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Old 08-14-2014, 10:51 AM
 
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Old 08-19-2014, 08:32 PM
 
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Old 08-20-2014, 08:06 AM
 
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Thought for the day!

It is always good to try to 'use your head for something else besides a hat rack'...;-)....
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Old 08-20-2014, 08:10 AM
 
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And this is around but I never heard anyone say it in my life!

'Jumpin' Jehosaphat!'
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:17 AM
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just for $***s and giggles
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Old 08-20-2014, 06:33 PM
 
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Old 08-26-2014, 07:37 AM
 
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Old 08-27-2014, 12:44 PM
 
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when speaking about an unwelcome or even potentially harmful person entering into any sort of personal gathering, like your workplace, or a community group, or class, or whatever:

"Into the garden a serpent did come."
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Old 08-30-2014, 03:42 PM
 
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Old 08-31-2014, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Hombre_Corriendo View Post
when speaking about an unwelcome or even potentially harmful person entering into any sort of personal gathering, like your workplace, or a community group, or class, or whatever:

"Into the garden a serpent did come."
The shoe may really be on the other foot. The "serpent" might be an innocent person entering a room of hateful judgmental types.
In other words he or she is having to step into a pit of vipers.

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Originally Posted by artemis agrotera View Post
Bugalugs
I had to look that one up. Maybe kin to the saying cute as a bug's ear.

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/questio...3010608AAbIB6o

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