I am wearing a new dress today (this one [link] from the Land's End sale). happy making.

Am interviewing a potential new caregiver tonight. The house is a bit of a mess, but I did a quick clean-up of 2 areas this morning. I am hoping I can get home early enough to clean the litter out and do a quick mop of the entry way.

Oh, ok! Like imagining Hendrix to be singing "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

That's a mondegreen.

Like imagining Hendrix to be singing "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

This one is a poor example, as my mother swears that Hendrix used to deliberately sing it that way at live shows and point to "this guy" in the audience to make it clear.

(Besides, "The ants are my friends / they're blowing in the wind" is much funnier.)

Cute dress, msbelle!

"Wake up to find out that you are the size of a squirrel" is my favorite mondegreen.

My grandmother used to sing, "Crock of angels, left of me".

My line of reasoning, however, may indicate whether it was true or false, independent of what you or I thought it meant.

Uh, no. Its truth or falsehood is independent of how either you or I explain it. It is true. That's not up for debate.

I'm still not seeing this "another thing coming" explanation you keep talking about. I went back four pages, and I don't see one that makes sense, whereas the think one continues to make perfect sense to me--but even if it didn't, it wouldn't make it false--it would just mean I didn't get it.

The truth is, however, that people have been using thing since the early 1900s, and in fact more people use it than use the technically correct "think".

So you are right- the objective truth is that think is correct, but given usage changes, it seems as though thing is also correct and they are 2 separate phrases now.

My favorite mondegreen is "Happy as a rafter in the marketplace"

Heaven is a funky moose.

Uh, no. Its truth or falsehood is independent of how either you or I explain it. It is true. That's not up for debate.

I... don't know what you think this contributes to the discussion. In my previous post, I looked at the only example I have of "think" in context (its first usage in 1898), and there, it meant "X is about to find out how wrong he is", not "Think again". Has it changed in meaning since it was coined?

I'm still not seeing this "another thing coming" explanation you keep talking about. I went back four pages, and I don't see one that makes sense, whereas the think one continues to make perfect sense to me--but even if it didn't, it wouldn't make it false--it would just mean I didn't get it.

Here's how I first put it: "[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." The "other thing coming" is state of affairs C.

I added later: "The "other thing" does not correspond with the thought, but with the content or object of that thought." That is, "You've got another think coming" says that the thought is going to be supplanted. "You've got another thing coming" says that what the person thought to be the state of affairs will be supplanted; in this, it refers to a slightly different element of the situation than does "another think".

Good god, this is still being talked about? And argued about?