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Started by Asmodean, January 05, 2017, 03:00:35 PM

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I always thought instead of saying "A for effort" it should go "A for Assed." :notsure:
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Dave

Quote from: Asmodean on January 09, 2017, 09:26:02 PM
Means without much effort. If it relates to "can't be arsed," then I suppose it's worse than fully-assed. If not, I'm not sure.

Interesting, here "half-arsed" usually means "did not try very hard" or "could have done better", as in "a half-arsed effort".

Quotehalf-arsed
adjectiveinformal
done with little effort or care; incompetent or inadequate.
"a half-arsed attempt to rectify the problem"

HANG ON, RETHINK TIME,

I may have read your words as meaning "easily done", O Asmo.
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Arturo

Maybe it references a time when a plumber would come to your apartment and do low quality work while showing half his ass. So then the two were forever associated with each other.
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Asmodean

Quote from: Gloucester on January 09, 2017, 09:35:36 PM
I may have read your words as meaning "easily done", O Asmo.
A typical case of misunderstanding due to ambiguity.  ;)
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Dave

Quote from: Apathy on January 10, 2017, 12:06:06 AM
Maybe it references a time when a plumber would come to your apartment and do low quality work while showing half his ass. So then the two were forever associated with each other.

I like that!

:thumbsup:
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Arturo

Quote from: Gloucester on January 10, 2017, 10:15:29 AM
Quote from: Apathy on January 10, 2017, 12:06:06 AM
Maybe it references a time when a plumber would come to your apartment and do low quality work while showing half his ass. So then the two were forever associated with each other.

I like that!

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup: I'm pretty good at origin stories for words, even if they aren't correct.
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