I've got one - had the shirt for about 3 years...
I believe it was designed by a Claiborne Parish boy
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Please stop saying, " I could care less".
http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html
More precise. I care very little about X, but it's possible that under the optimal circumstances, I could care less.
Engineers (for example) care about the details, and tend to be wary of absolute statements (that aren't absolutely accurate).
On the other hand, it could be a malapropism. I'd suggest letting context guide you in whether to be peeved or not. If you see a slide rule, then the speaker is probably being pedantic and hoping you'll call him on it so he can argue with you. If the speaker is wearing an ugly purple shirt with a big eyeball on it, it's likely that it's a mistake, but you'll probably be wasting your time trying to correct them. If it is someone from the call center, cut them some slack (they're working in a second language for goodness sakes). If it's a grade school kid, gently correct. If it's a teenager, tell them to pull their pants up. If it's your boss, smile and nod.
Sometimes I save less common words for my haiku, but not always. Oddly enough, those particular examples are words I'm fairly familar with. :o
As for the slide rule, I'm actually a little too young for that reference myself. But I bet even the current generation of engineering students know what they are from hearing professors reference them all the time.
My peeve every day is any person who attended Tech claiming lsu as "their team", but today it is a person who graduated Tech, kids went to Tech, works for Tech, but lsu is their favorite team. Sickening!
When someone responds to you with, "I'll get back to you on that."
When you are placed on hold 6 times and the line goes dead every time. Obviously they don't want to make any money.
Auto voice response phone calls. I get loud with them.:icon_roll: