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RE: Is this offensive?
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Quote "...I am thinking in the hundreds, but I don't know...." Of course, we're all guessing but I ......
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January 14, 2005 14:19
RE: Perchlorate
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I thought that perchlorate (like oxide or sulphate or any other of these compound designators) could......
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January 14, 2005 02:16
RE: Is this offensive?
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I wonder just how many complaints is "lots"....
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January 13, 2005 15:47
RE: Pumping for information
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Quote "...What are high-heeled shoes called them?..." They are called (and wait for this)...high he......
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January 09, 2005 12:15
RE: Decolletage -- a careful investigation
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I find I tend rather to look down on women with lowcut dresses....
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January 09, 2005 07:26
RE: Pumping for information
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At school I called them plimsolls....
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January 09, 2005 07:25
RE: bed clothing
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I probably use the term more often than I use the garment - and that is even more true of pyjamas!...
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January 09, 2005 03:13
RE: Where out of this World
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"Erewhon" by Samuel Butler, 1871 Erewhon is "nowhere" reversed and this work is a satire about a fu......
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January 08, 2005 14:21
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I was wrong about futons. I had thought the word was a synonym for duvet in the USA (it's not used h......
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January 08, 2005 02:07
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Quote "...Should I start a pole???..." If you wish. We have nothing against Eastern Europeans here....
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January 07, 2005 09:53
The Oxford comma
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A question was recently raised on OEDILF about the use of the Oxford comma (a comma before a conjunc......
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January 07, 2005 01:31
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Quote "...Just skin to sleep in.... never! How unprotected!!! ..." Is this a US thing, maybe? Altho......
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January 06, 2005 23:54
RE: European Babel
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This is one reason why many citizens of the UK don't want to be in the EU. It is a profligate and in......
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January 06, 2005 09:00
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Quote "...What do you Brits call your pajamas or nightgowns?..." We call our pajamas, pyjamas....
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January 06, 2005 01:20
RE: "Neck"
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Thinking back over a lot of years I seem to recall that necking was the name we lads gave to what on......
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January 05, 2005 08:35
RE: ONLIEST
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The "onliest", like the "very unique", does not and cannot exist as a sensible descriptor....
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January 05, 2005 01:25
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My COED says: Brit. Slang. 1. Sink a ship (or its crew) 2. Defeat or ruin (a plan etc) 3. Kill. 19t......
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January 04, 2005 10:00
RE: Ambition
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Scupper means "to deliberately sink a vessel". And I do, I agree, mention Cuba on occasions to my A......
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January 04, 2005 03:30
RE: Cosmology
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Maybe they want to regulate the universe. After all, it's so inconvenient in many ways right now - r......
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January 04, 2005 03:18
RE: To coin a phrase
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Quote, "...Jerry, I think the concern was that "these people" meant that I was separating them from ......
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