The other day

Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:28 pm

My wife made meatloaf this evening for supper. She had also made some at the beginning of last month, and I told Clueless to eat some. I told her it was the same recipe that mom had used the other day. She took exception to my use of the phrase "the other day" because it had been more than a week. I think "the other day" can refer to any day other than today, as long as it is not more than two months ago. So who is right?

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:32 pm

i told you! when you say "the other day" it means sometime during that week, if it's more than a week then you say last week, or 2 weeks ago, it only makes sense!!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:17 am

I must agree with Clueless. I tend to say “the other day” if the event happened sometime in the past seven days. Outside of that, I say “last week”, “last month”, etc.

Hopefully this disagreement distracted your father from forcing the meat loaf on you, Clueless.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:11 pm

ha! i win! and i didnt eat the meatloaf, i had pasta instead, god bless the italians lol

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:54 pm

Some times now im older the other day is longer ago than it was when I was younger. Days fly by so quicly with working 40+ hours a week and trying to have fun.

So I'd have to agree with bookworm that if it just seemed like the other day, why not say it.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:02 pm

oh well, that pasta was good

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:33 pm

Clueless wrote: oh well, that pasta was good

I would agree with you pasta does sounds better than meatloaf.

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Stasi · Post by **Stasi** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:54 pm

I'd have to agree with Clueless. 'The other day' works as long as the day in discussion occurred in the last seven days.

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unbreakable · Post by **unbreakable** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:37 am

I somewhat believe clueless..BUT..sometimes I DO catch myself saying "the other day" when it happened like....2 months before hand. So I don't know. I usually would say "the other day" when it was the day before last. so I guess it works either way.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:31 pm

*does a victory dance* i was totally right lol

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:11 pm

I can say the other day for a couple weeks ago. Doesnt really bother me that much. If I really want to know when something happend then I'll ask them when exactly it happened.

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Minnie · Post by **Minnie** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:37 pm

clueless do your dance...you are right!

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:56 pm

*starts dancing again* dance dance! lol

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:20 pm

My wife even thinks I should have used "a while back" rather than "the other day."

She also thinks Clueless should have eaten the meatloaf.

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Minnie · Post by **Minnie** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:07 pm

Bookworm wrote: My wife even thinks I should have used "a while back" rather than "the other day."

She also thinks Clueless should have eaten the meatloaf.

meatloaf is yummy...

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VictorEM83 · Post by **VictorEM83** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:35 am

Some meatloaf is good but on the other hand I rather have beer and A1 soaked steak.

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Clueless · Post by **Clueless** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:36 pm

pasta is the best though

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