Stupid Sayings

From the George Carlin library.

More than happy . "They had to put him away. He was...., brrrrrrr...., more than happy".:eek:

Legally drunk. "Officer, what's the problem? My friend is legally drunk". o_O

Near miss. "The planes hit each other's wings and both planes went down. It was a near miss". :?
 
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This may not be a "saying" in the annals, but it's certainly said often enough both in movies and in life:
Everything will be all right.
the even more dishonest version:
Everything will be all right - I promise.
 
geordief said:
Should that rather go in the "post a new word or phrase" thread?
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It is not new.
It is a stupid term. Unfair discrimination is simply unfair discrimination, regardless of who is on either end of it. It is useless to have a special name for it.

Maybe I should have said such in the original post.

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I promise. I give you my word.

When someone tells me something, they are either telling the truth or mistaken or joking or lying. When they say either of the above, it does not help me to know they are telling the truth or will do what they say they will do & it does not increase my trust in them.

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StrangerInAStrangeLand said:
I promise. I give you my word.

When someone tells me something, they are either telling the truth or mistaken or joking or lying. When they say either of the above, it does not help me to know they are telling the truth or will do what they say they will do & it does not increase my trust in them.

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"To tell you the honest truth..."
...is probably followed by a lie.
 
StrangerInAStrangeLand said:
The vast majority of pots & many kettles are not black.
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They were when people cooked over open fires and made up this saying. These days, people think of a tea-kettle, but what the saying most likely refers to is a deep cauldron sort of container for heating wash-water, very similar to the soup-pot - that being the point.

Argh, faith an beggorrah, but I've become an apologist for ancient maxims!
 
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