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Old 01-06-2014, 05:42 AM
 
Location: Florida
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"Things change when you become an old dodger."
Here's one that lends itself to a lot of quips.

 
Old 01-06-2014, 07:12 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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Originally Posted by jtur88 View Post
You still need a verb. "Was missing" implies a completely different chronology, and "became missing" is clumsy and pretentious-sounding. How would you rewrite "the went missing during the snowstorm"? "Turned up missing"?
I'd say "disappeared".
 
Old 01-06-2014, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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They disappeared during the snowstorm.
I should have read ahead!

But seriously--we did just FINE until about ten years or so ago without having "went missing" or "gone missing" in our vocabulary.

Another winner in the made up words and phrases list is "doable". "Feasible" was a perfectly good word.
 
Old 01-06-2014, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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"Things change when you become an old dodger."
Here's one that lends itself to a lot of quips.

Sandy Koufax?
 
Old 01-06-2014, 10:19 AM
 
Location: USA
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The op of the following sentence would probably wonder how her fingers missed the correct keys. Often, when rereading a post I made in earlier days. I'm surprised by what was not written or was added by a gremlin.


"My wedding took place in 83 all the sleeves tended to be long, off the shoulder was fawned on if it was a wedding held in a church."
 
Old 01-06-2014, 04:38 PM
 
Location: Southern New Hampshire
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From a thread about whether people eat dinner at the table:

Quote:
Most of the time it is just wife and myself sitting in the living room. Company we will eat at the table,of course.
Company, YUMMY!
 
Old 01-07-2014, 12:01 PM
 
Location: Florida
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"What can I say? Lots of pityful hositily about this subject:"

What can I say isn't the question. It's "what can I write?"
 
Old 01-07-2014, 01:13 PM
 
Location: central Oregon
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I just found this in a post full of whammys. This one was too good not to share.


"Yep, many of these people are diluted into thinking they are the "job creators" "

I was chuckling until I got to "diluted" people... Then I roared!
 
Old 01-07-2014, 02:29 PM
 
Location: The Hall of Justice
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"i'm not going to say it again, but i want to reiterate that ..."
 
Old 01-07-2014, 03:12 PM
 
Location: USA
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I just found this in a post full of whammys. This one was too good not to share.


"Yep, many of these people are diluted into thinking they are the "job creators" "

I was chuckling until I got to "diluted" people... Then I roared!
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