This blog (along with many painfully hilarious stories) really owes its origins to a certain ex-bf who thought that the phrase "might as well" was "minus swell." I somehow extrapolated a surfing reference from it, but really it is a pretty unpoetic phrase made nonsensical by the misinterpretation.
How do weird phrases like "might as well" happen? English is full of these little sayings that are untranslatable, relying on nothing words to say something in one of those tenses that you only use when you mean, "kinda maybe sorta." It's amazing that we can communicate at all, hence my growing belief in nonverbal communication.
The less said, the better.
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