# The next time I hear "my bad" I will kick someone in the head!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 29, 2002, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337 "2002-07-29T06:25:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/41 "2002-07-30T00:10:08Z")
> [@](#): > > _Happy Lendervedder_ > "Supposebly, the memo sent out yesterbay regarbing the ‘legenbary status’ of Presibent Forb was fraubulant. I unberstanb now that you shoulbn’t believe everything you reab.” It could be that these people have a constant cold… it could also be that they are dyslexic, since reversing b and d is a classic sign of dyslexia, especially in supposebly since it has douple bs in it which makes it even more confusing. This one is even harder: deb, beb, no wait d…ahhhhh then you eventually get it. Bill Gates is the dest frienb of dyslexics Sparc\* [sub]\*dyslexic with only a mild b/d reversal problem, but constantly transposes letters, words and syllables.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/42 "2002-07-30T00:13:22Z")
Yes, as its usage indicates, “my bad” is, in fact, a rough translation of “mea culpa”. Now, for some kid in a Catholic school to say “my bad” to an old Nun… ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/43 "2002-07-30T00:21:42Z")
Mom: Get your butt over here. Me: I’m sitting right now so its’ little busy. I can lend you my left hand if you want. I always wanted to say that, but I value my life too much. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/44 "2002-07-30T04:00:53Z")
I will add a third (apparently recent) phrase to the pot. “Cool Beans” WTF IS THAT MEAN??? c’est n’est pas un bump ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/45 "2002-07-30T04:06:57Z")
Actually heard today: “I think that’s sufficient enough.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/46 "2002-07-30T04:13:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cuate \* > \*\*I will add a third (apparently recent) phrase to the pot. “Cool Beans” > \*\* I think this is an Iowa-ism that has spread throughout the country. I never heard it before 3 years ago, but two close friends in their later 30s/early 40s who are both from Iowa grew up saying “Cool Beans.” And no, I’m not quite sure what it means. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/47 "2002-07-30T04:24:45Z")
“Fucking A” is used to denote an affirmative?? The only way I hear it around here is similar to other swearing, and I always took it to mean something like “damn” or “shit”. And I have heard “intensive purposes” and “I could care less” from childhood, and always thought they made no sense! ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/48 "2002-07-30T04:51:48Z")
Several months ago, a member of my family broke new ground in snapping the rules of the English language in two like a toothpick. She was a pioneer of ungrammatical constructions, an explorer into the unknown realms of Bad Grammar (which could be a state in Germany - no, wait, that’s Baden-Württemberg). Her masterpiece was as follows: “I don’t never see nobody here no more!” The amazing, vanishingly rare _quadruple negative!_ Only seen in the wilds of Georgia and a few preserves in surrounding states! Luckily, I trapped it. It’s out there gettin’ fat in its pen, so, come slaughterin’ time, **Lodrain** ’s gonna be eating goooood. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/49 "2002-07-30T05:20:41Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Kalashnikov_ > Osiris, don’t you say “the Big Island” rather than just “Big Island”? Isn’t it a descriptive term like “the west coast” which needs the word “the” rather than a name like “Long Island” which doesn’t? Hope you and **Osiris** don’t mind a former O’ahuan stickin’ her nose in. Yes, it’s “the Big Island”, with the ‘the’. The pidgin here is such that you probably could say, “Wednesday, I going Big Island!” and no local would think it a funny-sounding sentence. But when it appears in print or is spoken by more refined individuals :D, it’s “the Big Island”. I have heard “Fuckin’ A” used as an affirmative, in the “Damn straight!” sense: Guy: Candi-Ann’s gotta be an airhead if she’s dating a guy like Tommy. Guy 2: Fuckin’ A. He’s a total loser. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/50 "2002-07-30T05:39:00Z")
I think I kind of gather from context what “Word up!” is supposed to _mean_ (something like an emphatic agreement, maybe?), but why does it mean that? “Word up” in English doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/51 "2002-07-30T05:42:37Z")
A few Aussie gripes… (1) “In one foul swoop” - I understand the saying hails from falconry where the falcon falls from the sky and performs a “fell swoop”. (2) “Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi” - my overseas friends? Feel free to translate this as “Aussie Aussie Aussie, DUMB DUMB DUMB!” (3) “See ya next time” - well DERR! When else are ya gonna see me? (4) “On the basis of… blah blah blah” - I don’t know why, but that one saying seems to have taken off like a rabbit virus down here. You hear salesmen saying it all the time in business calls. ---
**Author:** ![gus28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@gus28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gus28)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/52 "2002-07-30T06:18:02Z")
The two that get me are “word” usually to express agreement with something that I said earlier, and after they say something adding “ya know what I’m saying?” I would really love to know where that last one got started, go back in time and talk his/her mother into having an abortion. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/53 "2002-07-30T06:36:36Z")
Yes, “my Bad” and “Fuckin’ A” are stupid phrases. But that just means they need more love and attention than the other phrases. 🙂 I personally hate “I could care less”, do you hear what you are saying(never with the sarcastic tone on ‘could’ or ‘less’ that would make it make sense)? The original saying was ~“The king knows nothing and could care less” but does anyone care about the elegant origins of this saying? No, the idots just think they are saying “I **couldn’t** care less”. j/k i guess… ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/54 "2002-07-30T06:57:26Z")
No problem Audrey. All help is appreciated. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalashnikov \* > \*\*Osiris, don’t you say “ **the** Big Island” rather than just “Big Island”? Isn’t it a descriptive term like “the west coast” which needs the word “the” rather than a name like “Long Island” which doesn’t? \*\* I’m sorry, but isn’t that exactly what I said? _scratches head_ Anyway it’s both descriptive and a nickname. A nickname in the same vein as individual US states. Much like all states in the US have nicknames so to do our main islands. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/55 "2002-07-30T06:58:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Boo Boo Foo \* > \*\*A few Aussie gripes… > > (1) “In one foul swoop” - I understand the saying hails from falconry where the falcon falls from the sky and performs a “fell swoop”. > > \*\* Wouldn’t that be a “fowl swoop”? 😃 (Sorry, couldn’t resist.) ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/56 "2002-07-30T07:04:03Z")
Waaaay back, when I was in high school, one of my teacher’s wrote this comment on one of my papers: Please try and write more neater ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/57 "2002-07-30T07:04:04Z")
Waaaay back, when I was in high school, one of my teachers wrote this comment on one of my papers: Please try and write more neater ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/58 "2002-07-30T09:47:48Z")
“fell swoop:” the word “fell” in this case means “terrible,” as in “the fell hand of death.” ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/59 "2002-07-30T11:59:05Z")
[Dave Letterman] And the number 1 pop saying that pisses me off. 1. Two letters: A - X [/Dave Letterman] As in ax me a question. Makes me want to use an ax on them. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/60 "2002-07-30T12:15:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Lodrain said: > “I don’t never see nobody here no more!” > > The amazing, vanishingly rare quadruple negative! Only seen in the wilds of Georgia and a few preserves in surrounding states! Luckily, I trapped it. \*\*Sorry, but it escaped, made its way to Baltimore and spawned. I hear the quadruple negative all the time, along with the ever-popular, “I seen that!” and “I don’t got none.” Yes, Baltimore, that bastion of horrendous grammar. > [@](#): > > \*\*porcupine said: > I think this is an Iowa-ism that has spread throughout the country. I never heard it before 3 years ago, but two close friends in their later 30s/early 40s who are both from Iowa grew up saying “Cool Beans.” \*\* It may be an Iowa-ism, but I’ve been hearing it here in the Mid-Atlantic for at least 15 years. I used it myself, but only with my kids when they little. “Mommy, I peed in the potty by myself!” “Hey, cool beans!” Just a silly response that they liked. I would never use it in grown-up conversation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337.md?page=4)