Meteoric Rise

[TheCalvinator24]

Okay, now can anyone explain to me why I have always thought that BTTF was set in Ohio?

Especially since Part 3 very clearly isn't.

[Beast the Slacker]

Okay, now can anyone explain to me why I have always thought that BTTF was set in Ohio?

Especially since Part 3 very clearly isn't.

Are there more slackers in Ohio than California?

[Thousandaire]

In Soviet Union, meteor raises YOU.

[ghostjmf]

mntetn ksays:

and should we even get started about whether one "could" or "couldn't" care less?

"As if I could hardly care less" becomes "I could care less", both said with much animosity & a shoulder hunch/shrug to boot. Simple. Everybody I knew as a child who said this was a native speaker of Yiddish. Perhaps its a grammatically legal form in Yiddish. Nowadays its seems to have entered general parlance.

[tlynn78]

"As if I could hardly care less" becomes "I could care less", both said with much animosity & a shoulder hunch/shrug to boot. Simple. Everybody I knew as a child who said this was a native speaker of Yiddish. Perhaps its a grammatically legal form in Yiddish. Nowadays its seems to have entered general parlance.

No, no, no, no. no. "I could care less" indicates a level of caring above the level of not caring at all. If one could care less, then one does care, at least to some degree. Thus, if you don't care, "I couldn't care less" is the correct statement. Make it so.


t.

[VAdame]

mntetn ksays:

and should we even get started about whether one "could" or "couldn't" care less?

"As if I could hardly care less" becomes "I could care less", both said with much animosity & a shoulder hunch/shrug to boot. Simple. Everybody I knew as a child who said this was a native speaker of Yiddish. Perhaps its a grammatically legal form in Yiddish. Nowadays its seems to have entered general parlance.

I was about to post the same; you beat me to it! It's a Yiddishism. Say it with a sarcastic rising intonation to go with the shoulder hunch/shrug: "I could care less?"

The other half of it is, "As if.....!"

[tlynn78]

Say it with a sarcastic rising intonation to go with the shoulder hunch/shrug: "I could care less?"

Ah, now I see. And can somewhat agree with you and Ghost. However, it's vastly misused and one of my pet peeves....

t.

[etaoin22]

Okay, now can anyone explain to me why I have always thought that BTTF was set in Ohio?

Especially since Part 3 very clearly isn't.

And with the aid of Google I thought you were referring to the onset of the Savings and Loan crisis in Ohio.....

[etaoin22]

mntetn ksays:

and should we even get started about whether one "could" or "couldn't" care less?

"As if I could hardly care less" becomes "I could care less", both said with much animosity & a shoulder hunch/shrug to boot. Simple. Everybody I knew as a child who said this was a native speaker of Yiddish. Perhaps its a grammatically legal form in Yiddish. Nowadays its seems to have entered general parlance.

I was about to post the same; you beat me to it! It's a Yiddishism. Say it with a sarcastic rising intonation to go with the shoulder hunch/shrug: "I could care less?"

The other half of it is, "As if.....!"

THis is GREAT. This allows both constructions to be valid expressions of the idea, if "I could care less" has an IMPLIED "as if" at the start. NB in Français, implied words are often present in phrases which otherwise would not makes sense in agreement of gender: in Montreal, "Le Reine Elizabeth" is the hotel, which could otherwise be written "L'hotel La Reine Elizabeth", and "La Saint-Jean" is "La fête de Saint-Jean".

[MarleysGh0st]

In China, meteors go up.

Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull in China?

If you drill through the earth and come out in China, you'll be upside down, right?

So, while we're in a thread about sayings that don't quite make sense, let's tackle this old saw about digging a hole to China. I'm not sure where exactly you live, but why don't you draw a line from there, through the center of the earth, to the opposite side. Use a globe, if you like, or just do the calculations from your latitude and longitude.

Spoiler

I'll bet you end up in the Indian Ocean.

[Jeemie]

Reading this thread has cost me five minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

[Snaxx]

Okay, now can anyone explain to me why I have always thought that BTTF was set in Ohio?

Especially since Part 3 very clearly isn't.

Family Ties with Michael J. Fox was at about the same time and that was set in Ohio.

[Snaxx]

When I was in a ROF seat at Play-It, one third-tier question was "which of the following is an example of an oxymoron"? With the correct choice (say it was B) being "Meteoric Rise." I got it wrong, and remember while the contestant was using a lifeline quietly telling the person next to me that it could not be B because an oxymoron is like a contradiction. I must have been thinking that meteors do rise.

[earendel]

Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull in China?

If you drill through the earth and come out in China, you'll be upside down, right?

So, while we're in a thread about sayings that don't quite make sense, let's tackle this old saw about digging a hole to China. I'm not sure where exactly you live, but why don't you draw a line from there, through the center of the earth, to the opposite side. Use a globe, if you like, or just do the calculations from your latitude and longitude.

Spoiler

I'll bet you end up in the Indian Ocean.

I learned this little tidbit back in the 60s. Isaac Asimov, in one of his books of collected essays, wrote about the fact that the US "maps" almost completely over the Indian Ocean, so no matter where you dig, you'd end up there, not China. As I recall the point he was making had to do with the distribution of land masses but I can't remember any more details.

[Jeemie]

Are there more slackers in Ohio than California?

Well...Joe the Plumber is from Ohio...

[peacock2121]

Reading this thread has cost me five minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

No matter what you did with those 5 minutes, you were never going to get them back.

[Jeemie]

Reading this thread has cost me five minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

No matter what you did with those 5 minutes, you were never going to get them back.

I figured that someone would stick with the spirit of this thread and critique my post in just that manner.