I said what?!
March 26th, 2007 by Marc
Yesterday in my sermon, I said “half-asked” twice.
I got home to have the two adults tell me I said “half-assed”! Oy! I didn’t even know that term existed! They swore that “half-asked” wasn’t a term.
Thank God for Google. Evidently my term is a term but a softening of half-assed. Who’d have thunk it?
At the Eggcorn Forum it says:
A half-assed effort is one that is unplanned, incompetent, or ambivalently undertaken. ‘Half-asked’ nicely expresses the similar idea of partial or indifferent motivation.
What is half-assed any way? One cheek?
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March 26th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
dude…half-asked is what people say who overheard someone else saying it and misunderstood. it doesn’t exist.
March 26th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
C’mon! It’s gotta exist!
(Although I feel like my pocket protector is showing!)
March 26th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Dude, you SOOOO said “half-ass.” It knocked me off my seat when I heard it.
March 26th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
I only heard it once.
Jan
March 27th, 2007 at 8:09 am
next week try and fit in “bass ackward”
March 27th, 2007 at 10:04 am
never heard of half-asked. that’s weird.
and half-assed is funny.
i don’t think it’s just one cheek though - i think a half-ass is what someone sees when ones pants won’t stay up where they belong.
and you might say “gee - mr. saggypants did a half-assed job of getting dressed this morning.”
HA!
March 27th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
http://rich.gouette.com/
March 28th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Lisa: so half-assed is like “half-mast”?
Rich: What a stinkin’ riot! You certainly didn’t do a half-assed job on that audio engineering!
Who knew I could speak Arabic backward?
Luke: I’ve heard that some were more amazed that I said “sex” just before the alleged “half-assed”!
Come to VCW. You never know WHAT will be said!