Unutterably Silly Over-"heard" online

[llreader]

Just read this on Ars Technica:

Critical thinking is about the ability to determine whether a statement holds water on it's own two feet.

The funniest part is that he went on to make a serious point about science.

Post the random bits of language that made you smile today!

[Javed]

"If your feet smell and your nose runs, you're upside down."

[happy_terd]

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."
Casey Stengel

[frabjous]

"Well, of course I would never use a preposition to end a sentence up with, because it might be difficult to make sense out of, and, after all, what would I want to use a preposition to finish a sentence that you cannot make any sense out of up with for?"
(from a winner of the Bulwer-Lytton competition.)

[llreader]

This is nonsense, up with which we will not put!!

Originally Posted by frabjous

"Well, of course I would never use a preposition to end a sentence up with, because it might be difficult to make sense out of, and, after all, what would I want to use a preposition to finish a sentence that you cannot make any sense out of up with for?"
(from a winner of the Bulwer-Lytton competition.)

[llreader]

From the New York Times editorial page today:

The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive, but none in which a double positive makes a negative — to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah, yeah.”

There is a whole page of Morgenbesser witticisms.