>>>Sidenote: A relatively fresh example of "can't be picky" was while I was learning Hungarian - when buying a burger, I learned what to say to get it simple, without bells nor whistles. Well, the word in use meant "smooth", which I was later told was bad usage. Which I can't be responsible for - hey, it's your language, teach your burger market to speak properly :). On second thought, that must have been a borrowing-by-meaning from German or the Slavic neighbors - smooth is 'glatt' and 'gladak' respectively, and we do say "klot pasulj" (obviously spoiled German word) for 'beans with nothing'.
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>>"...without bells nor whistles" - "Without" is already "negative"
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>>So "without [either] bells or whistles" or "with neither bells nor whistles"
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>>But can't usually teach you owt about our language, and I suspect it was a typo anyway :-)
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>Usually you can out... but you just did. Have out known that 'out' qualifies as a negation...

Sorta. Like "He's come without his girlfriend" might be stated "He's come minus his girlfriend"
Did you know, btw, that the negation of "can" is usually "cannot" as one word?