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Old 06-02-2014, 10:07 AM
 
Location: The analog world
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I need to hang out here more often. You all appear so much more rational than the typical C-D poster. It's such a nice change of pace from the daily crazy here on the forums.

 
Old 06-02-2014, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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The automotive forum is the mother lode for these kinds of things:

Does "tailgator" count as an eggcorn? I like it!
 
Old 06-02-2014, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Chanute, KS
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...and inevitability their will be the screaming child...late showing of a movie with him(11:30 pm) and walla the crying/screaming child... you can insist the child be removed as it wasn't sapose to be allowed in.
 
Old 06-02-2014, 02:46 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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My response in that thread had to do with the fact that, while the OP is defending the honor of his favorite make of car, he is unable to spell its name correctly. Shouldn't this ardent owner of several Volkswagens realize that the nameplates on the bodies of his cars do not say "Volkswagon"?
Hmm... yet there was a Volkswagen Vanagon .
 
Old 06-02-2014, 03:12 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Does "tailgator" count as an eggcorn? I like it!
Only in places like Florida
 
Old 06-02-2014, 03:13 PM
 
Location: The analog world
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...and inevitability their will be the screaming child...late showing of a movie with him(11:30 pm) and walla the crying/screaming child... you can insist the child be removed as it wasn't sapose to be allowed in.
Walla cracks me up! Those who do not know French should not use French.
 
Old 06-02-2014, 04:01 PM
 
Location: USA
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"Satin has firm grip of persons thinking it is wrong and a crime."

Sometimes Satan is smooth and slick.
 
Old 06-02-2014, 04:55 PM
 
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I need to hang out here more often. You all appear so much more rational than the typical C-D poster. It's such a nice change of pace from the daily crazy here on the forums.

...or as a woman whom I knew many years ago used to say, "It's a nice change of paste!"

I agree that the folks who frequent this forum are...less incendiary in nature...than the people in many of the other forums.

 
Old 06-02-2014, 05:07 PM
 
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I once had a couple of booths at an antique mall whose clueless manager consistently termed our wares "merchendise". After receiving a letter in which he referred to my "merchendise" twice, I decided it was time to leave.

Haven't regretted it!
 
Old 06-02-2014, 05:09 PM
 
Location: The analog world
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I personally love "collectables." I don't need any more tables.
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