Can you have your cake and eat it?

faceman · 30-06-2006 09:36PM #1

Well can you? Give examples in your replies pls.

muletide · 30-06-2006 09:37PM

I thought you were heading out for the night ?

faceman · 30-06-2006 09:38PM

Was supposed to but the burd is watching big brother. Its still on and faceman not happy.

Nalz · 30-06-2006 09:40PM

dont think so, unless you puek your caca milis back up!!!
Ah no seriously I dunno, nothin springs to mind (other than why ya askin?)

joe_chicken · 30-06-2006 09:44PM

I don't know why people get so confused about this... it's really not that hard...

No, you can't have your cake and eat it.... well.... as far as the meaning behind the expression goes anyway

30-06-2006 09:54PM

If you have it, then you've eaten it... so no...

ThrownAway · 30-06-2006 09:58PM

joe_chicken wrote:

I don't know why people get so confused about this... it's really not that hard...

No, you can't have your cake and eat it.... well.... as far as the meaning behind the expression goes anyway

''You have the cake and it''
''You have your cake and eat it''

That's where people get confused if it's your cake then the term have would automatically mean to eat it.

joe_chicken · 30-06-2006 10:04PM

Ok...

You're sitting at home with a lovely big cake... it looks lovely... with those little flowery things and maybe some pink icing.

...You have a cake

Then you eat it...

... You don't have a cake

So the answer is NO, you cannot have your cake AND eat it... it's impossible

Unless having it in your stomach counts, but for the sake of the meaning of this expression... it doesnt

ThrownAway · 30-06-2006 10:10PM

I think we've the same point but we explained it differently

faceman · 30-06-2006 10:12PM

im lost, who's cake was eaten?

Nalz · 30-06-2006 10:21PM

ah ffs, if you eat your cake you wont have it anymore...

ya know it, ya know
ya know it, ya know
ya know it, ya know
Loose...what a band.

Scraggs · 30-06-2006 10:23PM

Well you can make your bed and lie in it!

simu · 01-07-2006 01:24AM

Yes. Just replicate it first.

Dave! · 01-07-2006 01:37AM

Steps...

1. get a cake
2. eat the cake
3. cake is no longer present

therefore, if you eat the cake, then you not longer have it (in your hands, anyway. poo doesn't count).

azezil · 01-07-2006 09:26AM

but before it turns to poo you're holding the cake inside of you THUS you CAN have your cake and eat it! *\o/*

Dooom · 01-07-2006 09:38AM

Cloning wouldn't work, because it'd being in the whole multiple cake idea. Which would in turn result in the eating of said cake(s) for all eternity.

Diarmiud · 01-07-2006 11:17AM

Of course you can have your cake and eat it. Some of it is going to be digested and incorporated into your body, so it still will be present. Sheesh!

grimloch · 01-07-2006 11:19AM

Yes.

http://picard.ytmnd.com/

Doctor DooM · 01-07-2006 11:22AM

What happens if you eat only half of your cake?

(Which is a tremendous waste of precious cakealitic resources, but anywho)

01-07-2006 11:23AM

I play for pay. In other words, I enjoy acting and someone now pays me to do it, whereas, awhile back I volunteered to act without pay.

Dooom · 01-07-2006 11:25AM

So..you pretend to eat cake and you get payed to do it? Or do you have to eat the cake aswell?

01-07-2006 11:25AM

Diarmiud wrote:

Of course you can have your cake and eat it. Some of it is going to be digested and incorporated into your body, so it still will be present. Sheesh!

Humour?:D

Doctor DooM · 01-07-2006 11:30AM

Whassat got to do with the price of haddock?

I thought this was a literal thing... I get paid to play music. I guess that counts as possessing a cake and at the sametime, masticating it. If you want to go down that route.

Diarmiud · 01-07-2006 11:33AM

Humour? Ahm, yes, there is a possiblity that the molecules of the cake could become part of the various body humours. Bile, gastric acids, etc.

Inciidently, does the thread title become irrelevant when translated ino Irish? There is no verb for "to have" as gaelige, so technically one coould only eat theiir caca mileas.

Doctor DooM · 01-07-2006 11:34AM

That makes me pretty upset for the gaelgoiri.

We should set up a charity

Dooom · 01-07-2006 11:38AM

Could you not use "to own" or "to belong to" instead of "to have"?

I always knew that purple monkey as going to get it's revenge on the invisible pineapple.

01-07-2006 11:39AM

Pillowman: A practical man? The chemical composition of cake and how it's absorbed into the body? How about the more touchy feely things in life, like a met a phor?

Diarmiud · 01-07-2006 11:43AM

Spike wrote:

Could you not use "to own" or "to belong to" instead of "to have"?

I always knew that purple monkey as going to get it's revenge on the invisible pineapple.

To answer your question, Ta (damn, no word for yes!)

Nil (damn, no word for no!), noone gains revenge on that obscure friut.

Doctor DooM · 01-07-2006 11:44AM

Fear the pineapple.

Diarmiud · 01-07-2006 11:46AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Pillowman: A practical man? The chemical composition of cake and how it's absorbed into the body? How about the more touchy feely things in life, like a met a phor?

Hmmm...the cchicken and the egg solved their connundrum by making love. Therefore, the "have" should seduce "eat" and see which comes out on top?

01-07-2006 11:51AM

Diarmiud wrote:

Hmmm...the cchicken and the egg solved their connundrum by making love. Therefore, the "have" should seduce "eat" and see which comes out on top?

Whoa! Now you are talking metaphors!

Can you have your cake and eat it?

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