A working progress...

Please bare with me...um...should I get naked here or over there? There are times that I read phrases, not on twitter or text message where you are restricted to a certain number of characters, and I am just left wondering what the writer was really trying to say. It happens quite frequently these days, I am sorry to say.

These are some of my favourites...

New & Improved!! Well, is it new or is it improved? If it's improved, it's not new.

Towing the line. Really? Where are we towing it to? Did it park on the wrong side of the street again? Damn those alternate side parking rules, they get the best of us! It's Toeing the line folks, as in, you are conforming to the norm.

Taken out of contacts. Really? I'm glad that you've taken out your contacts, but perhaps you should put them back in and look at what you've just said - it's taken out of context, as in the quote attributed to you was only part of a sentence or speech and used in a way it was not originally intended to be used. Put your contacts back in and read that again if you think I've taken it out of contacts...

Lindsay Lohan is not going to pleat guilty folks, she is more than likely going to plead not guilty...and I doubt she'll be wearing pleats while she does it, they tend to make people appear larger than they are.

For all intensive purposes...really? Are we sending the purposes to the ER? Are they having heart issues and need to be in intensive care? Most of us say for all intents and purposes...but maybe this is an emergency and does require some intensive action, I just don't know - maybe I've taken it out of contacts?

Okay...those are some of a few that really annoy me when I see or hear them...have I missed some?

And by the way, you live a sorted life (mostly in the UK) if you are thought of as put together and on top of things, organized, and know where you're going and how to get there. You live a sordid life if you are less than perfect and might have done some XXX rated things in your past that you might not want people to find out about. The Monica Lewinsky scandal could be described as a sordid affair not a sorted one. It's cole slaw, not cold slaw, although, it should be cold to keep it from spoiling and it's Prima Donna, as in a difficult person to work with, not PRE-Madonna, and now I feel old as I was definitely born PRE-Madonna, but then again, I can be a Prima Donna too, just ask my friends or my boss...

Okay, rant accomplished and I feel better having said all of this and gotten it off my chest and notice I didn't use the phrase gotten off on my chest because that has a whole other meaning and it belongs in the sordid category boys and girls. And on that note, the phrase is bear with me, asking for patience for the situation, not bare with me as in asking someone to get naked...again, if that's what you want to ask, just realize you are sordid, not sorted...but since you're getting bare, you could do laundry and remember to sort the colours!