What Phrases or Words Irritate You?

Sure...but our "Free Bird" is a Bop tune about Charlie Parker

 

Why?.....I don't recall you ever saying " I hate Jazz"....lol.....Did I miss that one?

 

I know.... I teed that one up for you.

 

I used to work with a fantastic drummer, who used to translate like that, with excellent English or Latin for the other musicians who were using a little too much of the "Vernacular of the Street" shall we say....This cat was a riot, and always cracked everybody up.....I also heard, sometimes when some Jazz Guy would let fly with a tirade of profanity that Charlie Parker, in a very polite and academic manner would translate said tirade with the Queen's English....and it never failed the kill everybody...

You know Jazz Players from the '40's were famous for some of this profane street talk, but they say when Charlie Parker spoke, there was a noticable lack of slang, and he always spoke very eloquently...except when he might use the Street Vernacular too make a perticular point...Example, discribing when he met Dizzy Gillespie he said, " And aside from being a gentleman possessing an articulate wit, this young man also played what one might discribe in the vernacular of the street as,"beaucoup trumpet"...." Lol, thats how the greatest Jazz player of all spoke!

 

I always appreciate a friendly serve...

 

Mixed metaphors really irritate me . . .

 

I have a friend who ends most sentences in "You know what I mean?" I want to say, "Yeah! I know what you mean."

 

We're at page 29, thus I hope someone included "is...is..."(The reason for the delay is is that..)...I guess the speaker wants to be sure his/her "is" came out so he/she had to double check.

 

Every time I hear that, I reply "I do." it gets absurd, some people get the hint though.

Know what I mean?

 

That's a lot of knowledge about a tropical fruit for an Antarctic species.

 

Was his name Ernest??
You know what I mean, Vern?

 

Well, two swallows could have grasped the pineapple by the fronds, and carried it to the Antarctic!!!!

 

African or European?

 

No, his name was Don. You know what I mean? Whatever!

 

Or, "No, can you please clarify?"

 

Now that I speak good English it gets me so annoyed when somebody ends a sentence with "you know what I mean?" over and over again!

 

I know what you mean.

 

Ding Ding Ding, give the man a prize. I wasn't sure anyone would get that. From one of my "Favorite, All Time Stupid Movies".