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PSA: "Intensive Purposes" is not a thing!

  1. Boogs

    hostess / papaya / 10540 posts

    Stuff like this drives me as nuts as much as people who think there so funny, but are really just two loud in their FB status updates or anywhere else like that!

  2. mrbee

    admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts

    @Boogs: I hate you.

  3. Mrs Green Grass

    pomelo / 5628 posts

    Ha! Thank you!

  4. BSB

    hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts

    @Mrs. Jacks: Haha. Well, there is a business out there called 'Taken for Granite." My sister and BIL owns a granite business and that was one my sister told me about when we were helping her come up with a name for her company.

  5. joyjoy

    clementine / 994 posts

    LOL. I clicked this to see what "Intensive Purposes" were, and instead I'm biting my lip to keep from laughing too loud at work!

  6. Boogs

    hostess / papaya / 10540 posts

    @mrbee: Your welcome.

  7. DigAPony

    pear / 1787 posts

    This thread reminds me of bitch sessions I have with my fellow grad students who teach freshman comp. I got one the other day I'd never seen before: something like "the problem lye's in the public's right to...blah blah blah." LYE'S?! How does this happen?

  8. cyneswith

    persimmon / 1202 posts

    I love you all SO MUCH for this... First time I read intensive purposes, it actually took me a few minutes to figure out what they meant. Then it was "OMG, you know how to spell intensive, but not what that phrase actually is?"

    Though I too thought it was chomping at the bit (which still makes etymological sense.)

  9. cupcakemama

    persimmon / 1465 posts

    Wahla ( or variations) is the one that always slays me/ has me alternating between "you idiot!" and laughter.

  10. Maysprout

    grapefruit / 4800 posts

    Say la vee mrbee. Foe pa's don't bother me.

  11. banana

    coconut / 8299 posts

    Ok now I have a question. Which one is right (because I'm never consistent with how I spell this out)?

    I used to like cheese but I don't any more.

    OR

    I use to like cheese but I don't anymore.

    Anyone?

  12. Rock n Roll

    kiwi / 678 posts

    My ex-boyfriend had some really weird ones I had never heard anyone else do except for him- my favorite was "note to south" instead of "note to self". I asked him what the thought that was supposed to mean and he just said he never thought about it before. And "boo-coo" instead of beaucoup. He also said "sled-riding" instead of "sledding" and "ink pen" instead of "pen", although I think those ones might just be from growing up in different places. But really, aren't all pens ink pens?

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