Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!hogpd!keduh From: keduh@hogpd.UUCP (D.HUDEK) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re : TBAEOTW Message-ID: <355@hogpd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 10:34:37 EDT Article-I.D.: hogpd.355 Posted: Fri Jul 6 10:34:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jul-84 01:45:26 EDT Lines: 29 <<||>> All right !! Yea Team !! etc. etc. That has been driving me crazy for years [ ok, ok, so maybe I've BEEN crazy for years already, but it made it worse :-) ] What I want to know is, how did it ever get started in the first place ?? Was the phrase first used correctly [ i.e., "I couldn't care less"] and then misunderstood by someone with a lot of empathy but too much ear wax ?? :-) :-) But then how did it get passed on ?? Maybe this person with the stuffed-up ears was famous and used the phrase a lot..... the media covered it..... it became a fad..... ?? :-) The first time I heard someone use that phrase I took it at face value and thought they were just indicating a degree of interest in a rather convoluted manner. It soon became apparent that that was not the intent.... Hey, wait a minute.... I forgot this is net.flame.... DEATH TO ALL WHO MISUSE THE PHRASE !!! ANYONE CAUGHT SAYING THAT THEY "COULD CARE LESS" WILL BE FORCED TO LIVE IN NEW JERSEY !!!! I MEAN... FORCED TO LIVE IN NORTH DAKOTA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)