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1 posted on 09/08/2014 6:29:29 AM PDT by PeteePie
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None

I come from them largely

And they made Caroline Stanbury

They rock..


152 posted on 09/08/2014 2:29:28 PM PDT by wardaddy (Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
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My pet peeve is peevish people practicing prejudice per perverse personal prohibition.

Oh, and alliteration.


153 posted on 09/08/2014 2:47:04 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (Islam delenda est)
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proactive


157 posted on 09/08/2014 4:20:08 PM PDT by pilipo (GOP=Gutless Old Party)
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Colleges of Nursing all over America are responsible for “orientating”, “orientated”. Drives me crazy.


160 posted on 09/08/2014 5:17:00 PM PDT by az wildkitten (8 years 'til I retire)
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I know I’m late to the thread, but my own top pet peeve is the misuse of the phrase “beg the question”. It does not simply mean to raise or call for a question. The meaning is to reason from a point which has been assumed, not proven. Too many people have heard the phrase somewhere, and think they’ll sound all intellectual by using it, but have no idea of its actual meaning.

(Oh, and another peeve is putting an apostrophe in the possessive of “it”.)


170 posted on 09/09/2014 8:17:42 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Maybe I was out that day, but what is a “price point”?


175 posted on 09/10/2014 6:12:54 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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One that really irks me and gets my ire up is when the pimple-faced cashier says, “that’s gonna be $9.40”. I always want to say, “that’s fine, but I want to know what it is NOW!”


176 posted on 09/10/2014 6:21:00 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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