I have been known to be wrong on occasion. But all of those times I have been alive. Point is although many an alive person uses the phrase 'dead wrong' to describe an event it is with exterme prejudice. They may wish that someone was dead and wrong but usually the latter holds true if that.
So I am not sure why this term continues to be in existence. Besides is it relevant that someone was wrong if he was dead? Dead is the ultimate. Finito. Kaput. So what matters is there is no more right or wrong. Just dead.
Consequently there is also no recorded reference to someone being DEAD RIGHT. What's with that? Young man Charlie was always right - but he is dead. Dead Right. Or could it be that it describes the act of dying itself? Right way vs. wrong way to die?
He died in his sleep - dead right. He died trying to blow up a building - dead wrong?
I am not sure I have the answers but in the same vein I will leave you to ponder what Breathtaking really means? To me we are all breath taking otherwise we would be Dead - right?
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
Breathtaking means exceptional- so we may actually NOT be breathtaking. Don't know if I am dead right or dead wrong!
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