Alpo Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 They are in movies, but in real life? In the movie The Three Amigos, they get a telegram asking them to come to Mexico because of the infamous El Guapo. Two of them don't know the word, but the third one explains to the others that it means he is more than famous - he is IN famous. So they figure he is a great Mexican celebrity. In the movie Ruggles of Red Gap, this prospector strikes it rich and his wife takes him to Europe to see if she can get him a little bit of culture. While there he teaches a member of the British aristocracy how to play poker. And when they are ready to come back home, the Brit does not have the money to pay his debts. So he gives the prospector his valet. Ruggles (Charles Laughton). The wife sends a telegram back home saying that they're coming back and they're bringing a gentleman's gentleman with them. Nobody at home has ever heard of a gentleman's gentleman but since a "man's man" is more of a man than a regular man, obviously a "gentleman's gentleman" is more of a gentleman than a regular gentleman. And by the time the couple have returned to their little hometown with their British butler, the townspeople have decided that not only is Ruggles an aristocrat, but he is undoubtedly a colonel in the Coldstream Guards. This is a great movie, by the way. A really different Western. But it just makes me wonder if there are people out there really dumb enough to think that that's what infamous means, or that's what a gentleman's gentleman is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 17 minutes ago, Alpo said: But it just makes me wonder if there are people out there really dumb enough to think that that's what infamous means, or that's what a gentleman's gentleman is? Sure. The same people who think flouting is the same thing as flaunting. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 29 Author Share Posted March 29 Flaunting is showing off, while flouting is playing your flute? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 A flautist plays a flute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Heard it again just yesterday, when a newslady said of a miscreant that he had repeatedly flaunted the law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 this 57 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Most of us here are well educated, but look how often lose and loose get mixed up. Not to mention there, their, and they're, break and brake, or advice and advise. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oak Ridge Regulator Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 If you’re a cowboy and you know which end of the barrel the bullet comes out does the rest really matter ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 5 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Fixed it for ya. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 I wonder if people are really that foolish Just look at who gets elected. 3 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 15 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: I wonder if people are really that foolish Just look at who gets elected. He didn't get elected. The other side cheated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 1 minute ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: He didn't get elected. The other side cheated. There are more elected offices than POTUS. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Just now, Subdeacon Joe said: There are more elected offices than POTUS. No disagreement there. But he is the biggest. BTW, they did the same thing during the latest Arizona Gubernatorial Election. I hope that our side at least TRIES to stop them this time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 5 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: Most of us here are well educated, but look how often lose and loose get mixed up. Not to mention there, their, and they're, break and brake, or advice and advise. gotta remember that sometimes the computers AI / spell check / or whatever changes what was trying to be said - i know my voice / text stuff comes up with interesting interpretations of the words i meant to use /said on my phone , and a fat finger typo can turn lose to loose real fast whey you type fast with one finger wont say i havent misused a word , i have and will do again , but flouting the law is one ive not heard yet , but "...repeatedly flaunted the law....." that one i have heard , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Huckleberry Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Story goes that when Ripley opened his 'Believe it or Not' museum, he didn't want people to slow down his business by dawdling along to gawk at the exhibits, so he put up signs that said things like, 'Don't miss the egress!' and, 'This way to the egress!' Then when they walked through the door to see the egress, they were outside. Re underestimating the public -- Fool 'em once, shame on you. Fool 'em twice, shame on them. Fool 'em three times means you probably got re-elected. The 'flaunting the law' versus 'flouting the law' mix up is kind of in the same category as the 'could care less' versus 'couldn't care less' error. It's wrong, but has been used that way so often and so long that it's common use, and everyone knows what you mean when you say it. Maybe a while back, someone was flaunting their flouting of the law. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 2 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said: The 'flaunting the law' versus 'flouting the law' mix up is kind of in the same category as the 'could care less' versus 'couldn't care less' error. It's wrong, but has been used that way so often and so long that it's common use, and everyone knows what you mean when you say it. Like “congradulations” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 3 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said: flaunting the law' versus 'flouting the law' mix up is kind of in the same category as the 'could care less' versus 'couldn't care less' error. It's wrong, but has been used that way so often and so long that it's common use, and everyone knows what you mean when you say it. About like magazine and clip. Even in the 1980s there were advertisements that a rifle came with 2 clips. Everyone knew that what was meant was "detachable box magazine," a magazine that "clipped" into the rifle. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Sale & Sell get swapped a lot here! As in "I'd like to sale my rifle". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 18 hours ago, Alpo said: They are in movies, but in real life? In the movie The Three Amigos, they get a telegram asking them to come to Mexico because of the infamous El Guapo. Two of them don't know the word, but the third one explains to the others that it means he is more than famous - he is IN famous. So they figure he is a great Mexican celebrity. In the movie Ruggles of Red Gap, this prospector strikes it rich and his wife takes him to Europe to see if she can get him a little bit of culture. While there he teaches a member of the British aristocracy how to play poker. And when they are ready to come back home, the Brit does not have the money to pay his debts. So he gives the prospector his valet. Ruggles (Charles Laughton). The wife sends a telegram back home saying that they're coming back and they're bringing a gentleman's gentleman with them. Nobody at home has ever heard of a gentleman's gentleman but since a "man's man" is more of a man than a regular man, obviously a "gentleman's gentleman" is more of a gentleman than a regular gentleman. And by the time the couple have returned to their little hometown with their British butler, the townspeople have decided that not only is Ruggles an aristocrat, but he is undoubtedly a colonel in the Coldstream Guards. This is a great movie, by the way. A really different Western. But it just makes me wonder if there are people out there really dumb enough to think that that's what infamous means, or that's what a gentleman's gentleman is? Look at the results of the last dozen or more elections and then ask your question again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Foolish? I would reference the thread on nose rings… 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 23 hours ago, Dantankerous said: Foolish? I would reference the thread on nose rings… ... that distant braying sound is me, laughing ... ... oh dear God, I'm wiping tears from my eyes! Thank you, my friend, for whatever perverse reason, this one hit my funny bone and how! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashknife Cowboy Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 My favorite stupid person story is based upon someone who publicly stated in anger that they were going to sue us for, "defecation of character." Perhaps before they ventured into the world of 4 syllable words they needed to learn the difference between defecation and defamation..... 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 12 minutes ago, Hashknife Cowboy said: My favorite stupid person story is based upon someone who publicly stated in anger that they were going to sue us for, "defecation of character." Perhaps before they ventured into the world of 4 syllable words they needed to learn the difference between defecation and defamation..... Yup. My ex-wife misused self defecation when she meant self depredation once while she was lecturing me on some of her self aggrandized feminist nonsense. I couldn't stop laughing. And did my reaction make the situation better? It did not. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 On 3/29/2024 at 9:40 PM, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: He didn't get elected. The other side cheated. Interesting that you would say that in a thread about how foolish people are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Maverick Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 On 3/29/2024 at 1:50 PM, Alpo said: They are in movies, but in real life? In the movie The Three Amigos, they get a telegram asking them to come to Mexico because of the infamous El Guapo. Two of them don't know the word, but the third one explains to the others that it means he is more than famous - he is IN famous. So they figure he is a great Mexican celebrity. In the movie Ruggles of Red Gap, this prospector strikes it rich and his wife takes him to Europe to see if she can get him a little bit of culture. While there he teaches a member of the British aristocracy how to play poker. And when they are ready to come back home, the Brit does not have the money to pay his debts. So he gives the prospector his valet. Ruggles (Charles Laughton). The wife sends a telegram back home saying that they're coming back and they're bringing a gentleman's gentleman with them. Nobody at home has ever heard of a gentleman's gentleman but since a "man's man" is more of a man than a regular man, obviously a "gentleman's gentleman" is more of a gentleman than a regular gentleman. And by the time the couple have returned to their little hometown with their British butler, the townspeople have decided that not only is Ruggles an aristocrat, but he is undoubtedly a colonel in the Coldstream Guards. This is a great movie, by the way. A really different Western. But it just makes me wonder if there are people out there really dumb enough to think that that's what infamous means, or that's what a gentleman's gentleman is? Yes there is. There are people out there that think AOC can come from being a bartender with $500 in her account to being a politician now worth over $25 million on a salary of $174k a year legally in just 4 years. TM 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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