From: Gareth Adams Date: 2008-05-28T02:59:34+09:00 Subject: Re: Top-posting Francis Burton wrote: >> 3. Otherwise, I couldn't care less what you do. :) > > Or you could care less. :-) Maybe I'm missing some irony or sarcasm here, but I see this mistake a lot too. If you *could* care less, then you already care a certain amount. However the intention is to indicate that you care the minimum amount possible, and therefore you *couldn't* possibly care less. So, OP was correct. Gareth