# I feel a 100% better than yesterday...ahh what??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-a-100-better-than-yesterday-ahh-what/835331>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 10, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-a-100-better-than-yesterday-ahh-what/835331 "2019-06-10T20:58:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-a-100-better-than-yesterday-ahh-what/835331/21 "2019-06-11T19:16:45Z")

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> [@guizot](#):
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> I take it to mean the same thing as when someone says, “I feel like a million bucks!”

It means they are all green and wrinkled.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-a-100-better-than-yesterday-ahh-what/835331/22 "2019-06-11T19:18:46Z")

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Or they are a very tightly-playing poker player who is also prone to spoonerisms who meant to say “I feel like a billion mucks!”

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**Author:** ![RedSwinglineOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-a-100-better-than-yesterday-ahh-what/835331/23 "2019-06-11T19:45:05Z")

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> [@glennwith2ns](#):
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> I feel a 100% better than yesterday…

Punctuation is key.

I feel a 100% **,** better than yesterday…

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**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-a-100-better-than-yesterday-ahh-what/835331/24 "2019-06-11T20:33:42Z")

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> [@RedSwinglineOne](#):
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> Punctuation is key.
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> I feel a 100% **,** better than yesterday…

Leave the article out, thus:

“I feel 100%, better than yesterday.”

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-feel-a-100-better-than-yesterday-ahh-what/835331/26 "2019-06-12T12:37:24Z")

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- I love you 100% more today than yesterday  
But it’ll be 150% tomorrow\*

Nah, that sucks. ☹

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