David, we have an alternate Word of the Week category called Figuratively Speaking which I tell Tony could be a Substack of its own for expressions like that. It's good these days to "be from Missouri!.
How about "show and tell." I wonder if kids do that in school anymore. Who needs a real Thing to show, when you've got 345 images of it on your you-know-what. Of course a Thing is hardly real unless you can actually touch it, feel it. So did "showing" somehow imply "touching?"
I'm going to be talking about that today for the Hymn of the Week: showing involves CAUSING TO SEE. It opens the eyes ... But I agree with you. I should have brought the fossils I collected (I had 153 of them, keeping my favorites and leaving the others on the enormous coal-hill where I found them) to school. You can't really tell what they're like unless you feel them and handle them. I can show people what kinds of coal you're likely to find them in, and how to locate them inside a rock, usually along a lateral seam...
Fooling around with a clever retort, I came up with, “it just goes to show, you should never buy anything sight unseen.” Then I realized that’s exactly what we do when we buy a ticket to a show, hoping we didn’t waste our money !… and “fooling around,” is a sort of show, eh? Especially when you share it in the comments, ha! George Carlin titled one of his live performances: Occupation: Foole, the subject of one of his riffs. The ‘e’ on the end was, of course, part of the show!
One of my favorite uses of "show" is to express disbelief. I'll say "I'm from Missouri on this one".
David, we have an alternate Word of the Week category called Figuratively Speaking which I tell Tony could be a Substack of its own for expressions like that. It's good these days to "be from Missouri!.
How about "show and tell." I wonder if kids do that in school anymore. Who needs a real Thing to show, when you've got 345 images of it on your you-know-what. Of course a Thing is hardly real unless you can actually touch it, feel it. So did "showing" somehow imply "touching?"
I'm going to be talking about that today for the Hymn of the Week: showing involves CAUSING TO SEE. It opens the eyes ... But I agree with you. I should have brought the fossils I collected (I had 153 of them, keeping my favorites and leaving the others on the enormous coal-hill where I found them) to school. You can't really tell what they're like unless you feel them and handle them. I can show people what kinds of coal you're likely to find them in, and how to locate them inside a rock, usually along a lateral seam...
Fooling around with a clever retort, I came up with, “it just goes to show, you should never buy anything sight unseen.” Then I realized that’s exactly what we do when we buy a ticket to a show, hoping we didn’t waste our money !… and “fooling around,” is a sort of show, eh? Especially when you share it in the comments, ha! George Carlin titled one of his live performances: Occupation: Foole, the subject of one of his riffs. The ‘e’ on the end was, of course, part of the show!
George Carlin was a great showman, one of my favorite of the last round of realbcomics.