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Had a little experience with a local Nissan dealership...went through some" rig or more row"
(Note: I first posted this gem in the, "I can't take it anymore", thread, but I think that this thread is more appropriate, hence the double posting.)
I saw that and couldn't figure out what it meant. I looked and looked and thought and thought. Good thing you repeated it because now I know what they're trying to say.
Great example of not being able to communicate. I'm the type of person who takes things literally so if I see "rig or more row" I see a rig (like a truck?) "or" "more" "row" like a row of radishes in the garden or a motion made with oars or a fight between people. It doesn't add up to anything meaningful to me. I'm absolutely thrilled to be able to finally understand what they were saying.
I saw that and couldn't figure out what it meant. I looked and looked and thought and thought. Good thing you repeated it because now I know what they're trying to say.
Great example of not being able to communicate. I'm the type of person who takes things literally so if I see "rig or more row" I see a rig (like a truck?) "or" "more" "row" like a row of radishes in the garden or a motion made with oars or a fight between people. It doesn't add up to anything meaningful to me. I'm absolutely thrilled to be able to finally understand what they were saying.
--Diane returns and is telling a story about swimming in the ocean.
Diane: I suddenly discovered myself entangled in an enormous bed of…of, um…
Niles: Sea kelp?
Diane: Exactly right, sea kelp!
Martin: Oh, that's funny; I thought he said “seek help”
rigamarole or rigmarole
1. any long complicated procedure 2. a set of incoherent or pointless statements; garbled nonsense.
From earlier ragman role, a list, probably a roll used in a medieval game, wherin a list of various characters were described in verse, beginning with Ragemon le bon, Ragman the good.
(from dictionaryreference.com)
Where that poster got "rig or more row" is hard to understand.
Where that poster got "rig or more row" is hard to understand.
After some good-natured back & forth bantering, the guy who posted that gem actually thanked me for informing him that it was a word, rather than, "a phrase".
I was tempted to ask him what he thought the supposed phrase meant, but I decided to cut my losses at that point and not continue the cyber conversation.
As usual, it appears to be one more indication of...someone who doesn't read...and/or someone who says/writes things without having any concept of what his words might actually mean.
One of my sisters made it well into adulthood believing the phrase "might as well", was "minus well". She would even write it that way.
Neither of us can explain how that happened.
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and thought and thought. 
Good thing you repeated it because now I know what they're trying to say. 
