Common sayings that are wrong or butchered

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Sunoco 260 was around 100 octane we ran in 11:1, mine was 13.2:1 and ran 110 purple.

 

[Baby Grand]

From a former boss (who was a fantastic manager):

It's like peeling back the layers of a tomato.​

As Muhammad Ali said, "I'll be back".​

My guys have entramanureal spirit!​

Bugs Bunny always beat Elmer Fudge.​

Penn State Nifty Lions.​

Curve your dog.​

That file cabinet is full of vanilla folders on the subject.​

Trank: A heavy, armored vehicle.​

How to Influence Friends and Make People.​

The court sent him a cease & exist order.​

That lawyer has never lost a suit case.​

He was such a good "people person" that those of us lucky enough to work for him would go to extreme lengths to make him succeed. When top management asked how on Earth he managed to get something done he'd never take personal credit - he'd always say something like "the team pulled together and made it happen". That said, getting through a serious meeting without cracking up was sometimes impossible when he dropped one of those lines on us.

 

[Oaktree]

That file cabinet is full of vanilla folders on the subject.

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When I was a kid I thought that was what they were called, figured it was because they were the color of vanilla ice cream.
I just Googled why folders are called manila, turns out they were once made from a type of hemp that grows in the Philippeans.

 

[JasperFrank]

People still use the term, that their computer "Crashed." Most computers now don't "crash'" as they use SSDs and are not using flying heads on spinning disks. There isn't anything to crash in a modern computer. I get requests for data recovery and the person keeps saying there was a crash on a SSD. I just refuse doing service here, cause its an electronic component that has failed, one of a thousand little surface mounted chips, that would take me days to figure out.... and no one wants to pay THAT MUCH, for me to isolate and fix it, for the recovery. With the tools I have, I can read near everything off a crashed spinning hard drive. I can't do that for an SSD. You are completely messed up, if that was the only system you were using. Don't wish to blame the victim here but we did get sold a pig in the poke about SSDs. If thats anyone's system, you need a backup method to keep your data some where else ALWAYS and often. I use external drives, and just clone the whole SSD as an image.

 

[Pixguy]

A saying I heard growing up was "Useless as teets on a bull"

 

[Jim Shooz]

Or an ashtray on a motorbike...........or a chocolate teapot

 

[Jstpssng]

Or an ashtray on a motorbike...........or a chocolate teapot

I once tried to eat an ice cream on a motorcycle... that didn't work out very well.

 

[tallyho8]

"Jump that hill" she said. I was 15 and had just bought my 1958 Simplex motorbike and a girl at school who I had been dying to meet, asked me to take her for a ride after school. We went behind the levee where they had piles of pump sand stacked up where I had never ridden before. She said jump that hill and although I had never ridden off road before I told her to hold on and cranked it up and hit the hill as fast as I could go. Not halfway up the hill we both flew off, luckily landing in some soft sand with me on top of her with my hands in an embarrassing position on her chest and before I could catch my senses, she kisses me on the lips and said "that was great". We rounded up my bike and I brought her home before her parents got wise as to why she was late.

Before I saw her next time she had already met a new boyfriend with a new Honda 50 that could leave my Simplex in the dust and I never talked to her again. In years to come I saw her at the drag strips and she had set a new record in the quarter mile on her bike and I felt so special that I had been the first person to ever ride her on a bike. (at least half way up the hill)

 

[BravoXray]

People still use the term, that their computer "Crashed." Most computers now don't "crash'" as they use SSDs and are not using flying heads on spinning disks. There isn't anything to crash in a modern computer. I get requests for data recovery and the person keeps saying there was a crash on a SSD. I just refuse doing service here, cause its an electronic component that has failed, one of a thousand little surface mounted chips, that would take me days to figure out.... and no one wants to pay THAT MUCH, for me to isolate and fix it, for the recovery. With the tools I have, I can read near everything off a crashed spinning hard drive. I can't do that for an SSD. You are completely messed up, if that was the only system you were using. Don't wish to blame the victim here but we did get sold a pig in the poke about SSDs. If thats anyone's system, you need a backup method to keep your data some where else ALWAYS and often. I use external drives, and just clone the whole SSD as an image.

Computers and and mechanical hard drives can both crash.
If the computer crashes, it has most likely run into a software error or has been fed bad data that wasn't error checked.
You have seen the "Blue Screen Of Death" when Windows crashes haven't you?

 

[BravoXray]

A saying I heard growing up was "Useless as teets on a bull"

The version I heard was "Useless as teets on a boar hog."