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ood Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

But for the election of Scott Brown, conservatives would continue to be entombed in a alough of despair, but now there are green shoots of hope.

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No pushing at the door please!

1 posted on 02/01/2010 5:43:52 AM PST by xsmommy
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2 posted on 02/01/2010 5:44:17 AM PST by NeoCaveman (usually clean, often articulate, only a slight Cro-Magnon accent except when I want to have one)
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To: mikrofon; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; sig226; IAGreywolf; Conspiracy Guy; Laura Earl; ...

class in session/.


3 posted on 02/01/2010 5:45:07 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

pssst. teacher, I don’t see a pronunciation key and the word isn’t in your example.


6 posted on 02/01/2010 5:46:08 AM PST by NeoCaveman (usually clean, often articulate, only a slight Cro-Magnon accent except when I want to have one)
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Driving through the slough from the weekend snowstorm here in Va Beach and Norfolk is less a test in capability and more a test in patience and focus.


9 posted on 02/01/2010 5:50:32 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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So is it pronounced sloo or sloff?


16 posted on 02/01/2010 6:08:31 AM PST by secret garden (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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While working in the fields trying to make some dough, the farmer coughed, and, thus distracted, drove his plough into a slough.

Ah, the wonders of English pronunciation...

17 posted on 02/01/2010 6:08:51 AM PST by SAJ
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Rex Ryan, attending a MMA event in Miami, tells Dolphins fans to slough off...
26 posted on 02/01/2010 6:17:54 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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Responsibilities, he tries to slough
But now he’s acting all rough and tough
I will “fight for the people”
(Turn them back in to sheeple)
Hey, Barry, enough is enough


28 posted on 02/01/2010 6:19:15 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Kenya tell me where Obama was born?)
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To: xsmommy

Also means a break in an underwater sand bar at the beach They are the place to surf fish.


30 posted on 02/01/2010 6:19:30 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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yankees awake to sanity
and demonic inanity

lay claim upon their liberty
and slough at last the kennedys


32 posted on 02/01/2010 6:23:43 AM PST by tsomer
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Media blabbermouths cannot continue to spew the slough about terrorist trials while ignoring the facts.
36 posted on 02/01/2010 6:29:24 AM PST by secret garden (Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.)
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yankees awake to sanity
reject demonic inanity

lay claim again to liberty
and slough at last the kennedys


43 posted on 02/01/2010 6:39:21 AM PST by tsomer
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Slough by John Betjeman

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.

And get that man with double chin
Who'll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women's tears:

And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad,
They've tasted Hell.

It's not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It's not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead.

In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.

Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.

45 posted on 02/01/2010 6:55:16 AM PST by SoothingDave
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What about Slough, the moderately unattractive town in Southern England? Only claim to fame that I know of: it was the setting for the UK (original) version of the TV show ‘The Office’.


56 posted on 02/01/2010 7:22:21 AM PST by Zajko
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We are SOOOO looking forward to sloughing off the dirtbags in November..and the even BIGGER one in 2012!


62 posted on 02/01/2010 7:57:34 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-George Orwell)
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c. G Schlauch skin, bag

See also Nancy Pelosi
LOL
64 posted on 02/01/2010 7:59:06 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-George Orwell)
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Jeb Bush may have governed the sloughs in Florida reasonably well, but that doesn't mean he's presidential material.
70 posted on 02/01/2010 9:35:28 AM PST by VRWCmember
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This is scary. Sweden is turning into a slough pile:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441482/posts


78 posted on 02/01/2010 3:10:47 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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Slough of Despond as seen from Skinner's Bluff near Wiarton in Ontario, Canada ...

80 posted on 02/01/2010 5:24:10 PM PST by kanawa
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