Misquoted/misused phrases ...
... that really get my hackles up!
(apologies if we have done similar before, but it is my pet hate)
Here's my starter for ten ...
You do things off your own BAT, it comes from cricket and means succeed by your own endeavours, it has nothing to do with anatomy, and quite how you would do something off your own back unless you are a double jointed contortionist has always puzzled me!
My dander's up now ...
No, I don't have another thing coming, I have yet to have the first thing arrive, however, if my first thought was erroneous, I may well have a second think coming,
and its equally aggravating twin
Yes, you are correct, you don't know anythink as that is completely meaningless, and nor, apparently, do you know anything either!
Grrrrrrrrrrr.
ooohhh ... I think I'd better run for the hills ;)
Love the piccy, although it is a bit fearsome!
You lost me on the supplemantary post - is this some obscure way of making a point that simple souls such as myself cannot work out?
Damnation .. I just cannot find a piccy of a fearsome penguin :(
I'll have to make do with this one ....
Probably ...
... the reference was to people who ask me to be Pacific about things (my business partner being a prime offender!). But as a penguin you should be au fait with the southern end of that area!
hehe ... good one OGA :)
I did find these ....
EDIT: just removed the penguin army piccy ... just spotted some rude words on it ... but it was a very small font !!
.... but then I spotted these funny ones :)
Have you played this ...
... http://www.methodshop.com/games/play/yeti/yeti2.shtml
(there is a nasty one I couldn't bring myself to post a link for)
Possibly off tangent
But since I read what 'Akimbo' actually means it now bothers me when the phrase 'legs akimbo' is used.
If you can stand with your legs like the lady has her arms you have some weird joints!
Definitely off tangent
I don't think the reference is used to describe someone who is standing!
... or maybe you knew that already???
Shirley!
Are you suggesting what I think you are suggesting?!?!
The way I tend to see it is in (non Mills and Boon) books, where the hero stands proudly, legs akimbo. It causes me untold anger...
Ok, how about: 'Alas poor Yorick, I knew him Horatio' rather than 'well'.
Or 'Play it again Sam' (a pet hate seeing as I'm named for the character who speaks it).
After this thread ...
http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/group-thread/organisational-systems
could there be any doubt?
And my supplementary ...
... no I cannot be a ocean lying between the Americas, Asia and the Antipodes about something, however hard I try!