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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007Clear a weirdness bar in street shoes
Hello! There was a line in an episode of "Two and a Half Men" which I just don't get language-wise. Charly says to a rather strange (tall) woman "My weirdness bar for chicks is pretty high but you are clearing it in street shoes". 2 things I don't get: 1- if you can clear a bar you don't run into it, right? So if she clears his bar then she's NOT weird if I understand this correctly. But then it doesn't make any sense. 2- street shoes- are those shoes with no or little heel? If so then it would make only sense to me if he said something like "you crash into the bar even in (low) street shoes". Can a native speaker please explain and make this clear? Thank you! On 12 Jan 2007, geozec@googlemail.com wrote > Hello! > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Can a native speaker please explain and make this clear? Thank > you! "Clearing the bar" -- a "pretty high" one -- is succeeding at high- jumping; he's saying that his criterion ark for considering something to be weird requires fairly weird behaviour. "Street shoes" is as opposed to "track shoes": the person is succeeding in hitting the target (of being weird) without having to try very hard.  SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van On 12 Jan 2007, HVS wrote > On 12 Jan 2007, geozec@googlemail.com wrote > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > "Clearing the bar" -- a "pretty high" one -- is succeeding at > high- jumping; he's saying that his criterion ark Oops; typo (left-over editing change from "mark"). Please ignore "ark". SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van would you be so kind on helping me to make sure the following is good english? or how can I make the following sound better... thanks: "this information is very helpful in preparing myself for a meeting.....thanks " > On 12 Jan 2007, HVS wrote > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed > For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - > would you be so kind on helping me to make sure the following is good > english? or how can I make the following sound better... thanks: "this > information is very helpful in preparing myself for a meeting.....thanks " I'm not sure what this has to do with weirdness bars, but your sentence sounds good to me. Depending on context, it might be improved by deleting "myself" from the sentence. SignatureJohn Varela Trade NEW lamps for OLD for email. > On 12 Jan 2007, geozec@googlemail.com wrote > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > jumping; he's saying that his criterion ark for considering > something to be weird requires fairly weird behaviour. Unless it's a limbo bar. > "Street shoes" is as opposed to "track shoes": the person is > succeeding in hitting the target (of being weird) without having to > try very hard. It certainly seemed like a mixed up turn of phrase to this native. Phil Signature"Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of /In God We Trust, Inc./. would you be so kind on helping me to make sure the following is good english? or how can I make the following sound better... thanks: "this information is very helpful in preparing myself for a meeting.....thanks " > On 12 Jan 2007, geo...@googlemail.com wrote > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed > For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - > would you be so kind on helping me to make sure the following is good > english? or how can I make the following sound better... thanks: [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed > > For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text - Well it seemed pretty clear to this non-native. Remember it's his bar so he's saying you have to be really high on the scale of weirdness before he personally considers you weird. That she goes past the bar and very easily (no special training or equipment required) means that she is extremely weird by normal standards and very weird even by his! |
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