Why do they say "you can not have your cake and eat it to"?

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If you make a cake why do you not have a right to eat it? I mean if you spend all that time making it dont you deserve at least one piece? Yes I do understand what this means and I do agree with it. I however I do not understand why they use the phrase to refer to it. If you have a thanksgiving dinner and the mom makes all the food are you going to tell her "You can not have any"! Since you made it"! I mean how rude is that? She made the dinner didnt she?

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    Because it doesn't mean that at all. It means "you can't have two mutually exclusive things", like eating a cake and having a cake. Once you eat a cake, you can't have it anymore because it's gone.

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    Those fat bastards want your cake. And what's this shit about stoned birds?? Leave 'em alone!!!

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      It means if you could get the two for one special go for that. If you can solve both problems at once it is more efficient and less wasted effort. Ever heard the term work smarter not harder?

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      • dirtybirdy
        11 years ago

        I know what it means. And yes, I have told plenty of people to work smarter not harder.

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        • robbieforgotpw
          11 years ago

          You should work harder not smarter so everyone can see the hard worker you are, lol right?

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  • thefunkyone
    11 years ago

    The original saying is you can't eat your cake and have it to. Meaning if you eat it, it's gone and you will no longer have it. Makes more sense that way.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Actually that way of looking at it makes a lot more sense. Since my view just makes whoever is telling you just mean selfish.

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    • bananaface
      11 years ago

      OOOH! That makes so much sense, I never clicked. I'm awful with phrases and stuff like that.

      Thank you:D!!

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      • ForeverAChild
        11 years ago

        I'm sorry to bother you but could you start talking to Chewy again? He is sorry for saying that he will commit suicide and he won't do it again. Could you please forgive Chewy and talk to him again? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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        • bananaface
          11 years ago

          Firstly, you're clearly not that sorry about bothering me with this trivial shit, otherwise you wouldn't do it, would you?

          I have absolutely no interest in talking to chewy, regardless of his tendency to act pathetically in an attempt to get attention. I don't like him, I've never been fond of him, and why he is *still* bothering me over this is beyond me. It's not like I've ever considered him a friend. I'll repeat (since the stupid amounts of other times I've said this clearly weren't enough): I do *NOT* want to talk to chewy, be talked to BY chewy (or any of his other accounts). He is an awful person, and he makes IIN less enjoyable for me. I would rather leave IIN than spend any time talking to him.

          Seriously, stop pestering me; it must have been over a year now, DROP IT. I've never been his friend, so why this is still an issue is beyond me. I'm finding it hard to express how much I DON'T want to talk to him, although I think I've expressed my disdain for him well enough.

          Could you please tell Chewy (if this isn't him), to fuck off and never try to talk to me again? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.;)

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          • robbieforgotpw
            11 years ago

            I have a hard time understanding Chewy. He makes a lot of incoherent noises that im not able to interpret.

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  • robbieforgotpw
    11 years ago

    You can't take a dump and smell it too. At least I can't.

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    I know exactly what you mean. I often am puzzled over the origins as well as, sometimes, the meanings of such phrases. Who came up with "kill two birds with one stone" or "no use crying over spilled milk"?
    Was it a psychopath who needed a way to cover up his crimes of serial killing aviaries? Or, was the woman who cried over spilled milk a maid with overbearing bastards for bosses?

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    • robbieforgotpw
      11 years ago

      have you heard the phrase "Franks and beans, Franks and beans?" the origin?

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        I think I have heard the phrase but I'm uncertain on the origin.

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        • robbieforgotpw
          11 years ago

          Something about Mary.
          Warren yelled that after Ted caught himself in his zipper.

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    • Anime7
      11 years ago

      Perhaps there was a time when mankind had a shortage of rocks, so to increase hunting efficiency and decrease stone usage, we decided to kill two birds with only one stone. And maybe some guy decided to spread the word about this new way of hunting to the next village and so on.

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        That seems plausible. They could have made a lot of bird pies from the convenient huntings.

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        • Anime7
          11 years ago

          Is that an actual type of pie?

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          • Avant-Garde
            11 years ago

            I'm not entirely sure. There's something called a "Pie Bird" and there is a very old nursery rhyme called,"Sing a Song of Sixpence" where a king has 24 blackbirds baked into a pie. Shepard's Pie often contains chicken. The only other birds I can image being made into a pie are duck and goose. I think with other types of birds like Pigeons, there's too much of a risk of deadly infections for them to be consumed.

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            • wigsplitz
              11 years ago

              Chicken pot pie? Turkey pot pie?

              Have you ever seen a duck press? Yeah! Duck juice!

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              11 years ago

              Some birds have eaten pigeons. You can pretty much eat anything on this planet aside from thinks like blow fish. You can even eat a snake though I am curious how they do that without getting poisoned. You can eat monkeys and crocodiles and buffalo though a lot of them have gone extinct in most places. I think you could eat something like lions and bears if you were willing to kill it.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Well kill two birds with one stone makes sense both metaphorically and literally. No use crying over spilt milk means well it over get on with your life. Generally when someone makes a cake should they not get a piece? Does that make any sense at all? I mean it is only fair right?

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        11 years ago

        *things*

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      • Avant-Garde
        11 years ago

        I doesn't make sense unless of course, the person who made the cake is on a diet or has type 2 diabetes.

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