It's not supposed to be grammatical, it's supposed to be amusing!
When you leave grammar, you've gone to the dark side.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Aug 01, 2012 5:45:44 pm PDT #16463 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
smonster - Aug 01, 2012 5:46:20 pm PDT #16464 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
"THINK" is not a noun. It would be "thought."
It's an idiom! Damn!!
Aha! Think is a noun. Or was when the saying originated - [link]
“Think” is a noun as well as a verb. “Think” the noun first appeared around 1834 meaning “an act or period of thinking” (“Let’s have a cigar and a quiet think,” 1891), and, by 1886, “a thought” or “an idea” (“A thing must be a think before it be a thing,” 1887). We rarely see this noun form of “think” today (outside of this particular phrase), but in the late 19th century when the phrase became popular, “another think coming” would have been understood as equivalent to “another thought coming,” i.e., a change of mind.
Amy - Aug 01, 2012 5:46:49 pm PDT #16465 of 30001
Because books.
We'll always have fang lewdness, Amy.
::clings::
Beverly - Aug 01, 2012 5:46:56 pm PDT #16466 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
No, you must revere the Huxtable sweater! Think! Sick. AND tired!
Um, house, Kate? For reals? Are there, like pictures yet, or are you still in HOMG, house maybe?
I has no useful information on refis, but I wish you well.
As I embrace the poor, loveable wrongheaded thingers.
Ginger - Aug 01, 2012 5:46:59 pm PDT #16467 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've always thought it was "thing," but apparently the OED thinks "think." [link]
It's definitely pike, though.
eta: Smonster and I are sisters in Google.
Zenkitty - Aug 01, 2012 5:48:38 pm PDT #16468 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
When you leave grammar, you've gone to the dark side.
Are you telling me there is no (other) instance of ungrammatical-yet-acceptable-because-amusing plays on words in literature or popular culture? I wish I were more than passing familiar with Shakespeare's works; I'll bet he coined a few of them.
Also, cookies.
Steph L. - Aug 01, 2012 5:49:01 pm PDT #16469 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
It's not supposed to be grammatical, it's supposed to be amusing! It's a play on words! Why is there no whimsy in your soul?
It's not a play on words; it's a threat! Threats have way more teeth when they're grammatical!
My whimsy was in the tooth that got pulled. I had a whimsectomy.
Steph L. - Aug 01, 2012 5:49:19 pm PDT #16470 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Also, cookies.
I want cookies.
smonster - Aug 01, 2012 5:50:44 pm PDT #16471 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
::high-fives Ginger for the x-posted link::
Please tell me no one here says "for all intensive purposes." Please. Can I cling to that hope?
-t - Aug 01, 2012 5:51:38 pm PDT #16472 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tep's been de-whimsified! Oh no!
Annie's Boobs! Blorgons!
We may need to install bionic zombie whimsy.