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Old 08-07-2013, 03:05 PM
 
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Saw this in a C-D forum where someone asked about relocating.

"elaborate more on the details so we can better asses your situation"
Hmmm...Perhaps they got a little behind in their payments.




 
Old 08-07-2013, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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...Perhaps they got a little behind in their payments...
Are you being cheeky?
 
Old 08-07-2013, 04:53 PM
 
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Are you being cheeky?

...or, am I just being a bum (as they say in England)?

 
Old 08-07-2013, 07:59 PM
 
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Hmmm...Perhaps they got a little behind in their payments.



This conversation reminds me of one of my favorites. Several times I have heard the expression, "In the rear" as in, "My bank account is in the rear" or "I have to pay the cable bill because it is in the rear."

(in arrears)
 
Old 08-08-2013, 06:04 AM
 
Location: S.E. US
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This conversation reminds me of one of my favorites. Several times I have heard the expression, "In the rear" as in, "My bank account is in the rear" or "I have to pay the cable bill because it is in the rear."

(in arrears)
If the bill is at the bottom of the pile to be paid last, it's definitely "in the rear".
 
Old 08-08-2013, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Like me, I imagine that you too have occasionally been called a Grammar Nazi.

Not me. In fact, I usually skip searching for the apostrophe on the keyboard, (which is way out in Terra Incognita, somewhere beyond the essential and indispensable semicolon) and dont mind skipping apostrophes, since I wouldn;t wouldn[t want to mistype it, so I deal with Apostrophe Nazis.

I doubt if I have used a semicolon yet this year, and probably never used one last year, but there it is, with equal prominence to the letter A on my keyboard.
 
Old 08-09-2013, 10:02 AM
 
Location: Richardson, TX
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Not me. In fact, I usually skip searching for the apostrophe on the keyboard, (which is way out in Terra Incognita, somewhere beyond the essential and indispensable semicolon) and dont mind skipping apostrophes, since I wouldn;t wouldn[t want to mistype it, so I deal with Apostrophe Nazis.

I doubt if I have used a semicolon yet this year, and probably never used one last year, but there it is, with equal prominence to the letter A on my keyboard.
Are you getting soft in your old age?
 
Old 08-09-2013, 04:22 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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CD thread title:

Dreams of deseased loved ones
 
Old 08-09-2013, 04:38 PM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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Dreams of deseased loved ones
Oh dear. At first it looked like diseased and that's not a very pleasant thought.
 
Old 08-10-2013, 11:28 AM
 
Location: central Oregon
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talking about the mysterious priest:

"I think its a hoaks."




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