The Guy Dictionary

| Sunday, February 3, 2008

THE GUY DICTIONARY ---> "CAN I HELP WITH DINNER?"
Translated: "Why isn't it already on the table?" ---> "UH HUH," "SURE, HONEY," OR "YES, DEAR"
Translated: Absolutely nothing. It's a conditioned response. ---> "IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN"
Translated: "I have no idea how it works." ---> "I WAS LISTENING TO YOU. IT'S JUST THAT I HAVE THINGS ON MY MIND."
Translated: "That girl standing on the corner is a real babe." ---> "TAKE A BREAK HONEY, YOU'RE WORKING TOO HARD."
Translated: "I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner." ---> "I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU, AND GOT YOU THESE ROSES."
Translated: "The girl selling them on the corner was a real babe." ---> "OH, DON'T FUSS - I JUST CUT MYSELF, IT'S NO BIG DEAL."
Translated: "I have actually severed a limb, but
will bleed to death before I admit that I'm hurt." ---> "I CAN'T FIND IT."
Translated: "It didn't fall into my outstretched hands, so I'm completely clueless." ---> "WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?"
Translated: "What did you catch me at?" ---> "I HEARD YOU."
Translated: "I haven't the foggiest clue what you just said, and am hoping desperately that I can fake it well enough so that you don't spend the next three days yelling at me." ---> "YOU KNOW I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE ELSE."
Translated: "I am used to the way you yell at me, and realize it could be worse." ---> "YOU LOOK TERRIFIC."
Translated: "Oh, God, please don't try on one more outfit, I'm starving." ---> "I'M NOT LOST. I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE."
Translated: "No one will ever see us alive again."



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