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Old 10-31-2014, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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"We are on needles and pins".
What is your question about "needles and pins", sometimes also "pins and needles"? It is used for nervous anticipation.

 
Old 10-31-2014, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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""...Earth has become a dust bowel..."

Too much fiber?
 
Old 10-31-2014, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Southern MN
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Originally Posted by Retriever View Post
In a very obvious attempt at advertising in one of CD's forums, somebody who apparently runs a moving company stated that he/she meets the following needs:

Local!
Long Distance!
Short Hall!


So...I guess that if I have a long hallway in my home, I shouldn't call them...

I'm not sure why but for some reason that ad makes me feel very excited.

About the dust bowel - last year a Mexican expat forum I use advertised that they were having a Super Bowel party on the beach. Guess everybody must have brought bean dip.
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:13 PM
 
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What is your question about "needles and pins", sometimes also "pins and needles"? It is used for nervous anticipation.
I always heard it "... on pins and needles", not needles and pins. But whatever. It's all good.
 
Old 10-31-2014, 05:52 PM
 
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On Craigslist (no connection with my user name):

"Lookin for a chicken coupe."

Bet those chicks look pretty cool behind the wheel...
 
Old 10-31-2014, 06:49 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Default Chicken coupe?

An Old 1970s Police Car Transformed Into A Chicken Coop | Decor Advisor
 
Old 10-31-2014, 08:15 PM
 
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by _redbird_ View Post
I always heard it "... on pins and needles", not needles and pins. But whatever. It's all good.
Never ever, in my l o n g life have I heard "needles and pins." To say or hear it in that reversed way would be exceedingly awkward. It reminds me of a Cockney rhyme of some sort: Needles and pins, to swayback jinns.
 
Old 11-01-2014, 07:18 AM
 
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Never ever, in my l o n g life have I heard "needles and pins." To say or hear it in that reversed way would be exceedingly awkward. It reminds me of a Cockney rhyme of some sort: Needles and pins, to swayback jinns.
"Pins and needles, needles and pins,
When a man marries, his troubles begins"

(Don't blame me - it's a traditional rhyme!)

There was also a popular song back in the early '60s, with the chorus,
"Needles and pins-ah..."

I can't remember who sang it - male, British, perhaps - or the rest of the lyrics.
 
Old 11-01-2014, 07:23 AM
 
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"its a recipie for disaster"

 
Old 11-01-2014, 07:59 AM
 
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"Pins and needles, needles and pins,
When a man marries, his troubles begins"

(Don't blame me - it's a traditional rhyme!)

There was also a popular song back in the early '60s, with the chorus,
"Needles and pins-ah..."

I can't remember who sang it - male, British, perhaps - or the rest of the lyrics.
Aha! The Searchers, Reba McIntire, The Ramones... co-authored by Sonny Bono... courtesy of Google. So far as the rhyme... my experience is the direct opposite. I married twice and failed to notice the word T R O U B L E stamped in large letters across the top of each license.

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