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You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 11:56:59 AM   
NihilusZero


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Actually...yes. Yes, you can. We all can.

I can have a cake in front of me. I've got it. I can, now, also eat it (since I've got it).

The figure of speech, properly written, is supposed to be:

You can't eat your cake and have it too.

Because, obviously, once I've already eaten it...I no longer have it.

This has been a service message from your local Nitpickers Society.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

[/pedantic rant]

< Message edited by NihilusZero -- 5/30/2009 11:58:21 AM >

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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 11:58:42 AM   
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 11:59:03 AM   
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Or a pedant forum.  Whaddaya think?
 
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 12:07:20 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: breatheasone

Well alrighty then.....



quote:

ORIGINAL: Darcyandthedark

I want a smilie that holds the sign 'pedantsunited'.
Or a pedant forum.  Whaddaya think?

yours pedantically
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 12:08:38 PM   
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 12:09:19 PM   
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

      I could care less 

75 points!!


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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 12:11:29 PM   
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       I could care less 

I couldn't

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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 12:13:24 PM   
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 12:16:51 PM   
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 1:21:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: colouredin

I know, and to be honest every time i say to someone lier lier pants on fire why in the hell do they never turn around to check?


And as far as that goes, I have NEVER seen someone with their nose caught in a telephone wire, so WTF???? 

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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 5:13:41 PM   
Fitznicely


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Status: offline 		OK, to out-pedant the pedant...I can't have my cake and eat it too. I'm diabetic.

I can have it, but can't eat it. QED, the original is correct.

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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 5:35:29 PM   
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but isn't that a mute point?........ Man i crack myself up LMAO

oh I HATE that one
its moot ...moot moot...argghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 5:36:30 PM   
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 5:41:49 PM   
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 5:46:32 PM   
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 5:57:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		LOL, good point.  Just try and hand me some cake and tell me I can't eat it.  It'll be gone before you can finish your sentence. 

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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 9:10:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: NihilusZero

[pedantic rant]

You can't eat your cake and have it too.

[/pedantic rant]


Bake two cakes. 

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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 9:14:37 PM   
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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 9:20:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think the origin of the statement comes from people wanting everything with out being reasonable in their wants/needs. Its reasonable to want cake. However its unreasonable to believe once you have said cake that you also want cookies. Ie you cant have your cake and eat it too because if you eat it you will learn the cake did not satisfy you and you now need something else.


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RE: You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 5/30/2009 9:31:10 PM   
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ORIGINAL: hopelessfool
I think the origin of the statement comes from people wanting everything with out being reasonable in their wants/needs. Its reasonable to want cake. However its unreasonable to believe once you have said cake that you also want cookies. Ie you cant have your cake and eat it too because if you eat it you will learn the cake did not satisfy you and you now need something else.


While that probably is a very good guess ... the phrase might have also have been a derivative of the line: "Let them eat cake!" which I believe was demonstrated quite clearly to have come out of the French Revolution.

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