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Old 03-27-2014, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Originally Posted by Rubi3 View Post
" I have never visited the school I was hired to teach at."
When growing up I worked at a Drugstore, can you say that anymore, and my boss would go nuts when you said: Where's it at?

His response: Right before the at!

42 years later, I still remember.

 
Old 03-27-2014, 02:43 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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What am he's name?

He di-ent say.
 
Old 03-27-2014, 03:51 PM
 
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He di-ent say.
But...did you axe him?

 
Old 03-27-2014, 03:57 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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But...did you axe him?
"Alas poor Yorick!"
 
Old 03-27-2014, 08:52 PM
 
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"Pit bulls were bread for attacking and to kill."


Yum, anyone hungry for pit bull bread?
 
Old 03-28-2014, 04:08 AM
 
Location: Florida
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If you eat a pit bull sandwich would you start attacking and killing?
 
Old 03-28-2014, 04:18 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Originally Posted by Copanut View Post
When growing up I worked at a Drugstore, can you say that anymore, and my boss would go nuts when you said: Where's it at?

His response: Right before the at!

42 years later, I still remember.
My early lesson that stuck with me all these years is the joke about the Harvard student and ending a sentence with a preposition. I'm sure you all know some version of that one.
 
Old 03-28-2014, 05:39 AM
 
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From the NJ forum:

Booton Township witch has low taxes next to Mountain Lakes and Kinnelon not Booton there are two of them is not a dump! Its quite but not a dump.

Aside from the more obvious misspellings, lack of punctuation, and generally incomprehensible nature of this run-on sentence, the township which he is extolling is spelled Boonton, not "Booton". He thinks that it is not a dump and likes that it is quiet (or "quite"...something), but he cannot spell the name of the municipality that he is recommending to others.

 
Old 03-28-2014, 05:47 AM
 
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One thing I can't stand for in Italian is seeing the verb "sparare" used wrongly:
Sparare means primarily "to shoot,fire" like: "Ha sparato con la pistola"= "He has shot/fired with his gun"
Now, to say "He has been shot" many people in Italy say "Lui è stato sparato" which basically means "he has been shot with a gun/cannon etc" because that verb in Italian can't be reversed so easily.
You must say "Gli hanno sparato" (i.e. He was shoot at,literally).
 
Old 03-28-2014, 06:32 AM
 
Location: Florida
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How well would you do financially in a "Start treck economy."?
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