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  1. #341
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    Quote Originally Posted by JStuart View Post
    My current least favorite phrase is, You must spread some Comments around before commenting on jimsumner again.

    JStuart, who can't believe were into the second half of the year, and 6 months from today is New Years.
    How about we're 18 months away from the third decade of the millennium?

  2. #342
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    obstreperous
    [redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.

  3. #343
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    curmudgeon
    [redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.

  4. #344
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    Quote Originally Posted by devildeac View Post
    curmudgeon
    Hey!!

    I resemble that remark.

  5. #345
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    Quote Originally Posted by camion View Post
    Hey!!

    I resemble that remark.
    As much as my avatar?

    [redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.

  6. #346
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    Quote Originally Posted by devildeac View Post
    obstreperous
    Kylia Carter?

  7. #347
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    Quote Originally Posted by Billy Dat View Post
    Kylia Carter?
    (whistles softly, leaves room)
    [redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.

  8. #348
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    In belated observation of Canada Day, a few Canadian terms I like:

    Zed (the letter Z)
    Hoser
    Molson Muscle (beer belly)

    I also like the term queue which is used in the US but is more common elsewhere.

  9. #349
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    Quote Originally Posted by CrazyNotCrazie View Post
    In belated observation of Canada Day, a few Canadian terms I like:

    Zed (the letter Z)
    Hoser
    Molson Muscle (beer belly)

    I also like the term queue which is used in the US but is more common elsewhere.
    I'll add to that:

    Washroom

    Eager Beaver

    Homo Milk

    Loonie and Toonie

  10. #350
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    Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Quote Originally Posted by mattman91 View Post
    I'll add to that:

    Washroom

    Eager Beaver

    Homo Milk

    Loonie and Toonie
    Toque

  11. #351
    Quote Originally Posted by Billy Dat View Post
    KC?
    Claptrap

  12. #352
    Quote Originally Posted by CrazyNotCrazie View Post
    In belated observation of Canada Day, a few Canadian terms I like:

    Zed (the letter Z)
    Hoser
    Molson Muscle (beer belly)

    I also like the term queue which is used in the US but is more common elsewhere.
    I’d like to add...”Ceasar”....my Sunday morning favorite...Thanks Canada

  13. #353
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    A word that is frequently misused is "enormity". For some reason, it bothers me when I see that.

  14. #354

    Yiddish, cont'd

    In the hate the thing*, love the word** department: schmaltz

    *- when the thing refers to excessive sentimentality, not chicken fat (who doesn't love chicken fat?)
    ** - because the word punctures quickly and well

    Saw used well here: http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/tr...ounter-clerks/

  15. #355
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    Hoodoo (see World Cup 2018 thread).

    Edit: Just so I can stick a song in your head for the rest of the day, courtesy of Chuck Berry:

    I'm gonna give you thirty days to get back home
    I done called up the gypsy woman on the telephone
    She gonna send out a world wide hoodoo
    That'll be the very thing that'll suit you
    I'm gonna see that you be back home in thirty days

    Extra bonus: It's also a geologic rock formation, like what you see in Bryce Canyon.
    Last edited by dudog84; 07-08-2018 at 09:23 AM.

  16. #356
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    WRT hoodoo and voodoo, it's my understanding that hoodoo is the bad kind. I think people often get that wrong.

  17. #357
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    I really like the work pique.

    It's fun to say.
    You can have a fit of pique.
    Something can pique your interest.

    A question for the more literary knowledegable on the board...I've been seeing "peaked my interest" a lot lately, and from supposedly educated people. Is this now acceptable? It's clearly not a typo, or the product of hurried typing (which I sometimes give people the benefit of the doubt for when they screw up their/they're, for example...but no excuse for screwing up 'there' in that combo).

  18. #358
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    Quote Originally Posted by dudog84 View Post
    I really like the work pique.

    It's fun to say.
    You can have a fit of pique.
    Something can pique your interest.

    A question for the more literary knowledegable on the board...I've been seeing "peaked my interest" a lot lately, and from supposedly educated people. Is this now acceptable? It's clearly not a typo, or the product of hurried typing (which I sometimes give people the benefit of the doubt for when they screw up their/they're, for example...but no excuse for screwing up 'there' in that combo).
    I think it a simple mistake, as opposed to creeping acceptance of an alternative homophone.

  19. #359
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    Greenville, SC
    I frequently order the chicken chimichanga at the local tex-mex restaurant for one reason.

    I like saying chicken chimichanga.

  20. #360
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    Raleigh, NC
    Quote Originally Posted by OldPhiKap View Post
    I think it a simple mistake, as opposed to creeping acceptance of an alternative homophone.
    I think your write. Its what their doing.

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