# Words that cannot be used together in a sentence
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 8, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495 "2006-11-08T00:53:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/1 "2006-11-08T00:53:56Z")
That’s just your intestines, don’t worry about it! :eek:
I’m sorry, you simply can’t say those together. Yes, it is grammatically correct. None-the-less, it should never be said.
Last year I had major stomach surgery. For medical reasons the doctor did not close the wound, but let it heal by secondary intention. He did not join the muscles either, so I have a HUGE hernia. I have a bulge the size of a cantelope on my belly.
So, when my new GP saw it and freaked out, he made me call the surgeon. I got his nurse. I explained about the bulge. I said I thought it was probably my stomach.
She said: On no, that’s just your intestines. Don’t worry about it.
What words have you heard recently that don’t belong together in a sentence?
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/2 "2006-11-08T01:07:06Z")
“Compassionate conservative”? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/3 "2006-11-08T01:09:06Z")
“Greater Rochester”
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### Author:  [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/4 "2006-11-08T01:20:13Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji]
So, when my new GP saw it and freaked out, he made me call the surgeon. I got his nurse. I explained about the bulge. I said I thought it was probably my stomach.
She said: On no, that’s just your intestines. Don’t worry about it.
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So, did you worry about it?
For cryin’ out loud, don’t leave it there…what happened? Did it get fixed or are you going to show off the bulge forever?
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/5 "2006-11-08T01:24:57Z")
“Hand me that piano.” -George Carlin
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/6 "2006-11-08T01:25:11Z")
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff]
So, did you worry about it?
For cryin’ out loud, don’t leave it there…what happened? Did it get fixed or are you going to show off the bulge forever?
[/QUOTE]
I will have some major surgery early next year which should fix it. It will also reduce the biggest scar I’ve ever seen not on a burn victim to about normal thin scar.
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/7 "2006-11-08T01:35:37Z")
“penis” and “superglue” are probably best not used in a sentence together.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/8 "2006-11-08T01:48:44Z")
I’m going to go with anything with connotations of being sharp or heavy and genitalia.
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### Author:  [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/9 "2006-11-08T03:07:11Z")
“Just a little” and “herpes”
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### Author:  [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/10 "2006-11-08T04:45:59Z")
I played this game with some of my buddies a while back. I’ll steal my friend Kez’s entry, which we declared the winner:
“Shotgun sodomy”.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/11 "2006-11-08T16:59:51Z")
“cheese grater” and “eyeball”
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### Author:  [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/12 "2006-11-08T17:25:59Z")
“razor dildo” is the current winner in my ongoing contest of the same nature.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/13 "2006-11-08T17:36:06Z")
“Republican leadership”
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-cannot-be-used-together-in-a-sentence/379495/14 "2006-11-09T03:53:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> You can never get enough good cat poo.
Said in an email exchange discussing what “treats” we would bring to a Boy Scout meeting a week or so back. The person quoted was planning on bringing a kitty litter cake, while we were planning on bringing cat poop cookies.