You smell
You smell
Brian07663NJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#1You smell
Posted: 9/12/14 at 12:33pm
Hilarious...I am ALL for this!
I don't care WHO you are...if you smell I don't want to get in your cab!
Everyone knows - you don't usually smell yourself!
San Diego cabbies cry foul over body odor test
#2You smell
Posted: 9/14/14 at 9:15pm
This calls to mind the famous apocryphal story usually told of Dr. Johnson. When accosted by someone forced to sit next to him with the comment "Sir, you smell!" Johnson, ever the precise lexicographer, replied "No, madame. You smell. I stink."
smell: to sense with the olfactory system
stink: to give off an odor
Alas, use of language has become so lax that the distinction between the words is observed even less now than it was in Johnson's day and many dictionaries accept "to smell" as "to stink."
Updated On: 9/14/14 at 09:15 PM
#3You smell
Posted: 9/15/14 at 8:19am
[NAME / AGE removed] thinks cabbies are getting picked on. "If you're going to say cab drivers, shouldn't you also say waitresses and anyone else who deals with the public?" she said after returning from San Antonio.
Well... yes.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Brian07663NJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#4You smell
Posted: 9/15/14 at 8:41am
NoName... correct so have you written to the author of this article? I found at least one example that fails your accurate English policing:
"Anyone who flunks the smell test is told to change before picking up another customer."
Should it not be corrected to:
Anyone who flunks the STINK test is told to change before picking up another customer.
#5You smell
Posted: 9/15/14 at 9:53amNah, my post was just tongue-in-cheek. The Johnson anecdote is a very famous, and to me very clever, story that immediately popped to mind when I read about the cabbie incident. As I said, smell for stink has been common usage for so very long that almost all dictionaries accept it (although Johnson doesn't in his dictionary, which for well over 150 years, until the completion of the OED, was considered the definitive English dictionary). And the Johnson story, though well-known, has never been verified. It doesn't appear in any primary source material we have about Johnson, including Boswell's biography.
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