# An example of an "I accidentally a coca-cola bottle"-ism. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912 "2008-09-30T20:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/1 "2008-09-30T20:10:19Z")
It was in some paper or oth…wait, it was the Right-win… no it was in a magaz… no I… oh I can’t remember where it was, but wherever it was it was being quoted from a probably right-wing newspaper. See if you can spot the error… \*“If you find the idea of a dwarfish person with a high forehead releiving himself in a motel pool (this, a man who feigns a wheelchair-bound handicap), then Little Britain USA is for you.” \* The author probably doesn’t know he’s done it. In fact he would probably struggle to spot the mistake if someone told him it was in error. I put this in the pit because this type of language-laziness annoys me. Upon reading this the question “If you find it… _what?_, Good?, Bad? Entertaining?, Appealing?, Tasty?.. WHAAAAT!” formed itself in my head and would not go away. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/2 "2008-09-30T20:16:35Z")
Mini-rants thread is right below ya, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/3 "2008-09-30T20:19:03Z")
And what is it with airline food? ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/4 "2008-09-30T20:19:09Z")
A missing word?..offensive, appealing? If you find the idea of a dwarfish person with a high forehead releiving himself in a motel pool (this, a man who feigns a wheelchair-bound handicap) **funny** , then Little Britain USA is for you." ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/5 "2008-09-30T20:22:41Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > A missing word?..offensive, appealing? > If you find the idea of a dwarfish person with a high forehead releiving himself in a motel pool (this, a man who feigns a wheelchair-bound handicap) **funny** , then Little Britain USA is for you." correct. It’s as if he hasn’t finished his ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/6 "2008-09-30T21:08:18Z")
Moved to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/7 "2008-09-30T21:10:11Z")
Oh! :smack: I thought he had actually “found a dwarfish person with a high forehead releiving himself in a motel pool (this, a man who feigns a wheelchair-bound handicap)”. Hope he wasn’t planning on a swim soon. just kidding. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/8 "2008-09-30T21:19:22Z")
i before e? And depending on where “Little Britain” is, it may need a comma between it and “USA”. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/9 "2008-09-30T21:45:48Z")
I keep finding ideas, but not that one, so I guess the show’s not for me. The parenthetical looks a bit odd, too. The motel pool might well be the one feigning. And speaking of pedantry, what sort of handicaps are bound to wheelchairs? It is a spectacular fiery crash of a sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/10 "2008-09-30T22:36:55Z")
“My friend and I are going out to the bar. Do you want to go with?” … with _WHAT_?!?!? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/11 "2008-10-01T00:07:18Z")
I LOOOVE _Little Britain_! Especially the weight-loss club meetings in the community center. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/12 "2008-10-01T00:19:14Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I LOOOVE _Little Britain_! Especially the weight-loss club meetings in the community center. 😃 Me too. I haven’t seen any of LB USA but it sounds and looks (from pictures in the newspaper) like it might be worth a look. I am the first to admit that parodying Americans is likely to go down better with a British audience than an American one. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/13 "2008-10-01T00:26:14Z")
> [@](#): > > “My friend and I are going out to the bar. Do you want to go with?” That’s a standard construction in some dialects of English. Even if you pointed it out directly to your friends, they probably wouldn’t see any error. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/14 "2008-10-01T00:39:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > That’s a standard construction in some dialects of English. Even if you pointed it out directly to your friends, they probably wouldn’t see any error. That makes me grr as well. One of my friends uses it. It’s even worse than “anymore” for “nowadays” or “presently.” ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/15 "2008-10-01T01:31:37Z")
It’s as if his train of was lost in a blizzard of words. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/16 "2008-10-01T01:37:04Z")
Ye gads, they’ve Americanized Little Britain? Ugh. I always thought Little Britain was British comedy dumbed down to American levels…the British equivalent of Mad TV, if you will. I can’t imagine something that stupid being dumbed down further to be an import. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/17 "2008-10-01T15:31:06Z")
> [@Flander](#): > > “My friend and I are going out to the bar. Do you want to go with?” > … > > with _WHAT_?!?!? :mad: Actually, that is so last century. Currently that sentence is :“My friend and I are going to the bar. Go with?” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/18 "2008-10-01T15:33:48Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Ye gads, they’ve Americanized Little Britain? Ugh. I always thought Little Britain was British comedy dumbed down to American levels…the British equivalent of Mad TV, if you will. And I can’t imagine U.S. viewers tuning into something that’s that Britain-centric. I know Keeping Up Appearances draws some viewers on PBS, but as a big network show? “Little Britain USA?” Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/19 "2008-10-01T16:36:22Z")
> [@lee](#): > > Actually, that is so last century. Currently that sentence is :“My friend and I are going to the bar. Go with?” Pay for? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912/20 "2008-10-01T17:31:12Z")
And, as implied by an earlier poster, the word “relieving” is misspelled. _Little Britain_ just hasn’t clicked for me, though I do admire the British talent for grotesqueries. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-example-of-an-i-accidentally-a-coca-cola-bottle-ism/465912.md?page=2)