Well, they look so good
I want to eat 'em
And they taste so good
I get to need 'em
Can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-can-candy
Candy
[Chorus]
Candy corn
Yellow and orange and
Candy corn
Yellow and orange and
Candy
[Verse 2]
Be reborn
Be reformed
Grow the storm
Stay, stay warm
Be reborn
Be reformed
Grow the storm
Stay, stay warm
FYP
I’ve started a campaign for a Walrus entry.
I haven’t had a candy corn in decades, but I have fond memories. They have a waxy texture that’s unconventional but not unpleasant. I definitely didn’t hate them.
But I suspect they’re better in theory than in practice. To me, they represent nostalgia for a more innocent time, the 70s. A different cultural milieu. Bugs Bunny cartoons and an ice cream cone for a nickel. Disco music and our nation’s glorious bicentennial. As a wise man once said, “Those tall ships really lifted the nation’s spirits after Watergate.” Could we not say the same about candy corns? 
Nothing is worse than a buttered popcorn flavored jelly belly.
Tastes like urine.
This is actually a bad take. A lot of rules of usage are fundamentally arbitrary, like whether the past tense of to run is ran or ranned. These rules are purely a matter of fashion and evolve culturally. The specific meaning of words is also arbitrary. It’s not arbitrary, though, whether the meaning of the different words used in an expression add up to the meaning of the expression. It’s objectively undesirable for idioms to mean the opposite of the words that make them up mean.
I did not make a value judgment and am actually on your side about this. My point was that this will happen irregardless (CWIDT?!), and despite probably feeling more strongly about this than you, I’ve made my peace with it.
Besides bob, we’re having a laff about grammar. Join us in having a little fun.
Do you have a similar problem with “Big deal”, “Tell me about it” etc?
Difference between intentional sarcasm and not understanding negatives.
I don’t think it is. His name is kind of mud post-Epstein, but Steven Pinker agrees with me (or did ca. 1994, he’s now a ‘literally’ bore so who knows):
The melodies and stresses are completely different, and for a good reason. The second version is not illogical, it’s sarcastic. The point of sarcasm is that by making an assertion that is manifestly false or accompanied by ostentatiously mannered intonation, one deliberately implies its opposite. A good paraphrase is, “Oh yeah, as if there were something in the world that I care less about.”
New thread idea:
Cunning Linguists Discuss Grammar and Shit
You guys are KILLING IT
Slow down or my head will explode
I’m a man with certain proclivities which are well known, a slave to my baser passions. Once the discussion began, my involvement was inevitable. I will not - cannot - apologise for giving voice to my very soul.
This is a couple of days late, but my new hot take on theranos is that both holmes and sunny are going to be cleared of all charges at their trials. holmes by employing an, “I didn’t know that it didn’t work and all my top people were telling me that it was fine” defense, and sunny with, “We just needed more time and would have gotten it to work if it wasn’t for the media.”
Just as I always suspected, Clovis is this forum’s voice of reason!
No just no.
Unless I’m thinking of a different thing… We have Cola Bottles that are great. 
Apparently I’m not the only one who’s been on a candy corn bender.