Support NeoGAF

[Sevenfold]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ0l_vPyUmg

Also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnXKVY-_i2c

 

[Diancecht]

lol what kind of a question is that? We all know ghosts are dirty fucking things. How could THEY possibly be clear?

 

[Red Liquorice]

I could care less.

 

[bobnowhere]

Never heard of "The Ghost is clear." Hollywood has taught me messages from ghosts are usually ambiguous and cryptic.

 

[TAJ]

It's a moo point.

It's much more common for people to fuck that up by saying 'mute' instead of 'moot'.

 

[NekoFever]

We should give people free reign to mess up as many idioms as they like.

 

[Nimajneb]

While we're at it :

It's "toe the line"

not

"tow the line"

Mind blown. I can't believe I've never see this phrase in writing before. At least "tow the line" makes sense, unlike this ghost nonsense.

 

[uncelestial]

Is it e=mc squared or is it funkadoo diddle blarbin harge?

 

[Syder]

How does this have 4 pages?

 

[Rogan]

It's the coast. Ghosts are always clear, so you don't need to point it out.

lmao hahaha

 

[ClivePwned]

thanks for the laugh OP. Not laughing at you but with you

Spoiler

at you.

 

[ExInferus]

Coasts don't exist

 

[Polk]

Which makes me ask, when did this sort of smuggling start? Smuggling is originally a way to get goods past authorities so they don't need to pay import tax. When was the first usage of import tax? Did the ancient Romans or Chinese tax imports? Or was it done later? Smuggling is also a way to get supplies and weapons through to insurgents as well but that would be a rarer use.

Romans had customs taxes (portoria).

 

[JoeNut]

Are you from this planet? how could you get this wrong?

 

[soqquatto]

bare with me
waiting with baited breath
with all intensive purposes
low and behold
nip it in the butt
taken for granite
sneak peak
extract revenge
shoe-in
slight of hand
it's a mute point
case and point
wreck havoc

and of course

I could care less

 

[paperboywriter]

Thanks for the laugh OP

 

[Spikematic]

There is no way you were serious about this. No way...

 

[deo]

Unless you're a Ghostbuster, it's the former

I ain't afraid of no coast!

 

[paperboywriter]

I ain't afraid of no coast!

Beat me by a second

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Coastbusters: a show about a bunch of marks hanging out at beaches.

 

[the malus]

But who the hell is Dustin Echoes?!!

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

Why don't people stop to think for just a second? That solves most questions right there. Every time I hear a phrase or see a word I don't know, I look it up. Why the hell would it be "up and Adam"? Think about it and it makes zero sense. Why not look it up and within seconds you'll have found the answer and you're a smarter person for it. It really baffles me how people could even think the things they do sometimes. I know the thread is most likely made for fun, but the stupidity of people on even the simplest of things really bothers me.

Don't cut off your nose despite your face.

 

[-x.Red.x-]

I thought this was one of those Mandela threads. I was about to truly believe...

 

[Raiden]

OP's roast is here.

 

[Wolfgunblood Garopa]

Like stands through the shower masts, those are the ways of our chives

 

[evilromero]

We're hiding in a dumpster waiting for the cops to leave when you look into my eyes and say, "the ghost is clear."

 

[Unit 33]

I couldn't care less

NOT
'I could care less'

Doesnt make sense, come fight me.

 

[Hazmat]

It's about bagels with specters. "The ghost has schmear."

 

[slider]

Fuck me, that's a phrase that needs to exist. The Ghost Is Clear.

Add it to "then who was phone" which, whilst massively overplayed, still gets a chuckle from me.

 

[Keym]

Are you fishing for a tag OP

 

[Monochromaticx]

OP's ghost is here.

fixed

 

[shawnbuddy]

Yay, Spoonerisms (okay Mondegreens) thread.

Reminds me of a poster on another forum who insisted on using terms like "nowandays" over and over in his forum "threats."

 

[Any Questions]

We're hiding in a dumpster waiting for the cops to leave when you look into my eyes and say, "the ghost is clear."

ROFL

 

[Giga Man]

I heard the phrase first from Scooby-Doo and thought it was "ghost" for the longest time.

 

[Machine]

In the words of Elton John: "Hold me closer Tony Danza"

 

[Paquete_PT]

There are threads, and then there are threads like this

It's obviously "The toast is fear"!

(Also: www.google.pt may help in the future)

 

[TheOohChild]

Maybe op is a scientologist and we're all just being assholes.

 

[DustyVonEric]

Do we know yet what kind of shady activity OP was even part of to be saying "The coast is clear"?

You don't just say the coast is clear, unless you're up to no good.

 

[Graphics Horse]

These threads really get my ghost

 

[Pyramid head]

Coasts don't exist

They do, and they're definitely transclearant. I can see straight though them when I summon them using my Luigi Board.

 

[Keym]

Hey guys have I been saying "you don't stand a coast of a chance" wrong all this time?

 

[OmegaTreeFish]

So much missinformation in here.

It's "the ghost is clear"

An adaption of a very old idiom "the ghost is queer".

It is an olde english term from medival times when ghosts where common place along with knights, dragons, wizards and elves. Most ghosts were mundane and normal things but every now and then one would be up to no good and act weird by haunting someone. Hence the term "the ghost is queer". Queer simply used to mean weird back then. As ghosts became extinct the term slowly attapted into "the ghost is clear" meaning "nothing in here, not even a ghost".

It's pretty common knowledge here in England.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Is that a boast I hear

 

[Exclamation-One]

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the coasts

 

[TheOfficeMut]

Mind blown. I can't believe I've never see this phrase in writing before. At least "tow the line" makes sense, unlike this ghost nonsense.

...how does "tow the line" make more sense than "toe the line?"

How have you ever heard the expression used where "tow the line" made more sense? The idiom means to follow orders or conform to a standard. How would using a tow truck to pull a god damn line make any sense?

 

[hidys]

OP for your own safety I need you to tell me who told you the phrase "the ghost is clear"

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

The roast is veal

 

[PeskyToaster]

lord help us all

 

[Crankshaft]

I used to say "Jesus Age Christ" all the time growing up until one day I heard someone near me very distinctly say "Jesus H Christ"

H?
What does the H mean?
And why did everyone let me say Age for so long!

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

Wait I've been getting ghosted and not "coasted" this entire time?