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Just wrong

I know that in the US, the phrase means something entirely different, but every time I see/hear it used, I can’t help thinking something very, very bad.

See this headline from Valleywag, Silicon Valley’s Tech Gossip Rag for an example of what I’m talking about.

That headline reads very differently from this side of the pond. That’s some serious gossip, there, if the headline is anything to go by. And then you realise that no, it doesn’t mean that after all, it just means two bits of gossip. Oh.
(don’t want to mention the phrase here, because I get enough pr0n spam already, thankyewverymuch)

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