>>One of my favorites: "That brings up a third down situation." Oh, is that the situation? It doesn't just bring up THIRD DOWN? (Channeling George Carlin).
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>>Another one, which is almost a reflexive statement when the ball is close to the first down marker: "It all depends on the spot." Uh, yeah....
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>One of our house favorites: "X-rays were negative." Well, of course, they were. They're always negatives.
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>Tamar

First time I filled in an application form with the question: "Have you ever had a chest X-ray and if so, what was the result: positive or negative?". Well at the time I didn't know what the convention was: positive meaning "showing something amiss" or "everything's fine, (as in attitude)"; negative meaning "nothing amiss showing" or "There's nothing down for you". In the end I wrote "No problems shown" :-)

Incidentally, when I was a trainee radiographer, years later, I took x-rays of a carnation and a daffodil, then printed positives of them. Very pretty.