You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat it Too – WTFugh?

[M.D. Holloway]

“Well, you can’t have your cake and eat it too”

“Why not? What the hell is the sense of having cake and not being able to eat it?”

“I don’t know you just can’t!”

“Well that’s just plain ridiculous! Who the hell makes this shyt up anyway!”

“OK FINE! Have your cake and eat it, see if I care! While you’re at it you can paste it right to your ass cuz that’s where it will end up anyway!”

“So now you’re saying I’m fat! First you deny me the pleasure of eating my cake even though you admit it is mine and now you have to rub it into my face the fact that I have put on a few extra pounds!
Well fine. I’m just gonna sit here and look at this cake and not eat it and to make matters worse, I’m not gonna let you have any either so how do you feel about that!”

“I don’t like cake; I’m more of a pie person.”

[onewhippedpuppy]

uuuum, pie.

[cashflyer]

Sounds like conversations with my wife.

[pwd72s]

Ohhhh...this is one of those "does my butt look to big?" things...that's when it's time to fight the little woman with your hat...grab it and run!

[M.D. Holloway]

"Honey, do these jeans make my butt look fat?"

"No, your fat makes your butt look fat!"

[onewhippedpuppy]

Does this mean Hugh is planning taking my cake from me after I purchase it, but before I eat it?

[Tyson Schmidt]

The problem is, people don't understand what this saying means.

What it should say is:

You can't eat your cake, and then still have it.

[RPKESQ]

Originally Posted by Tyson Schmidt

The problem is, people don't understand what this saying means.

What it should say is:

You can't eat your cake, and then still have it.

That's right. The original phrase was reverse of what people say now. And that's why it make no sense.

One of my favorites is "lock and load". The original command was "load and lock" (which makes logical sense, you load the weapon and lock the action), but in "The Sands of Iwo Jima" John Wayne says it in reverse and the rest is history.

[M.D. Holloway]

I always thought that 'lock and load' refered to locking the safety then loaing the round.

[p911dad]

Thanks to Tyson and Rpkesq two minor mysteries have been cleared up. Who says I am not spending my evenings productively? Case closed.

[dd74]

Case closed.

Legal case? Suitcase?

Anyone know what a grip is in "Get a grip"?

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by dd74

Anyone know what a grip is in "Get a grip"?

I used to have one. Not sure where it is now. I'll try to post a picture.

[M.D. Holloway]

Get a grip refers to holding tight - like get a grip on reality and don't wonder off into some fantasy world.

[sammyg2]

I like finding out where some of our common sayings come from.
Example: "cold enough to freeeze the balls off a brass monkey" may not mean what most would think.
Some folks say that A brass monkey was a metal stand that held cannon balls on sailing ships back in the days of the tall sailing ships. They would stack the cannon balls next to the cannons in a brass monkey.
When it got really cold, the water that had accumulated in the "brass monkey" would freeze and expand, knocking the top layer of cannon balls loose. This is a topic of debate but there is some evidence to support it.

Another is "go the whole nine yards".
In the battle of britain in WWII, the british fighters had ammo belts that were nine yards long. the instructions give to the pilot was go the whole nine yards, in other words don't come back unless you are out of ammo.

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

Do they have reserved parking for non-handicapped people at the
Special Olympics?

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people
appear bright until you hear them speak?

[sammyg2]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[M.D. Holloway]

And I always though that 'the whole nine yards' refered to the length of material it took to make a nice mens suit.

[DanielDudley]

My ex wanted to have her cake, and also screw around.

No cake for her.

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Does this mean Hugh is planning taking my cake from me after I purchase it, but before I eat it?

Exactly, you don't even get a crumb.

[Jim Richards]

So...what kind of icing are we talking about?