2007-04-17 10:39:24 · 17 answers · asked by GleN 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
How about... eat someone else's cake.
2007-04-17 10:46:29 · answer #1 · answered by ViCKi!™|` 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original and only sensible version of this saying is “You can’t eat your cake and have it too,” meaning that if you eat your cake you won’t have it any more. People get confused because we use the expression “have some cake” to mean “eat some cake,” and they therefore misunderstand what “have” means in this expression.
2007-04-17 17:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by jakechristian75 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I KNOW what effin good is cake if you cant eat it too..... some idiot mustve invented thta phrase.... also the person who probably made up that phrase was probably on a diet...and couldnt have cake...so they decided no one could! hehe :D
idk some people might just like to hold cake...who knows, but i like to look and eat cake. THATS MY WAY
but actually people just say that to not have a literal meaning of course
2007-04-17 17:43:48 · answer #3 · answered by BrownieMonster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably can't do anything with the cake, and so your boredom develops into the need of smashing the cake into one's face.
2007-04-17 17:43:21 · answer #4 · answered by Banana Hero [sic] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummm. Maybe it's a dogfood cake (dog treat). Or a cat treat cake. I don't know. Personally when I buy cake (chocolate cheesecake) I intend not only to eat it, but to eat it all by myself and all in one setting. (and no i'm not fat, i'm only a few lbs over my ideal weight)
2007-04-17 17:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by goddessmelanisia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't actually refer to cake, it is like i a man or woman wants their wife and family but wants to cheat, he/she is said to want their cake and to eat it too, they want both. The best of both worlds, understand?
2007-04-17 17:43:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is supposed to be "You can't EAT your cake and HAVE it Too" but if you point that out you are arrested because that's what happened to the Unibomber. Seriously. His brother recognized that in a publishes letter from the Unibomber. ( I guess it's a bad day to mention a bomber, sorry.)
2007-04-17 17:47:44 · answer #7 · answered by Dovey 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's a great question! How can you eat a cake that you haven't got it in your grubby mitts?
2007-04-17 17:42:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you eat the cake, it's not there anymore, and you no longer "have it"
2007-04-17 17:42:45 · answer #9 · answered by KC Slim 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you have cake -- you have cake.
When you eat cake, you don't have it anymore (it's in your stomach being digested).
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2007-04-17 17:43:32 · answer #10 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋