Sometimes I wonder where old saying originated from… “Have your cake and eat it too” What does that mean…? You can have your cake, and you can also eat it. What is the other option?
“Hey are you going to eat that cake?”
“Oh no, no, no, I’m just going to hold it.”
What about “the pot calling the kettle black.” So you’re telling me that back in the day someone saw that over time both the pot and the kettle turned black from being repeatedly used on the fire and decided this would be a good analogy to use when trying to call someone a hypocrite? Were our ancestors trying to find kinder ways to insult people? All that work just to tell someone they’re acting like a fool. Now all we use is a finger… Man we’re lazy and not very creative. I'm going to bring back the confusing longwinded analogy insults. Be ready...
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what about "pie in the sky"? that's the one i've always wondered about. so, you threw some pie up in the air? and now you're high? or happy? or both? doesn't it just come back down and get you all dirty and blue?
Right?! Ridiculous. Apparently "pie in the sky" has a religious background and ties into the reward that comes after death. But how they got from the magic of Heaven to pie... I don't even like pie... Does that mean I won't like Heaven? I wonder if I could substitute in Skittles...
ha. you wanna talk about skittles? http://stuffchristianslike.net/2008/05/251-the-everyone-is-on-vacation-anything-goes-church-service-aka-tomorrow/
yeah.
I just saw this. You find me a church that throws skittles at my head and I'll strongly consider going. No snakes though.. I'm not crazy
I'm still waiting for you to post the long winded analogy insults.
i stumbled across here through random friends of friends of friends or so and i've got to say i love it here.
so the "have your cake and eat it, too." bit bothered me so much one day i looked up the reasoning and found it's just a very poorly phrased way of saying, "you can't have two wins."
you can't have your cake if you've eaten it. because it's been eaten.
i think they should've said, "you can't eat your cake and have it, too." or even "you can't eat your cake and have it... still."
the one that hurts my very core is, "stop beating around the bush." because IT in its essence, is beating around the bush. it's a metaphor for "be blunt." BUT IT'S A METAPHOR.
ok, i'm not going to turn this into a spammy essay, just wanted to say i dig what you're writing and i'm glad i stopped in.
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