You have another ________ coming

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  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
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    You have another thing coming. Think doesn't make any sense. You're threatening to punish them. Thats the "thing"

    But what does the "another" refer to? If the thing is referencing a punishment, why not say "you've got "a thing coming" or "something coming"?

    I've got a thing, but not another thing. I think. smiley-confused002.gif
  • xo_jewel_xo
    xo_jewel_xo Posts: 696 Member
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    *HEADDESK*

    Sorry, would you rather yet another post about eating exercise calories?

    Ha! No, but could you post one about what you find attractive in the opposite sex, please? :wink:

    Or maybe another TOM thread?? :laugh:
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
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    I'm in Texas, here both words are wrong. Its "yew gottanuther theen cumin"
    Now THAT I like!
  • hamncheese67
    hamncheese67 Posts: 1,715 Member
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    They are both correct. This is from Wikipedia (read the last line):

    "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was originally released on their 1982 album Screaming for Vengeance and released as a single later that year. In May 2006, VH1 ranked it fifth on their list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs.

    The song reached #67 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, making it Judas Priest's only charting song in the United States.

    The song's title is an eggcorn idiom, in use since at least 1919, from the original expression, "You've got another think coming," published as early as 1898.
  • Juliebean_1027
    Juliebean_1027 Posts: 713 Member
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    *HEADDESK*

    Sorry, would you rather yet another post about eating exercise calories?

    Ha! No, but could you post one about what you find attractive in the opposite sex, please? :wink:

    Or maybe another TOM thread?? :laugh:

    Yes! Those are definitely my favorite! (Also, I'm finding a serious need for a 'sarcasm' smiley today. Where's the eye roll smiley when you need him/her?)
  • iAMaPhoenix
    iAMaPhoenix Posts: 1,038 Member
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    I got to the second paragraph and my head exploded...
  • starracer23
    starracer23 Posts: 1,011 Member
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    T-H-I-N-G!!
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
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    If you believe it's "think", you have another thing coming.
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
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    It's a British phrase, not an American one and it's definitely another THINK coming. You think wrongly so you need to think again. How can you have ANOTHER thing coming when there wasn't a first thing?

    It IS a British phrase, and it is THING. Only idiots say think. Probably the same people who pronounce something "sump think" and think H has an h at the start of it.

    LOL...or the same who say "expecially"....oh how we could probably go on about mispronounced words!
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
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    My friends and I have a way to resolve disputes like this. Try this link...

    http://tinyurl.com/6z262tw

    Funny, but I'm pretty sure I said I googled it and got mixed responses. Darn that dissapearing ink!



    "I did some googling (yes I am very bored) and it seems half the world says "think", the other half say "thing". Those who say think, say people might think (no pun intended) that it's thing because phonetically think does sound like thingk, and the KA ending of think blurs with the CA beginning of coming, so therefore over time people thought it was "thing"."
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
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    I'm in Texas, here both words are wrong. Its "yew gottanuthatheen cumin"
    cumin
  • kaits108
    kaits108 Posts: 305 Member
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    I think this thread is a MOO point

    :laugh: that was such a good episode!
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
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    The song's title is an eggcorn idiom, in use since at least 1919, from the original expression, "You've got another think coming," published as early as 1898.
    So, it's a matter of preference. 19th century or 21st?
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
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    I'm in Texas, here both words are wrong. Its "yew gottanuthatheen cumin"
    cumin
    With one "m", a fantastic condiment. Makes for killer tamales when you toss some whole seeds into the masa.

    With two "m", equally fantastic -- but not in the masa.
  • crisanderson27
    crisanderson27 Posts: 5,343 Member
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    How is this even a debate??
    *HEADDESK*
    I'll get us both some ice, dear...

    Me too, please.
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
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    I think this thread is a MOO point

    Ha, it's a cow's opinion, just doesn't matter.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
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    I think this thread is a MOO point
    Not as bad as the time a user called it a mute point.
    :huh:
  • McKayMachina
    McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
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    Did you even TRY to google it?

    http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/thing.html
  • Gigi_licious
    Gigi_licious Posts: 1,185 Member
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    I'm in Texas, here both words are wrong. Its "yew gottanuthatheen cumin"
    cumin
    With one "m", a fantastic condiment. Makes for killer tamales when you toss some whole seeds into the masa.

    With two "m", equally fantastic -- but not in the masa.

    Roflmao....you two

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