I will NEVER use the expression "Sounds like a plan!" Any plan you make IS a plan.
"I'm going to jump off a bridge."
"Sounds like a plan."
Well, yeah, it IS a plan, by definition.
Just a f***ing stupid one!
Thanks for your time.
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lol so you are never going to use it again? Sounds like a plan!
ReplyDeletehmmm yeah, when really thinking about it it is stupid. Do plans even have sound?
DeleteNot sure if plans do have a sound, but someone can have a "sound plan," so maybe...?
DeleteI've always liked that phrase for when someone comes up with a spectacularly bad plan. Kind of like saying, "Wow, look at you!" when they're dressed horribly or have a bad haircut.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm asked how I like something which I really don't like, a Scorpio like myself won't lie, but neither do I want to insult or offend, so I may use an ambiguous word like "interesting." Having said that, my friends and acquaintances have long since learned not to ask me my honest opinion of something if they really don't want to hear it.
DeleteI'm with Lynda, and I don't think that means we should wear t-shirts that say "I'M WITH STUPID."
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
The t-shirt thing reminds me of thirty-five or forty years ago, when my sister and I would go bar-hopping together. Most people, male and female, would look at the two of us and assume we were husband & wife or boyfriend & girlfriend. (The only people who knew differently were the people we told, who always said they could tell anyway, by the strong family resemblance. That's the same "family resemblance" that all the others didn't notice.) Potential dates for both Kathy and myself would stay away because they figured we were already "taken." Anyway, to eliminate this confusion, I often threatened to have a t-shirt made for myself that said "Kathy's brother" but I never did.
DeleteSo true! And yet... I use it all the time. It's like chocolate. I eat too much of that stuff.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Stan Lee is gone and I can't believe it.
Yeah, I'll be posting about Stan next week (probably). Amazing to think that maybe half of what I read in my early years was written by Stan (and I'm referring to those few comics written by others at Marvel, those written for other comic companies, and all the other, non-comic stuff I read back then, too).
DeleteWould you be more tolerant of 'looks like a plan' I wonder? Not that I'd use that either. Most plans fall apart anyways just when you are sure you have one.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about Stan Lee, I know you will feel this keenly.
Well, it wasn't the verb I was kvetching about as much as the whole concept of saying something so pointless and unnecessary. If I drove up to your house in my car, whether it was a Mustang, a Rolls Royce, or a beat-up 1974 Dodge Dart, would you point at it and say "That looks like an automobile?" Heh.
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