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  1. UroTrash

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    #1 UroTrash, Mar 30, 2006
    I worry.

    I worry about a lot of things.

    I worry that we are losing words.

    You know, words that have developed a slang meaning can hardly be used in conversation any more with their REAL meaning.

    It's a crying shame.

    To lose good words.

    So, I decided to do something about it, to use them as they SHOULD be used.

    To save the English language.

    So yesterday, I see this lady in the neighborhood who walks her dog every day with her little boy and baby girl.

    So she's walking with the kid but no dog or baby.

    So I say with a smile: "Well where's the little b**ch today?"


    You would have thought I had asked to see her hooters, although she has no owls.

    In the following awkward moment I thought I should fill the pregnant pause with something so I mentioned her son's red shirt made him look quite gay!

    Things got worse at that point.

    Thank God I didn't ask about her sister's p**sy.
     
  2. 134282

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    #2 134282, Mar 30, 2006
    LMAO...!!! You realize you spelled "lose" and "losing" wrong, right...? :)
     
  3. UroTrash

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    #3 UroTrash, Mar 30, 2006
    I have trouble with that, I'll fix it.
     
  4. ylshih

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    #4 ylshih, Mar 30, 2006
    Or that ***gots should be put to the fire.
     
  5. MrApex

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    #5 MrApex, Mar 30, 2006
    Good thing she doesn't walk with an oversized donkey.

    I doubt a comment on her giant a55 would have gone over well.
     
  6. quartermaster

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    #6 quartermaster, Mar 30, 2006
    !!!!!!!!!!
     
  7. wax

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    #7 wax, Mar 30, 2006
    Though it's a soundalike, this somewhat qualifies - If you should casually mention you're simply using words lost in the din - some may think you're talking about somehow finding words in a room & may even go so far as to go home and look under their couch cushions.
     
  8. ylshih

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    #8 ylshih, Mar 30, 2006
    "What fool hath added water to the sea,
    Or brought a ***got to bright-burning Troy?"
    William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, scene III
     
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    #9 wax, Mar 30, 2006
    Troy should see a doctor about that. Say...
     
  10. quartermaster

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    #10 quartermaster, Mar 30, 2006
    I yield, for lacking good reference and suitable memory, I am alone.
    (Quartermaster, intoxicated moment, FChat, 2006)

    Yin, you've long impressed me! That's no 'bull' (hope you take this in the honesty & good humor it is meant because I sincerely wish my pitiful education was greater than it is--I'm woefully 'blue-collar')
    K
     
  11. ylshih

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    #11 ylshih, Mar 30, 2006
    That and $3 will get me a cup of Starbucks coffee :D. Lot of good folks on this site, and they all bring something unique, which is why I think I hang out here. Other sites are boring and one-dimensional in comparison.
     
  12. RacerX_GTO

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    #12 RacerX_GTO, Mar 30, 2006
    Alright, I'll take a stab at it :D



    Good catch Josh! That was just my best attempt ;)
     
  13. 0UTXLR8

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    #13 0UTXLR8, Mar 30, 2006
    sentence not sentance :)
     
  14. brim

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    #14 brim, Mar 30, 2006

    Good stuff, Yim. You continue to impress.

    Additionally, you never make grammatical nor syntactical errors in your posts. Impressive!
     
  15. Sfumato

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    #15 Sfumato, Mar 30, 2006
    This sentence no verb.
    Toothless men impacted by decisions of dentists.
     
  16. UroTrash

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    #16 UroTrash, Mar 30, 2006

    Poetic license, that.
     
  17. brim

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    #17 brim, Mar 31, 2006

    Can't argue with either of those statements.
     
  18. ashsimmonds

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    #18 ashsimmonds, Mar 31, 2006
    a sentence with a pregnant pause shouldn't have a contraction.
     
  19. 134282

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    #19 134282, Mar 31, 2006
    Beautiful...!
     

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