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[CortJstr]

He was staring up your shorts at your tidy whities the whole time, too.

I thought it was "tighty whities"

[jough]

Yeah, your mother may tell you to make sure you're wearing clean underware in case you're in an accident or something, but it's "tighty whities" because they keep your boys snug.  

My whities are both tight and tidy, however.

Also, I bought new "Hanes" under##### and they have a grey waistband, which I don't like.  If I'm wearing white undies I want them to be all white.  Dammit.

[AlohaDawg]

Mine are tighty and tidy and you're right, it's tightie, I type phonetically sometimes which is really weird.

[jough]

Someone on another message board once said that they did something a certain way "from the gecko" instead of "from the get-go" and I think this is the same kind of mistake.

Stupid brains.

[CortJstr]

Someone on another message board once said that they did something a certain way "from the gecko" instead of "from the get-go" and I think this is the same kind of mistake.

It took me years to decipher "for all intents and purposes"

[arkabee]

Someone on another message board once said that they did something a certain way "from the gecko" instead of "from the get-go" and I think this is the same kind of mistake.

It took me years to decipher "for all intents and purposes"

do folkers who are purposefully intense cause you troubles?

[Mr Trout]

Someone on another message board once said that they did something a certain way "from the gecko" instead of "from the get-go" and I think this is the same kind of mistake.

It took me years to decipher "for all intents and purposes"

do folkers who are purposefully intense cause you troubles?

Nah, it's the porpoises in tents that he can't wrap his mind around. HOW DO THEY STAY WET?!?

[jough]

Someone on another message board once said that they did something a certain way "from the gecko" instead of "from the get-go" and I think this is the same kind of mistake.

It took me years to decipher "for all intents and purposes"

Um, that is correct.  The expression is "for all intents and purposes."

Did you mean to type it wrong but then typed it right by accident?  That must be some other kind of brain-o.

[CortJstr]

Someone on another message board once said that they did something a certain way "from the gecko" instead of "from the get-go" and I think this is the same kind of mistake.

It took me years to decipher "for all intents and purposes"

Um, that is correct.  The expression is "for all intents and purposes."

Did you mean to type it wrong but then typed it right by accident?  That must be some other kind of brain-o.

No, I meant it took me years to realize that was the expression since I'd never seen it written down. I thought it was "intensive purposes" or some such.

[slink]

No, I meant it took me years to realize that was the expression since I'd never seen it written down. I thought it was "intensive purposes" or some such.

I've seen it written like that many a time. Then again there are so many expressions I see typed in wrong on various fora, and it bugs the hell out of me, but I can't remember any of the gems off the top of my head.

It makes me think of Jocelyn in Twin Peaks who gets expressions slightly wrong all the time ("Push the plug")!

[Gimpson]

I've seen it written like that many a time. Then again there are so many expressions I see typed in wrong on various fora, and it bugs the hell out of me, but I can't remember any of the gems off the top of my head.

There's a whole database of em here.

[AlohaDawg]

I'm famous!

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tighty-whitey » tidy-whitey, tidy-widy

Classification: English – genuine

Spotted in the wild:

    * Fruit of the Loom underwear gave nearly 100 percent of its corporate donations to tidy-whitey-wearing Republicans… (Gay and Lesbian Review, March-April 2005, p. 4)

The rhyming expression “tighty-whitey” or (plural) “tighty-whities” for ‘men’s briefs’ has been in use since at least 1990, sometimes in this order, occasionally with the elements reversed (”whitey-tighty”, “whitey-tighties”), and with several variant spellings (”tightie-whitie” and the like). Thanks to intervocalic flapping, “tighty” (with reference to tightness) was open to reinterpretation as “tidy” (with reference to neatness and cleanliness, certainly desirable qualities in underwear). See the discussion in my Language Log posting Tidy-whiteys.

The “whitey” element is open to reinterpretation for the same reasons, as “widy” (with reference to width), and at least a few speakers seem to have reanalyzed it, as Mark Liberman observed in his Language Log posting Raising and lowered those tighty whities.

[jough]

A friend of mine used to work for a credit company and he processed complaints.  He kept track of the horrible writing and english that people used, but the only one I can remember is that someone asked for something to be taken off his credit report because "it would be a nice jester on your part."

We still laugh about this.

[jough]

Also, I see people use "chomping at the bit" instead of "champing at the bit" all the time.  He's not biting it, people, he's pulling against it.  You know, like a hoss.

Also, people misuse "ballistic" to mean the opposite of its actual meaning.  When someone is "going ballistic" it means that they're getting tired, going to sleep, etc., not getting crazy and excitable.  The ballistic trajectory of a falling object (like a bomb or a rocket) is when it is unpowered and FALLING.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I hate the misuse of the word "literally."  Some people seem to think it's a form of emphasis.  I was watching a football game and after a sack the color guy said "He literally took his head off."  NO, fuck*ng moron, if he had literally taken the quarterback's head off there would be blood all over the goddamned place, and you and everyone else in the stadium would be shrieking in horror.