Nuts and Bolts Of It, The
Taken on the 15th of May 2004 and uploaded on the 15th of November 2025.
I like reading and sometimes get hung up on what I think are particularly silly phrases, probably used to pad out poor writing and add a false sense of authenticity to naff dialogue, see Dan Brown. I remember reading a book aged 11 or 12 by Al Jaffee which is probably the cause of this...anyway, to show I can be as meaninglessly verbose as anyone, I have compiled a short list of conversational aphorisms which serve the same purpose: two people blethering about something neither really understand who have reached a point where one has said something the other can't refute or qualify or honestly agree to: "Yes, this is it." says the second.
Philosophers: "That's the gist of it."
Pedants: "That's the truth of it."
Pretentious P&*@#s: "That's the long and the short of it."
Engineers:"That's the nuts and bolts of it."
Blah, blah, blah.
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Nuts and Bolts Of It, The
Taken on the 15th of May 2004 and uploaded on the 15th of November 2025.
I like reading and sometimes get hung up on what I think are particularly silly phrases, probably used to pad out poor writing and add a false sense of authenticity to naff dialogue, see Dan Brown. I remember reading a book aged 11 or 12 by Al Jaffee which is probably the cause of this...anyway, to show I can be as meaninglessly verbose as anyone, I have compiled a short list of conversational aphorisms which serve the same purpose: two people blethering about something neither really understand who have reached a point where one has said something the other can't refute or qualify or honestly agree to: "Yes, this is it." says the second.
Philosophers: "That's the gist of it."
Pedants: "That's the truth of it."
Pretentious P&*@#s: "That's the long and the short of it."
Engineers:"That's the nuts and bolts of it."
Blah, blah, blah.
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