April 2010
262 posts
March 2010
357 posts
Ten minutes into one of the most boring stories I have ever heard he says,
“To make a long Story Short”.
Thank God, I think to myself.
Then he talks for another 20 minutes about the same thing.
I am still waiting for someone to jump out and say “Congratulations, You’re on
Boiling Point”!
"I mean.."
Why do people say “I mean” before they have even said anything?
Why clarify a statement that you haven’t even made yet?
I hear this everyday now. Do people just assume that their statements
will be misunderstood and need to elaborate a head of time?
Or “What I’m saying is…”
Are these just the new versions of “Umm”?
In New York, Breaking a Law on Roommates →
nytimes.com
And in New York, home to some of the nation’s highest rents and more than eight million people, many of them single, it is illegal for more than three unrelated people to live in an apartment or a house.
