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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 10/19/2006 : 14:17:09
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Originally posted by TitanPa
If you kill 2 birds with one stone, you should be ashamed. What were they doing at the time? The fact that they were so close that you could kill them both should have been a wake up call!
Which reminds me that a bird in the hand isn't really worth two in the bush, its worth a hand full of birdshit!
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 14:22:55
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| A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. This sounds sexual to me. I dont know about you......but how do you get 2 in the bush?????? |
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 14:24:51
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| Once bitten, twice shy? hmmm. Not me. Id come back for more :) |
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 14:31:53
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Don't stop a Donkey that isnt yours. So why not???
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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 15:00:02
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Originally posted by TitanPa
If you kill 2 birds with one stone, you should be ashamed. What were they doing at the time? The fact that they were so close that you could kill them both should have been a wake up call!
Depends on the birds. It's a sin to kill a mockingbird. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 15:13:51
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Originally posted by Downtown
quote:
Originally posted by TitanPa
If you kill 2 birds with one stone, you should be ashamed. What were they doing at the time? The fact that they were so close that you could kill them both should have been a wake up call!
Depends on the birds. It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Reminds me of one of the funniest lines in "Failure to Launch"!
("It's not an instruction manual!")
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 17:31:38
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Originally posted by Randall
But on language, I am absolutely conservative. Just because everybody does it doesn't make it correct. Of course, it will eventually, which is how our language has always evolved. But not without a fight!
Well, I will personally tie your boxing gloves and put the orange in your mouth if you will organize a delegation to march on the White House and tell the Shrub to stop mutilating the perfectly good, decent, honest, clearly pronouncable word 'nuclear'. Not only have many of his accolytes started mis-pronouncing the word in His Aural Image as 'noo-cu-lar' but it even affected puppy-Blair in one press conference, and now [shudder] I have even heard some BBC announcers following suit.
Although it does hurt to hear it, nuclear/nucular is as harmless to the language as is potayto/potahto. I've even heard it used like "I fink" to denote class in America; listen to Michael Douglas pronounce the word in THE CHINA SYNDROME, for example.
Pronunciation is a funny thing. Most Southerners I know have never employed the glottal stop required to "correctly" pronounce the word "masks"; it comes out "mass." They have trouble with the "sch" sound...it's foreign to them: "Sslitz beer." But in all cases, the linguistic meaning is still clear. [I can make Jewish friends howl by imitating a fictitious Southern Jew: "You sssmuuuck!"]
Where I get really mad is when the actual meaning is clouded, most of the time by ignorance. [Bush: "They misunderestimated me." "Is our children learning?" He's such a prime mover that I've used a George W. Bushisms page-a-day calendar with a different idiotic quote every day since, ahem, the turn of the century.] |
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turrell 
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 17:43:35
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Falken
"Intestinal Fourtitude."
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 18:37:39
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Originally posted by TitanPa
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. This sounds sexual to me. I dont know about you......but how do you get 2 in the bush??????
Practice, practice, practice!
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 10/19/2006 : 19:18:27
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Originally posted by turrell
STRATEGERY
One of the single funniest moments in the history of SNL. That sketch will go down as one of the all-time classics. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 10/20/2006 : 16:25:37
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| Possibly the most misused word today is "ironic." Something that happens to be interesting, unusual, coincidental, or anything that "really makes you think," is not necessarily "ironic." |
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 10/20/2006 : 16:59:04
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Originally posted by Downtown
Possibly the most misused word today is "ironic." Something that happens to be interesting, unusual, coincidental, or anything that "really makes you think," is not necessarily "ironic."
Isnt it Ironic? Dont you think? |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 10/20/2006 : 17:12:45
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Originally posted by Downtown
It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Oh, I thought it was "a sin to tell a lie" ... well, that's according to Fats Waller  
The Byrds in your record collection is worth two Bushes in the White House.
An applet a day keeps the Geek Doctor away.
The grass is always greener than the weed in your pot.
Don't attack Venus di Milo - she's 'armless.
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 10/21/2006 : 09:28:06
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Originally posted by TitanPa
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Originally posted by Downtown
Possibly the most misused word today is "ironic." Something that happens to be interesting, unusual, coincidental, or anything that "really makes you think," is not necessarily "ironic."
Isnt it Ironic? Dont you think?
Hell, that whole Alanis Morrisette song - the only thing ironic about it is that nothing in the whole song is actually ironic!
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 10/21/2006 : 19:29:33
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
The Byrds in your record collection is worth two Bushes in the White House.
Do you still vote? If so where are you registered - same question for Chocky? |
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Poorly worded idioms
