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Old 06-11-2014, 11:21 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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That possessive for plural drives me bonkers - it's rampant where I live.
Yes, it's the pit's.

 
Old 06-11-2014, 11:24 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Shouldn't this thread be renamed to I can't take it no more?
 
Old 06-11-2014, 11:50 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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Shouldn't this thread be renamed to I can't take it no more?
Over five hundred pages and you think that hasn't been mentioned .
 
Old 06-12-2014, 12:21 AM
 
Location: San Francisco
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^
It may well have been. And perhaps some apparent wag has already pointed out the same.

Last edited by modernist1; 06-12-2014 at 12:29 AM..
 
Old 06-12-2014, 01:09 AM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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...perhaps some apparent wag has already pointed out the same.
Nice come-back - you're quite the witty one. No flies on you.
 
Old 06-12-2014, 05:14 AM
 
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The three phrases in quotes are the extracted posts. "Third time's..." is commentary.
Whoops!
Now I see it.

Luckily, I can admit a mistake...unlike one or two of the folks in this forum...

 
Old 06-12-2014, 05:36 AM
 
Location: USA
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Nice come-back - you're quite the witty one. No flies on you.
In the Australian Bush, many stockmen attach corks with strings to the brim of their hats which tangle in their face keeping flies away. That's where the expression 'no flies on him' came from. There are so many flies in Australia, sometimes they are referred to as the national bird.
 
Old 06-12-2014, 06:16 AM
 
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From the okie thread:

"Pot is an evil drug. The kids just need a lot of prayer and doctering."

I guess he means like the video below shows! Some kids DO need doctering!




Roping and doctering a calf - YouTube
 
Old 06-12-2014, 06:54 AM
 
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In today's Dear Heloise column, a woman complains about a recent purchase. She states that she wanted towels that are "all cotton", but that she was dismayed to see that the label on her most recently-purchased towels reveals them to be "100% cotton and 100% algodon".

In her response, Heloise explains that "algodon" is simply the Spanish word for cotton, and--diplomatically--she doesn't mention the woman's mathematical impairment.

 
Old 06-12-2014, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Chanute, KS
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From a comment on AOL today:

"My sediments exactly"
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