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Wed Jun-16-04 02:32 PM
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What cliche that you hear people misstate drives you bonkers.... |
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The one that drives me bonkers is:
I could care less.
The phrase is "I COULDN'T care less".
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:39 PM
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 02:40 PM by redwitch
It makes me grind my teeth.
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:07 PM
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:41 PM
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2. All intensive purposes instead of all intents and purposes. |
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:47 PM
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instead of moot! Drives me crazy and they insist they're right.
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:48 PM
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4. Makes you wish they were mute...... |
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But it is usually a moot point to try to argue with them.
I hate that one as well.
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:56 PM
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9. According to Joey on "Friends"... |
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A moo point is like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter.
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:50 PM
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5. When people change their minds and then call it a 360. eom |
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 03:02 PM by SMIRKY_W_BINLADEN
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:50 PM
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6. Here here!, tow the line, etc. |
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Please spell these appropriately--they are:
"Hear, hear!"
"Toe the line."
Thank you.
:silly:
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:42 PM
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18. That "Towing the line" phrase has always driven me nuts....eom |
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:51 PM
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34. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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SO many people here say "here, here!" and it drives me batty EVERY GODDAMN TIME!
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:52 PM
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7. "Chomp at the bit" drives me batty.... |
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It's "champ" everybody!
Champ. Horses champ.
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:11 PM
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14. Maybe it's a regional pronunciation thingy.... |
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some people say "dahmp" for "damp" and "stahmp" for "stamp"...
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:15 PM
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15. No, "chomp" is quite common, despite regional variations. |
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And wrong. It's a real hot button with me for some reason.
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:44 PM
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:48 PM
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33. Bad news, Richardo... |
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:16 PM
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 05:21 PM by Richardo
I maintain my pissiness. From yourdictionary.com: Don't Say:......Do Say: chomp at the bit...champ at the bit "Chomp" has probably replaced "champ" in the U.S. but we thought you might like to be reminded that the vowel should be 'æ' not 'o'. http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:41 PM
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49. As true as that may be, too many sources use 'chomp' |
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 05:41 PM by SOteric
for it to be considered an error. Ergo, I assess either as completely acceptable. It’s a little vigil I’m holding folks, nothing to see here. Move along.
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:56 PM
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I've been on a personal mission to correct those who insist that they "could care less."
I'm glad I'm not alone.
-MR
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Wed Jun-16-04 02:57 PM
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"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:00 PM
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11. I had a college prof who used to say |
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"We shouldn't take things for granite." I mean, sheesh, this guy had a PhD!
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:26 PM
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27. Was he was a geology teacher? |
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 04:31 PM by tjwash
I had a geology instructor in college that used to say that.
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:03 PM
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12. Saying ethnic cleansing instead of Genocide |
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:58 PM
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41. Actually, there's a real difference |
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Ethnic cleansing = driving people out of their homes or region based on race. Genocide = destroying or killing those people.
It's possible to ethnically cleanse a region without killing a single person.
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Wed Jun-16-04 07:44 PM
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51. It's possible that moof is an Orca with access to a keyboard |
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 07:53 PM by moof
involved in an experiment in inter species communication.
But it is not likely.
Just because people that commit genocide are not able to kill every single person and some of them are able to flee with their lives does mean it is not genocide.
There will be no more response to you unless you are able to show you are being misunderstood or admit you are being either sarcastic, satrical, disengenous or comical.
Otherwise would you care to show what percentage of people have to be murdered from a town of say a thousand genocide victims before it no qualifys as a genocide ?
Cheer up you 501 refugees that escaped being slaughtered and your town being turned to rubble you are not a victims of genocide you are merely ethnically cleansed so quit your whining about the U.N. being mandated to come to your aid.
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Wed Jun-16-04 08:08 PM
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54. Sorry Moof, you're wrong. |
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Genocide: The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group
Ethnic Cleansing: The systematic elimination of an ethnic group or groups from a region or society, as by deportation, forced emigration, or genocide.
There IS a difference between the terms, and it's not just semantics. What the Nazi's did to the Jews was genocide, because they had a plan to eradicate all of the Jews on Earth simply because they were Jewish. Their goal was to eliminate an entire people from existence. What the Hutu's did in Rwanda by trying to exterminate the Tutsi's qualifies as genocide.
In contrast, what the Serbs did in Bosnia is ethnic cleansing. The Serbs weren't trying to exterminate the Muslims, they just wanted them out of "Serbian" lands. They had no plans on destroying the race or religion, they simply wanted to remove them from a specific geographic area. That is what ethnic cleansing is all about.
Now, I'll agree that the terms are often used improperly in the media and that the difference isn't always understood or clear, and even that the terms can overlap (for example, the eradication of the Warsaw Jews was an ethnic cleansing as part of a greater genocide), but that doesn't make the Ethnic Cleansing term any less valid (or the charges that can be brought from it any less valid).
I guess I'm a little confused as to why you dislike the term so much.
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Wed Jun-16-04 08:58 PM
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59. Your unenlightened attempt to explain your stance is noted |
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Also the fact that you did not post any numbers that are widely accepted as the number of murders at which a specific group of people are no longer being ethnically cleansed and are in fact the victims of a genocide.
Instead you offer a vague unlinked definition to the terms of which BTW, "ethnic cleansing" is totally rejected as far as moof is concerned.
It is indeed a matter of semantics. As was suggested in the last part of the previous post the U.N. seems to have a mandate that states that they will never again allow a genocide to take place and just stand by and watch it happen.
That is why the bogus term " ethnic cleansing " exists, it is so the so called world community can refuse to get involved in stopping a genocide and still convince people apparently like you that these leaders sleep well at night knowing their charter has been spit on.
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:08 PM
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13. Yeah, but I could care less what drives you bonkers ;) <eom> |
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 03:09 PM by bleedingedge
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:17 PM
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16. Actually, either can be correct |
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But you have to mean the first ironically. I think even James Kilpatrick has given up on that one. Plus, some things are mangled just for the halibut. :D
I always hate hearing my kids say "I did it on accident."
ON purpose, BY accident (or accidentally)
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:27 PM
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it was originally "Buck Naked" and was said and written that way throughout recent history. Very recently people started saying "Butt Naked" for some odd reason.
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:08 PM
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25. Maybe they're too busy thinking about butts! |
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:47 PM
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20. What about when just about everybody uses "duck" tape.......... |
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for "duct" tape. I think I'm just gonna have to get over that one.
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:57 PM
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22. that t really is too much to ask |
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but since duct tape has been brought up my favorite cliche "if you can't duct it fuck it"
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:06 PM
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23. I've seen rolls of duct tape labeled "duck" tape! |
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:21 PM
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I always wondered if it was just for ducks or good for any water fowl...
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Wed Jun-16-04 03:53 PM
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21. When cool weather in summer |
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is referred to as "Good sleepin' weather" (local pronunciation added). I've lived in the Midwest for ten years and I still don't get that.
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:28 PM
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29. Calling non nook-u-lar weapons "Weapons of Mass Distruction" |
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:42 PM
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30. How about a change of paste? n/t |
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:43 PM
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31. "That really wets my appetite" |
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No no no, it's "whet" as in sharpen, as with a whetstone on a blade.
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:44 PM
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When someone is talking about what someone else said, and they say it like this: "And so Joe said quote unquote 'blah blah blah'."
No. You should say "and so Joe said quote 'blah blah blah' unquote."
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:29 PM
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46. Isn't it quote- endquote? |
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:51 PM
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35. But What If They Actually COULD Care Less?? |
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What if I wanted to indicate that I'm ALMOST at the point where I couldn't care less... I haven't reached that point yet... but I'm fast approaching it.
Therefore, I *could* care less. Right? :hi:
-- Allen
I dislike when people preface a sentence with "Having said that...."
It's totally unnecessary since we probably just heard what you said and we're likely to be intelligent enough to detect for ourselves that the speaker is starting a new subject or that they are willfully contradicting themselves by making an exception of some sort.
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:53 PM
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36. When people write that something, or some group (not a gel) 'gelled.' |
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gel is a noun!
'Jell' is the verb that they are looking for.
Ok, so you can use 'gel' as a verb, but only as it relates to something which becomes a gel!
I second the 'intensive purposes' annoyance. Some people don't think about what they are saying/writing.
Loosers! :)
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:16 PM
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42. Yeah, I'm surprised nobody mentioned 'loose' for 'lose' yet |
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:-) That one annoys me so much, but I tend to see it online more than anywhere else.
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:25 PM
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44. Probably because it's not a cliche, |
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as asked for in the original post. :)
But, having said that....(Ha, I know people hate that)I'd like to mention "Marshall Law" or "court marshall" just because it drives me nuts. :)
MARTIAL
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Wed Jun-16-04 09:37 PM
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61. True, but neither is duct tape. |
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:26 PM
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 05:28 PM by Kipepeo
Similar to loose and lose...I see it EVERYwhere online and it drives me crazy.
edited to add: I know it's not a cliche but it bothers me SO MUCH...I had to post it.
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:54 PM
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37. Music soothes the savage beast. ARRRGGGH!!! |
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An unfortunate misquoting of "Music hath power to sooth the savage breast."
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:55 PM
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38. "Let's go mano a mano...man to man" |
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Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 05:00 PM by stopbush
Poor translation. It should be "hand to hand." Mano is the Italian word for hand.
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:55 PM
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39. I need a ruling: "Row to Hoe" or "road to hoe" |
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Wed Jun-16-04 04:57 PM
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You don't hoe roads. It's a farming reference that dates back to slavery days.
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:32 PM
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47. "No skin off my teeth" |
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Not only is it wrong, it's also creepy. I don't like the idea of people having skin on their teeth.:scared:
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Wed Jun-16-04 08:14 PM
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56. you're right -- the correct phrase is "it's no skin off my _ass_" |
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:34 PM
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instead of School of Hard Knocks
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Wed Jun-16-04 05:42 PM
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50. Correcting DUers for their spelling of M-O-R-A-N |
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Those newbies are so ... so ... 'new'
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Wed Jun-16-04 07:54 PM
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Irks the heck out of me.
You're either "Footing the bill", or looking at something that "Fits the billing". The only thing that fits the bill is the envelope it came in.
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Wed Jun-16-04 08:08 PM
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couch the lie they are fixin' to say, in response to the lie just said by their opponent, with
"the fact of the matter is...."
:grr:
and, please, no one mention "fixin'". thank you.
:-)
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Wed Jun-16-04 08:09 PM
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55. "It's a doggy dog world out there" |
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For dog-eat-dog. Hear it all the time in New England at least.
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Wed Jun-16-04 08:34 PM
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57. "at this point in time" |
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Technically, "moment in time" would be more appropriate -- and the "in time" part would actually be redundant.
One friend of mine gets very irate when she hears "have your cake and eat it too" -- she claims that "eat your cake and have it too" gets the point across much more clearly.
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Wed Jun-16-04 08:58 PM
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58. Is it "toe the line" or "tow the line"? n/t |
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Wed Jun-16-04 09:00 PM
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60. The exception that proves the rule |
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the Latin actually translates to "the exception that tests the rule".
Morans.
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