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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8017
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 4:24 pm: |    |
""Broad daylight"
Is there any other kind?"
narrow daylight?
can light be broad or narrow? I guess full spectrum light would be broad, a single color narrow? |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 15723
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 4:31 pm: | |
Surprise, surprise...a correction for Rb. Broad daylight refers to the absence of shade, out in the open. Shade would narrow the daylight. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 8996
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 4:41 pm: | |
Does that mean broad daylight only exists at noon during the summer solstice? Wait, there would still be shade directly under things like trees. |
Sstashmoo
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Username: Sstashmoo
Post Number: 2802
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 6:32 pm: | |
I think the "Broad daylight" may come from a broadly lit sky, unlike it is at sun up or sun down? |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 2879
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 9:22 pm: | |
This matter doesn't have anything to do with when "The View" airs, does it? |
Lefty2
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Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 2741
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 9:25 pm: | |
Fair and equal, By people in the media who think things are. |
Ccbatson
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Username: Ccbatson
Post Number: 15733
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 - 11:35 pm: | |
Broad daylight is meant to refer to things being out in the open, plain to see, etc. |
Bongman
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Username: Bongman
Post Number: 1626
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 9:50 am: | |
Kinda like a skirt blowing in a warm summer breeze.  |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 1698
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 10:26 am: | |
I like to see the end to anything at all that I spew forth. It is such a waste of everyone’s time to read it, and a waste of my time to spew it.
Remember: Two wrongs aren’t right, and two lefts is backwards. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 325
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 7:30 pm: | |
confusion between appraised and apprised
I attended a meeting this afternoon at which the speaker promised to keep us appraised of upcoming events.
(Message edited by Crystal on November 01, 2008) |
Yaktown
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Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 393
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2008 - 7:54 pm: | |
"Senseless tragedy." By their very nature, all tragedies are senseless, no? I have yet to witness a tragedy that actually made sense.
/channeling Carlin |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 4820
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 03, 2008 - 10:29 am: | |
"changed out"
Why can't you just say "changed"? |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3537
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, November 03, 2008 - 10:38 am: | |
I, too, am opposed to the addition of superfluous prepositions. "Changed out" or "served up" or "offered up" or stuff like that. Sigh. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 1048
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 03, 2008 - 10:45 am: | |
To folks that say "towards" & "in regards"; kindly leave the unnecessary & incorrect "s" at home |
Wash_man
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Username: Wash_man
Post Number: 1025
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 12:48 pm: | |
Joe the Plumber |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3549
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 12:57 pm: | |
"many a"
Jesus Christ, just freakin' say "many"! |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 1057
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 1:10 pm: | |
By the way...Joe the Plumber just called; he wants his crack back |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8039
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 3:37 pm: | |
"Surprise, surprise...a correction for Rb. Broad daylight refers to the absence of shade, out in the open. Shade would narrow the daylight."
actually,bats, it is an idiom that doesn't exactly derive it's meaning from the words. you were showing how humor-challenged you are. I was presenting the absurd literalist interpretation. in the Am. Heritage dictionary of idioms, it is simply an abundance of daylight. I think it would be ok to say "he robbed me in broad daylight" even if you were under an awning at the time |
Ccbatson
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Post Number: 15808
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 4:54 pm: | |
Gotcha...again Rb. |
Lnfant
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Post Number: 174
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:23 pm: | |
"not to be a jerk…" <followed by jerkhood |
Lnfant
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Username: Lnfant
Post Number: 175
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:26 pm: | |
"doggone it" <wtf? |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3572
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:30 pm: | |
Lnfant: Sounds like a way to avoid saying g-d damnit. I'm sure some Elizabethan dude felt the same way about "Zounds!" |
Lnfant
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Username: Lnfant
Post Number: 176
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:33 pm: | |
you betcha |
Johnlodge
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Post Number: 9042
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:34 pm: | |
Bring back "Zounds", I say. Also poppycock and balderdash. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3573
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:39 pm: | |
Nincompoop! |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9044
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:49 pm: | |
Egads and Gadzooks! Rapscallions all! |
Lnfant
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Username: Lnfant
Post Number: 177
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 3:52 pm: | |
voilah! |
Jimaz
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Post Number: 6810
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 8:07 pm: | |
I'd like to see the word "swanky" come back into vogue. I think the last time I heard it used was in an episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. or maybe Laverne and Shirley.
At that time it seemed to be used exclusively by unswanky people.
Yes, I myself am striving for greater unswankiness. |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 6811
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 8:13 pm: | |
From Mrs. Byrnes's Dictionary:quote:verbicide n. word murder; mangling or perverting a word. |
Diane12163
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Username: Diane12163
Post Number: 433
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 - 10:28 pm: | |
Word: Normal (Nothing is normal by anyone's standard of it for anyone else)
Phrase: Open box and retrieve instructions. (Duh to the 1000th power!) |