Because he’s Rob Fucking Halford, that’s why.

srsly

Because he’s Rob Fucking Halford, that’s why.

He is also wrong

"I was walking down the street just a-having a think /when a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink..."

Thing, cilantro, pike, Oxford comma, intents and purposes.

I have now been earwormed with Judas Priest.

Kate, adorable house.

(I looked at how many posts there were in Natter since about 5 pm today, and I immediately thought, "Who died?")

Huh. For some reason that Rolo ad made me think of foreskins. I don't know if that's on me or that's on them.

I used to love Rolos.

UNTIL NOW.

women still get wooly, right?

Because of all the stress.

Having looked up the Judas Priest song, I note that wikepedia* says:

The song's title is an eggcorn idiom, in use since at least 1919,[4] from the original expression, "You've got another think coming," published as early as 1898.

*yes, I know, but the article does cite the Syracuse Standard in 1898 -- "Conroy lives in Troy and thinks he is a coming fighter. This gentleman has another think coming. It is probable that McCoy will next meet Joe Choynski."

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?

Ok, it's at this point that you lose me. I get why you argue that "think" is the original form; I am completely lost on the notion that anyone thinks it is funny. It's not whimsical; it's tired and lame. And ungrammatical; smonster's link showed that it was grammatical when first coined, but that "think" is no longer used as a synonym for a thought, unless you count that particular phrase. (Brits and Aussies do still say "have a think", but there it's a synonym for the thought process, not a specific thought.)

I will also note, given that when it was coined it was apparently grammatically correct, it would not at that time have been a play on words. Plays on words pretty much by definition have to use them in unexpected ways. I confess at this point I've no idea how it ever caught on, or why people would keep using it today.

So here's my position: first, I've never heard anyone use the phrase "you've got another think coming". I've certainly never used it. I myself have used the phrase "You've got another thing coming". Not often, but hey. It is perfectly grammatical. It is not intended to be whimsical - at best, light-hearted, but it's not a 'joke' turn of phrase or any such. It is versatile. It applies to any situation with the construction [Person A] [expects state of affairs B] but [there will instead be state of affairs C], whether B and C were thoughts, beliefs, feelings, scientific theories, fates, facts in the early Wittgensteinian sense or parcels from UPS. (Oh, that reminds me: NO SERIAL COMMA!)

As far as I'm concerned, it has no relation in modern (and certainly my ) usage to "you've got another think coming", which as noted I've never heard before. They both look very much the same; so do flying squirrels and sugar gliders. It is an example of linguistic convergent evolution. You can go ahead and use your phrase, and I will, on the very rare occasions it even matters, use mine. The only implication they have for each other is that mine has a cooler name and a pouch for carrying its young.

I'm not going to ask how you all feel about "per say." I can't take the disappointment.

Because of the internet, I now look at the word "misled" and think "mizzled."