12.01.2010

Until about two months ago

whenever I heard someone say, "Struggling to make ends meet." what my mind was hearing was, "Struggling to make ends meat." and it didn't really make sense to me but I thought, hey, It is hard to buy meat when you're at the end of your monies. And then I went on my merry way for 24 years.

But for some reason the other month, my brain suddenly realized it was a m-f'n homophone and then the world turned upside down and I got a little queasy and I had to sit down and eat a some cheez-its.
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Unknown said...

J & B-
Well, let the revelations continue-seeing as I only now, as in I turn 25 next week, thought of that saying the 'right' way...as I made sure and asked Phil if he knew that the saying was not in fact, in relation to any sort of "ends meat"...oh my.. Then I thought about other small interpretive errors I've made in my life:
1) when i was a small child, i couldn't help but be confused with "Help Wanted" signs in store windows-- I was under the impression that store owners were urging their patronizers to Help THE Wanted...as in WANTED criminals... I debunked that one only about 10 years ago.
2) I was certainly squabbling with Philip, or doing something intellectual-like, trying to make a gem of a jab when i uttered the phrase, "for all intensive purposes...yaddayaddayadda" to which he responded, "did you just say intensive purposes?" Low and behold-- intents and purposes it 'tis.

Thanks for helping a lowly med student further expand her colloquialism repertoire.

However, for the record, I will always subscribe to ends meat.

thanks for the comedy, lassies.

February 1, 2011 at 10:41 PM
Julie said...

Hey, Regan!

Intents and purposes was a doozie, fo' sho'. I still prefer when people say it the wrong way. It just says to me, "here I am world. I ain't classy, but I'll sure continue to try and sound like it." And I like when people say it and then both parties involved in the communication kind of pause, like "What the hell does that truly mean?" and then they just continue talking, thus proving it doesn't matter in the grand steam of things.

(it IS 'grand steam'? right? as in the steam coming off a heated debate?)

March 12, 2011 at 10:06 AM

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