What expressions (or words) drive you nuts?? - Part 2

Ahhhhhh as in the 'radiator' 'cools' down your engine. Obviously a mechanically inclined golfer. Thanks digger.

or radical. How about radically-cool? Oh. that would be frozen.

dahlianut, does that mean you say "rad-e-ator" instead of "ray-di-ator"? I think that's another regional thing.

I go both ways on that one Digger. I call the ones in cars ray-di-ators and the ones in old houses rad-e-ators. How funky weird is that? I just realized I do that.

i bet you say rad-e-AAAA -tor

Nope but we spelll it 'radiuator'.

i see the U!

It's a radiatah isn't it? Well if it's in Massachusetts anyway. :)

that's right ngam - and dnut is not telling the complete truth A dnut?

eh?
eh: a spoken interjection to ascertain the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed ("That was a good game last night, eh?"). May also be used instead of "huh?" or "what?" meaning "please repeat or say again." Frequently mis-represented by Americans as A, or hey. May have its origins from the French hein, which is pronounced in a very similar fashion. Tee hee

wha you are showing your 'American mis-representationalism'. Also you need to wear a lumberjack shirt and be drinking a beer when you say it for the full effect.

beer i have - lumberjack shirt only a couple :) Aye!

I worked for a few months as a tele-marketer. We weren't allowed to let people know we were in Canada but I could NOT stop saying eh? which is one of the reasons I was let go...

try Milwaukee--there you get ain't it after a sentance, often pronounced 'ainah'. From the German nicht varh--isn't that so? Spelling is off,

threegardeners that is too funny. I do it too ^_^ You know one thing I haven't noticed on this thread yet is the expression 'you know' which I heard alot in upper New York state you know when I was growing up you know.

you know, Dnut, you'll be hearing "you know" a lot when you visit.
Except that it will be pronounced "ya know", and if it starts a sentence it will have the prerequisite pause (a.k.a. aural comma), because that lends dignity to its use, ya know?
Your ears will also be treated to 'know what I mean" said "knowwuttamean".
I want a t-shirt that states: "Please speak to me in complete sentences".........

I have a good one! I have a good one! Absolutely honest to goodness truth.

My phone rings and it is a recording asking me to hang on b/c the telemarketer will be on the line momentarily to tell me about a not to be missed deal. ARE THEY INSANE???? now they want me to hold for the telemarketer?

It is at these moments that I have to rush out to the yard, look at pretty flowers and regain my composure, ya know whatta mean, dude?

Vossner they are have nerve! Thankfully the telemarketers have gone bye-bye here. New legislation allows you to register and they can't call you. Charities and a couple of others are exempt but the "You have won a condo in Tazmania if you just give me your credit card number' dudes have gone back to live under the rocks with the slugs.

I'd say telemarketers have dwindled in my area but they still annoy. We also have DO NOT CALL laws, but I'm not sure it was well enforced--too cumbersome, I guess.

People just have to report them. Very easy to do on line. www.donotcall.gov

Yea, I seemed to get more calls after I registered with Do Not Call. I'm wondering if they sold that list to them :-)

I registered with the do-not-call thing and hardly ever have telemarketers call. When they do call on a rare occasion, I just mention that I'm on the do-not-call list and they quickly apologize and I never hear from them again.

On the other hand, the charities drive me nuts! Goodness gracious! I never answer the phone during the day because 9 times out of 10, it's a charity. Wish there was a do-not-call list for them!

Personally, I would prefer the recorded message asking me to hold the line. It would give me a chance to hang up without hurting the person's feelings, lol!

I solve the charity problem in a hurry. When they ask me to donate for whatever I just tell them that I haven't eaten in 2 days and the hydro is about to be cut off...and ask them what they're doing to help people HERE...they apologize in a hurry and never call back.

Love it ,ThreeG. I tell them they aren't on my list this year . Digger

That is good threegardeners. I find the local charities come door to door and the phone calls are from charities I've never heard of. Best response to a telemarketer I know: "I'm sorry 'Bob' but being a witch I have no need for money and I don't have any. Thanks for calling and I will be sure to remember you 'Bob' during our ritual tonight".

I saw this once on a TV comedy show and thought it was hysterical, maybe Jerry Seinfeld? Jerry gets a telemarketing call and Jerry says that he's busy but he will return the call if telemarketer gives him his home number. Telemarketer balks at the idea and Jerry says, "well, then, why are you calling me at home".

I like that one, Dnut.

There is a great telemarketer respose on the internet where the recipient states they are a homicide detective that just arrived at the home that the telemarketer called. I can't do it justice, it is very funny.

I saw that, it may be on youtube, just google telemarketer joke with detective. That was really funny.

We spoke about telemarketers here last year sometime I remember. My favorite method of handling them was Pirl's. The caller would ask for 'so and so' and she'd say 'Oh yes! hold on a minute, let me get them' and then put the phone down and walk away, just to leave them hanging.

David, how funny!

I hate it when a recording asks me to hold to solve my credit card debt or renew the warranty on my car. They gotta be kidding me!

Before I got on the Do Not Call List, I used to tell the callers who asked for me that "She died." Never heard from them again.

What drives me nuts is people saying "really unique, quite unique, very unique. Unique is unique. . . it means there is ONLY ONE and there are no varying degrees of it.

How about "irregardless??? No such word!!

In a bad mood 'cuz I lost most of my tomatoes to "the blight."

thanks, Playin!
Modifying "unique" is like modifying "pregnant" - you either are or you aren't.

Yup.

Just came to look what's new here. Read about pisser, actually it is the American version from the French word 'pissoir'. In Brussels, Belgian there is a little statue called quite properly, "the pissoir boy" , perhaps many of you know that story.

I am pissoired off that the rain keeps me (and Candyce) from getting to our daily fix of DG!!! I do not recommend Wild Blue Satellite, for anyone living in the "no broadband" boonies who might be considering it. You pay full price and can go days without any internet; then, when I raised it with a customer service person, she said, "Well, for $15 more a month, we can add dial-up for those days you can't get the internet on the satellite." Am I the only one who finds that to be a pissoir???? LOL

I don't get that DonnieB. Is it from thick clouds? We are on satellite and it only ever went out once when the dish got buried in s*n*o*w. We don't get thick clouds here though. I do think that is a pissoir and vexatious too!

i would ask for a credit of the lost day - it usually does not add up to much - its the principle

Our phone turned into a party line for 3 months and not only didn't they give us a credit I had to keep fighting about LD and service charges that the other 'party' was racking up. I don't know why they call it a 'party line' cuz it isn't very partyish to have some other guy on your phone all the time.

wow - i would have changed my phone service and taken the credit by shorting the last bill with a letter explaining exactly what and why.

I should have wha now that I think about it but they have the best internet service I find. I just thought of another nonsensical expression in relation to DonnieB and Candyce's problem: 'heavy clouds'. Clouds aren't heavy or they wouldn't stay in the sky and yet people always say 'heavy cloud cover' instead of 'thick cloud cover'.