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I take joy in inventing new broken cliches and save them up for conversations. If I saw someone keeping score I'd ask them to publish a leaderboard so that I co
by delichon 2y ago
I take joy in inventing new broken cliches and save them up for conversations. If I saw someone keeping score I'd ask them to publish a leaderboard so that I could compete for bragging wrongs.
- jagged-chisel 2y ago> … bragging wrongs Brilliant.
- wut-wut 2y agoSame faml, same.
- chris_st 2y agoWhere I worked last the dress code was super relaxed, unless a bigwig or customer was expected. Made a co-worker laugh once by describing us as "Dressed to the ones".
- staticautomatic 2y agoYou don’t exactly have to be a rocket surgeon to invent them.
- heresie-dabord 2y agoSometimes such mistakes are genuinely intriguing revelations. For example, in TFA: "Read between the tea leaves.”
- gman2093 2y ago"We'll burn that bridge when we come to it" - one of my favorites
- sota_pop 2y agoI also know this joy. I also get a little internal delight intentionally mixing up “classic adages”. I have yet to encounter anyone who has caught it - most of the time it appears to just be perceived as weird. (e.g. people who live in glass houses sink ships)