misunderstood words and phrases

As a child I thought "For all intents and purposes" was "For all intensive purposes."

I also thought that "Rhodes Scholar" was "Road Scholar," someone who knew lots about building and maintaining roads.

Lastly, I thought "Pulitzer Prize" was "Pulit Surprise," and imagined people jumping out and yelling "Surprise! Here's your Pulit! Whatever that was.

 

"I'm coming."

 

Coward

 

Blowjob

 

I surveyed people for over a decade, only to discover over half make up their own definitions for words, never knowing or suspecting in the slightest, that the dictionary merely contains popular definitions.

To nobody surprise, people commonly argue over the definition of stupid, while the famous Oxford evolutionary theorist and leader of militant atheists, Richard Dawkins, invented his own nonsense word "meme", encourage millions to babble complete nonsense for the last decade or longer, of course, in the name of survival of the fittest atheist. Linguists eventually gave the word a demonstrable definition, or it would have gone in the dictionary, encouraging billions more to babble bullshit nonstop.

It is my sincere hope to make millions of militant atheists and fundamentalists happy, by providing them with more meaningless bullshit to fight over, and using bots to exploit them for every penny they're worth. The most misunderstood terms of all is, "common sense" and "conventional wisdom", because nobody has ever documented their existence anywhere in the world, and half the world insist they exist.

 

technology, eye candy, "c" (the mathimatical constant and what it actually represents, as opposed to what it is usually called or refered to as),
logic (which a self serving perspective isn't), consideration/considarateness, the opposite of which is tyranny.
goodness, what is and isn't as measured by the resulting conditions people individually face to live in.
statistical consensus as method within human society and the impacts of human society beyond itself resulting there from.

oh yes, "common" sense and conventional "wisdom", these phrases would be absolute jokes
if people didn't make excuses out of them for not merely tolerating, but creating the most horrifying of conditions.

for what its worth, a pulit, back in my daddy's day, was a young chicken, older the hatchling but younger then a full adult. at least i thing that's what it ment. something to do with chickens anyway.

snu and henway are very old kitchen jokes.

 

And people from non English speaking countries, who inadvertently spell the word wrongly on the internet.

One of my favourite real life stories was the night that our friend was clearing up and emptying the ashtrays after a party and he asked an American guy for his 'butt'.

Perhaps the funniest ever stems back to the grammar used in Ireland, where when asking for something in a shop, you use the odd term "Don't you have any".
Seeing a customer asking for a loaf of bread in a bakers shop by asking "Don't you have any bread" always made me laugh.
In Ireland, the teats for babies bottles are called 'tits'
When our son was a baby, (more than 40 years ago), Jane rushed into the chemists shop just as they were closing and asked the gormless looking young girl at the counter. "Don't you have any tits".
I still remember the expression on that poor girls face today. It was Jane's complete oblivion to what she had just said that made it so funny.