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I love it when a plan comes together.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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Ha! Admittedly, I know more lyrics to the Weird Al version.
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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What's mildly irritating you today?
Gout. In my right big toe.
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#6709 |
Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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Maximum sympathy brother.
I actually thought I broke my toe... In my sleep (sleep walking and kicking big rocks with my bare sleeping feet???)
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#6710 |
I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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I changed out the leader hose on my hose reel, and somehow shredded my right thumb and first two fingers although I can't figure out how, couldn't find any sharp bits. Son had to come help, h emerged unscathed. My skin is thin but....
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#6711 |
Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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What happened to ed?
I have noticed that the final syllable 'ed' seems to have disappeared from a number of words.
I have seen examples such as: I am not bias. He is vex. They are prejudice. The Bucks Free Press, not a noted journal of record, included the headline 'Woman who text police officer to offer him drugs is jailed...' Last but not least is 'use' as in 'I use to go'. I do not profess papal infallibility when it comes to the use of English, either spoken or written, but atleast I try to get it right and am successful alot of the time.
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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I think that maybe an element of patois creeping in via the youthdem
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Notice all of those words end in an S sound ("text" technically ends in a T, but I'd argue the T sound already disappeared in deference to the S sound before it a while ago.)
Anything hard to pronounce gets weeded out of language like a bad evolutionary mutation. I once did narration on an educational program with fractions, and was told to stop clearly pronouncing the words because the kids wouldn't understand. So it was "sikss" for "sixths," "fiths" for "fifths," etc. "Fourths" was already replaced everywhere with "quarters," which I found oddly infuriating. |
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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Quote:
Just my 25c worth.
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#6715 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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I see what you did there.
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#6716 |
I love it when a plan comes together.
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 9,793
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To play off of putting in one's two cents, one could also represent a quarter by saying: Just my two bits worth.
(e.g. Shave and a haircut, two bits.) |
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#6717 |
I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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we don't want to hear about your two bits.
It was very weird to move here and hearing people use "one fourth" or "three fourths" instead of quarters. Like stepping back in time. (Then I realized that was the least of my worries in that respect). I still won't do it. I'll even use "gotten" sometimes but I haven't sunk to saying fourth instead of quarter. Yet.
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#6718 |
The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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But, four quarters don't make a whole.
Four quarters makes a dollar. ![]()
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#6719 |
I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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Four Quarters make a Hole if you leave them in your pocket long enough.
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#6720 |
I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Perpetual Chaos
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Things that sting when you have multiple tiny but bloody lacerations on your fingers and thumb:
chips/crisps a COVID quality soapy hand wash chopping onions sunblock citronella oil for torches
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