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Just so you know I'm around...

As writers, of course we're exhorted to avoid clichés like the plague. But you know, sometimes we just have to go with the flow. Well, here's some cliché origins you probably didn't want to know about, but you're going to click on anyway, just for the hell of it:

http://www.cracked.com/article_16108_bizarre-history-10-common-sayings.html

A lot of the English language seems to have been developed as some kind of elaborate practical joke. It's full of little sayings and idioms that on their face make no sense at all, and if traced back to their origins are downright horrifying.

Right or wrong, these 10 sayings have some of the strangest (and most unsettling) histories:

Of course, that reminds me of this little gem some anonymous poster on the internet said about the origins of English (edited to correct the ubiquitous anonymous-internet-poster misspellings):

"I always thought of English as the bastard child of an orgy of languages ending with a huge bukkake leaving German covered in the messy splooge of all the others. German is seeking a paternity test while Latin fled the scene and French is denying everything."

And I'll just leave you with that image...