RE: documentary on salinger?

I could give a rat's butt. Does this mean that rat's butts are valuable?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Rovira [mailto:jrovira@drew.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:13 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: documentary on salinger?

I've always wondered if that phrase really worked:

"I could care less."

I know that's how people use it. But it just doesn't make sense to me.
It sounds like it is, indeed, possible for you to care less, meaning
that you still do care a little bit, if only a very little bit. It's
like saying, I could hate it more. It means you don't hate something as
much as you possibly could.

Now, if you were to say, I couldn't care less -- now that would be
saying something. It's simply not possible to care less in this case.
It would mean that you care for this as little as it is possible to care
for it. You care for it to the point of not caring at all -- utterly.

Now this is a more sensible expression of contempt.

The real question now is, could you or could you not care less? :)

Jim

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Received on Tue Nov 12 09:50:46 2002