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Phrases that like really bug us all, basically
The Telegraph ^
| 5/29/2007
| Johanna Leggatt
Posted on 05/29/2007 2:17:17 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
I hate when I hear that some action is “wrongheaded”. Isn’t it just “wrong”? I guess I hate it so much because liberals are usually the ones to say it, and they just p*ss me off!
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:16:41 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: bruinbirdman
"Save BIG..."(printed advertising and commericals)
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:18:30 AM PDT
by
two23
To: LucyJo
Ending sentences with prepositions is something with which I simply will not put. After all, language is not something around with which to fool.
To: LucyJo
Ending sentences with prepositions, This fellow agreed with you...
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. -Sir Winston Churchill
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:20:14 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
(Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
To: Red Boots
My son took a Spanish class last Spring. On the syllabus, the teacher had written, " First we will take a placement test, so I can find out where each student is at." Oh, that must have boosted his confidence about the Spanish lessons!!
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:21:34 AM PDT
by
LucyJo
To: CholeraJoe
Me luv you long time, GI.Or, as the local children used to tell me after I crossed sh*t river in Olongapo and pulled them all down the street with false promises of pesos, "You just another Joe".
And you all wondered where I got my screen name. :^)
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:23:42 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: bruinbirdman
Hey, like, she goes, hey dude, like, I like totally, like know that like dude.
To: bruinbirdman
Many of you shared frustrations over the misuse of "forensic" OK, somebody help me out -- what on Earth is this referring to?
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:27:42 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
To: bruinbirdman
I hate when people ask me to “show them the ropes”. I don’t know where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:31:22 AM PDT
by
Cymbaline
(I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
To: bruinbirdman
Someone told me yesterday that I was “stuck on stupid”. That was great the day the general said it but it quickly became trite.
My other pet peeve is for a news reader to say “after he raped and murdered Girl Scout Troop #33, the “GENTELMAN” was apprehended on 1st street”.
THE MONSTER IS NOT A *GENTELMAN*, YOU STUPID NEWS READER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry about the yelling but I always yell at the TV when I hear that.
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05/29/2007 6:33:07 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: GretchenM
When I was a youngster, and doing dictionary exercises, we were never allowed to define a word by using the root of the word, or any form of the word in the definition. For example, we could not use important to define importantly.We must have gone to the same school. Were you allowed to say, "(Word to be defined) is where," or "(Word to be defined) is when"?
Each of those phrasings was prohibited, along with using the root of the word to be defined in the definition.
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:33:08 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: All
The saying that bugs me most occurs when i’m shopping, looking at some item and a saleslady comes over and says “that’s our most popular (purse) this year”.
Big turn off. This says they’ve judged me as someone that would want the same purse that everyone else has.
Altho my daughter, who used to work in retail says that is what they tell you to say when you see a customer looking at something.
To: Silly
“No problem,” seems to be the new, “You’re welcome.”
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:34:15 AM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: Savage Beast
A "suspect" broke into the house, raped the women, killed the men, tore the place up and burned it down. Victims say they can identify the "gentleman" who did it all. Yes!..., and, I have the same reaction when the word "lady" is misused.
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:34:44 AM PDT
by
LucyJo
To: gitmo
Sum(n)=n/2(A1+An) Any system that won't take THAT as a password needs to be reprogrammed!
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:35:51 AM PDT
by
Cymbaline
(I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
To: bruinbirdman
Armed gunman (as opposed to an unarmed gunman)
Hot water heater
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:36:17 AM PDT
by
LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
To: bruinbirdman
To: Ditter
Ditto the ‘stuck on stupid’. Catch phrases like that one should come with an expiration date.
To: WKB
Actually, we say "I think we oughta" I'm fixin' ta
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:42:00 AM PDT
by
Cymbaline
(I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
To: OldEagle
“”At this point in time. Means the EXACT SAME THING as At this time yet takes longer to say.”
The fleeting quality of time means that by the time you say At this time it is already another time.”
....actually, TIME is just nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once...!!!
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