Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for November 22, 2013

Sorry, Milo, but the tired aphorism is correct nonetheless. If you have eaten your cake, you no longer “have” it.Binkley, butt out! I’m the grammar cop on this beat!

It’ll all come out in the end.

Is that supposed to be his Will Rogers hat?

“Kit and caboodle”! Sheesh …

It doesn’t make sense to people because nobody says it right. It’s “you can’t eat your cake and have it too”, meaning you can’t have it both ways.

This phrase is a perfect example of why you shouldn’t mindlessly repeat everything you hear without stopping to think what it means.

Penguins have lips?

My house mate is one of those who tend to just toss words out there, with no thought to their order. He thinks that as long as he uses the right words, never mind there order, they mean exactly what is in his head. He also mixes metaphors, and consistently uses wrong words. Carafate (a drug) for carafe, for example. This is the same person I recently mentioned says “rurned” for ruined.

And he’s got a good paying job as a critical care nurse in the local hospital. Go figure.

And the great rhetoric, worthy of Mrs. Malaprop herself, the mixed metaphor of: “ain’t no skin off my stiff upper lip”. 8^)

Whur haz da caboodles gone?

Cakes are usually quite big. Unless it’s a cupcake, but then you would say cupcake. I usually eat only one piece depending on the cake, that is at most 1/6th of the whole cake. So I do usually eat my cake and have my cake… at least five times per cake.

Hey, a rolling stone is worth two in the bush.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him run up the hill to fetch a pail.

I think ‘the whole kit and caboose’ should become a standard phrase.

You can pick your friends.

And you can pick your nose.

But you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

Works both ways. And although it has a little different meaning, your way sounds better. Maybe I should have said “…proper order.”