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Old 11-16-2009, 06:04 PM
 
Location: 39 20' 59"N / 75 30' 53"W
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Seinfeld is great for terms and sayings. I like this one from Kramer: "Jimmy-legs."
I still watch the the reruns and crack up.
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Old 11-16-2009, 07:27 PM
 
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Cognitive dissonance

An embarrassment of riches

Superfluous

Evanescent

Kerfuffle

Ameliorate

Zaftig

Oconomowoc

Though this be madness, there is yet method in’t.

And one that I don't think has made it into Webster's but that I still love and often use when speaking of Wisconsin's weather:

Disimprove
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Old 11-16-2009, 08:24 PM
 
Location: On the dark side of the Moon
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Buxom, or buxom wench

Shoot the Moon!-Hass anyone ever played the game?
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Old 11-16-2009, 08:27 PM
 
Location: 39 20' 59"N / 75 30' 53"W
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Midwesternbookworm

I've heard the expression

" Theres method to his madness" (same meaning I suppose)
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Old 11-16-2009, 08:46 PM
 
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Midwesternbookworm

I've heard the expression

"There's method to his madness" (same meaning I suppose)
Unquestionably - I was quoting (almost) the original line from the second act of Hamlet, though I mis-remembered the placement of "yet." Polonius says of Hamlet, "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."

Shakespeare has given us so many phrases and images that have migrated into our day-to-day lexicon, even all these centuries later. And they're often among the most vivid and evocative bits of language in English.
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Old 11-16-2009, 09:57 PM
 
Location: Limbo
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Hackneyed
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Old 11-16-2009, 10:20 PM
 
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Snarky
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Old 11-16-2009, 10:24 PM
 
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gobbledygook
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Old 11-16-2009, 10:44 PM
 
Location: On the dark side of the Moon
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Juicy
Juicyfruit

Breakfast for dinner

Crush that fly

Ineluctable
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Old 11-17-2009, 05:12 AM
 
Location: Lancashire, England
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Shoot the Moon!-Has anyone ever played the game?
No but I have an LP titled 'Shoot the Moon'

ear bashing

same to you with brass knobs on
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