 
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8310
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2009 - 10:23 am: |    |
I love how local news always tries to find even the most tenuous connection to the local area.
that whole "this story has local ties" crap should also be eliminated
"this local couple once downloaded a picture of the hotel in Mumbai. What is your reaction to the story?" |
Islandman
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Username: Islandman
Post Number: 1829
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 16, 2009 - 12:06 pm: | |
Live on CNN yesterday-
Reporter: "What was the landing like?"
Passenger: "Scary as shit!"
No beeps were in evidence. Thanks CNN! |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 359
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2009 - 6:28 pm: | |
palpable |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9167
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2009 - 6:34 pm: | |
"untold numbers"
How many is that? Nobody knows, nobody will say? A number so large, it has never been uttered by one individual to another? |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3369
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2009 - 6:51 pm: | |
I love when people use "palpable" or, better yet, "tangible" to describe intangible things. (But I cry when the dictionary changes the meaning to reflect the new idiotic currency, effectively killing a word's true meaning.) |
Thames
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Username: Thames
Post Number: 354
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2009 - 7:19 pm: | |
"Please leave a message after the tone, I'll call you back at *my* earliest convenience." |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 360
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2009 - 9:32 pm: | |
literally. As in "It was literally raining cats and dogs."
If it were raining cats and dogs, that would sure the heck be palpable!
I've probably submitted "literally" before on this thread. Maybe more than once. I hear it on the television or radio and get annoyed all over again. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 1476
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 8:46 pm: | |
"neocon"
(unless you're referring to a looming prison sentence) |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3379
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 10:59 am: | |
"I was so hungover my head was literally exploding."
I'd pay to see that.  |
Papermoon
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Username: Papermoon
Post Number: 89
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2009 - 3:09 pm: | |
"gifting" and "re-gifting". Makes my hair stand on end.
"See what I'm saying?" tacked on the end of every sentence.
Sticking "if you will" into a sentence, but not the metaphor that goes with it.
Using a past perfect tense instead of a simple past tense. |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 363
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 6:28 am: | |
in no uncertain terms
well played
(Message edited by Crystal on January 24, 2009) |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 4903
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 24, 2009 - 9:53 am: | |
Something I have seen posted on this site a few times: "Such and such is concerning."
Sorry, that's not English as I know it. |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 3031
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 3:52 pm: | |
"Fire in the hole!"
Women don't say shit like this alla time. Over-use of dumb-ass terms like this one persuade me to believe that some guys never grow out of the macho thrill provided by the childhood game of Playing Army. Ironically, getting older, and even having been in the real Army, seems to make it worse. |
Cheddar_bob
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Username: Cheddar_bob
Post Number: 1678
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 4:33 pm: | |
People abreviating "all of the" to "alla". |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8384
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 4:36 pm: | |
"made with REAL INGREDIENTS!"
no, for MY money nothing beats a nice imaginary bowl of soup |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 3035
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 4:46 pm: | |
Fronk off, Cheddar! Dang! I try to relax, a bit, from my usual anal-retentive formality & stiffness, and here you come...
First the initials guy from across the street, and now this...
I'm going to follow the blueprint provided by some other folks and fire up a thread wherein I bitch, moan, wail and gnash my teeth over how some of you are nothing but a bunch of trolling meanies. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3447
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 5:14 pm: | |
"efforting" |
Detroit_stylin
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Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3595
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 5:30 pm: | |
LOL rb.... |
Crystal
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Username: Crystal
Post Number: 376
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 - 9:33 pm: | |
I listen to traffic and weather on the 8's on WWJ AM 950. Dave Bowers does a fine job, but he leaves at least two syllables out of the word, meteorologist. He calls himself "mee-tuh-RAH-lis Dave Bowers".
Yes, I know it's a small thing, but it's painful to hear. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3449
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 10:52 am: | |
"armed gunman"
"terrible tragedy"
"stupid fool" |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 8413
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 10:59 am: | |
"armed gunman"
you'll be sorry when you get held up by someone holding a gun with his toes |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3450
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 11:01 am: | |
Haha. Would that be a "footpad"? |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 3055
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 1:26 pm: | |
D'nerd's submissions to our list remind me of the old George Carlin line, featuring George as a newscaster: "Another senseless murder today, as police discovered the body of Irving Senseless lying in his hallway." |
Bongman
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Username: Bongman
Post Number: 686
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 12:54 pm: | |
"Transparency"
Whenever I here this word, It's a signal that the subject matter at hand will be as cloudy as my bong....especially if it concerns economics. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 9372
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 1:00 pm: | |
"In this economy" |
Sstashmoo
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Username: Sstashmoo
Post Number: 3280
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 1:11 pm: | |
"Asshat"
Why not "Buttglove" or something equally stupid? |
Cheddar_bob
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Username: Cheddar_bob
Post Number: 1724
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 4:41 pm: | |
Looks like someone doesn't know the meaning and genesis of the term "asshat". |
Mackenzie68
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Username: Mackenzie68
Post Number: 82
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 5:30 pm: | |
Could you use ccbatson and asshat in a sentence, please?
That might help me with the meaning. |
Sstashmoo
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Username: Sstashmoo
Post Number: 3290
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 9:31 pm: | |
Quote: "Looks like someone doesn't know the meaning and genesis of the term "asshat"""
No, I sure don't. I am sure it makes me a better person to not know. |
Cheddar_bob
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Username: Cheddar_bob
Post Number: 1725
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:13 pm: | |
Yeah, the quest for knowledge is not really your thing. |