what you think, you got another thing coming.

If you nipped it in the butt, you wouldn't need to be at one's beckon call.

On accident.

The case and point. It's all one in the same. It is ok to be self depreciating.
 
It's a good ideal to list them out:.

For all intensive purposes, it was a near miss of the statue of limitations.

You put clothes in chester drawers, don't you?

Irregardless, i could care less.

Let it fall by the waste side.

It may not jive with what you are saying.

But if that's what you think, you got another thing coming.

If you nipped it in the butt, you wouldn't need to be at one's beckon call.

On accident.

The case and point. It's all one in the same. It is ok to be self depreciating.

Mort Saul? Is that you?
 
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