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."

It wasn't a play on words when it was coined; now it is. It's only tired and lame if it's been used overmuch, which would only be true if it were used. The fact that any given person has never heard it before doesn't mean it hasn't been used or isn't correct. I maintain that "if you think that, then you've got another thing coming" is nonsense.