Author Topic: You keep using that word. I do not think (Read 10030 times)

dkw · « **on:** October 28, 2007, 03:58:06 PM »

A thread to post the delightful bloopers we hear. Especially if the person says them multiple times in a single meeting. Or conversation. Or whatever.

Today in a district church meeting we were asked to approve our Goals and Objections for the year.

rivka · « **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2007, 07:39:09 PM »

I could get behind that idea.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #2 on:** October 29, 2007, 08:30:45 AM »

I think the secretary where I work would be terrified if she found out an "ask murderer" was at large.

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **Reply #3 on:** October 29, 2007, 10:20:20 AM »

I feel your pain.

pooka · « **Reply #4 on:** October 29, 2007, 10:34:39 AM »

Unbeknownst to most people, the region south of Oklahoma was originally called "Teskas".

dkw · « **Reply #5 on:** November 04, 2007, 09:06:45 AM »

"Unique" != really cool. We have had the same "this week we have a unique opportunity" at least twice a month for the last year.

rivka · « **Reply #6 on:** November 04, 2007, 09:39:43 AM »

Of course not!

To mean "really cool" it requires a modifier. Like "truly unique" or "completely unique" or "going out of business sale!"

dkw · « **Reply #7 on:** November 04, 2007, 03:47:05 PM »

Um yeah. He actually says "truly unique" a lot of the time. For stuff that we do fairly often. And other congregations do just as often.

Noemon · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2007, 05:14:36 PM »

I think I've posted about this before, but I have a coworker who says "no pun intended" when she isn't making a pun. I always have to resist the temptation to say "none made".

Noemon · « **Reply #9 on:** November 05, 2007, 06:47:31 AM »

An employee was just talking about someone he knows having a "urinary track" infection.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #10 on:** November 05, 2007, 10:27:30 AM »

You know what can cause that? An enlarged prostrate.

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **Reply #11 on:** November 05, 2007, 11:34:12 AM »

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You know what can cause that? An enlarged prostrate.

Yeah, enlarged to three-lanes wide!

The Prostrate Super-Speedway!

theCrowsWife · « **Reply #12 on:** December 08, 2007, 06:34:56 PM »

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Muscovies are excellent foragers and can utilize large quantities of grass. If good quality forage is available pasteurized ducklings required only light feeds of grain once daily.

From Ridgway Hatchery's website on the product page.

--Mel

Jonathon · « **Reply #13 on:** December 08, 2007, 07:40:37 PM »

I'm guessing the problem is "utilize"? Yeah, that's weird. The tense shift in the second sentence is also weird, though not quite as jarring.

Noemon · « **Reply #14 on:** December 08, 2007, 08:50:13 PM »

The use of the word "pasteurized" is the weirdest part of that for me.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #15 on:** December 08, 2007, 09:38:38 PM »

Right. I doubt that "pasteurized" means that the duckies were allowed to romp around the pasture.

Porter · « **Reply #16 on:** December 08, 2007, 10:48:32 PM »

The word I've heard for that is "pastured".

Noemon · « **Reply #17 on:** December 09, 2007, 07:56:46 AM »

Exactly. "Pasteurized" /= "pastured"

theCrowsWife · « **Reply #18 on:** December 09, 2007, 08:13:37 AM »

Yes, "pasteurized" was the reason I posted that snippet, although it's true that there are other problems as well.

The sad thing is that I found that site through Polyface farms. I might order some of those Muscovies from them, since my usual hatchery doesn't carry them. I'm still looking, though.

--Mel

Jonathon · « **Reply #19 on:** December 09, 2007, 08:24:15 AM »

*slaps forehead*

I don't know how I missed that.

Noemon · « **Reply #20 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:25:44 AM »

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The sad thing is that I found that site through Polyface farms.

Why is that the sad part? I don't have enough context to know.

theCrowsWife · « **Reply #21 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:42:18 AM »

Oh, because they're probably one of the best-known pasture-based farms in the country. If you've read Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma, they're the farm featured there. So it's funny and sad that their preferred hatchery used the word pasteurized instead of pastured.

Sorry, I should have made that more clear. I knew that Porter would know what I was talking about, but I didn't think of other people.

--Mel

Farmgirl · « **Reply #22 on:** December 12, 2007, 10:29:45 AM »

What am I? chopped liver? (to use a Tante-ism). I have a link to Polyface too!

(great that you caught that, though, Mel. I probably would have read right over it and not even noticed the incorrect use)

Porter · « **Reply #23 on:** December 12, 2007, 10:42:24 AM »

In many ways I think it might be better to read right over it instead of getting hung up on what the word should mean instead of what the writer obviously meant.

JT · « **Reply #24 on:** December 12, 2007, 01:43:45 PM »

I have seen many, many occurences of 'segway' in place of 'segue' in the last six months in various internet communities.

*groan*