Comments on: Get Bent http://www.bencode.com/get-bent/ Coffee rocks Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:21:12 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: ben http://www.bencode.com/get-bent/comment-page-1/#comment-15 ben Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:11:19 +0000 http://www.bencode.com/get-bent/#comment-15 When seeing "Get Bent" on a T-Shirt, Flanders says, "Well, the only thing that could mean is 'kneel down and pray.' We'll take the whole box. Get Bent, everyone." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_bent" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia says</a>: Get bent is an American idiom intended to dismiss a person or what they are saying, and end the conversation. Similar to "Get lost" or "Go soak your head" it conveys that the interlocutor has lost the respect of the speaker and that the speaker would appreciate it if the interlocutor damaged, misplaced, or humiliated themselves. When seeing “Get Bent” on a T-Shirt, Flanders says, “Well, the only thing that could mean is ‘kneel down and pray.’ We’ll take the whole box. Get Bent, everyone.”

Wikipedia says:
Get bent is an American idiom intended to dismiss a person or what they are saying, and end the conversation. Similar to “Get lost” or “Go soak your head” it conveys that the interlocutor has lost the respect of the speaker and that the speaker would appreciate it if the interlocutor damaged, misplaced, or humiliated themselves.

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