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- Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:06 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: 'like' and 'as'
- Replies: 32
- Views: 73215
I think Mark said something about chasing after one of the bunch in search of some potassium, but he's been around. It's good to hear again from our a- peal -ing Southern Belle! :lol: I send many thanks to all the worm welcome-backs-ers from atop my sweet Georgia pine tree. Peach pie anyone? :wink:...
- Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:59 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: 'like' and 'as'
- Replies: 32
- Views: 73215
- Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:11 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: 'like' and 'as'
- Replies: 32
- Views: 73215
Well, that's one back from the silents. Welcome back, Huny. Though I don't know you from earlier, I've seen your posts many a time, and you've been quiescent for some time. Now all we have to do is get some of the other old-timers, Agora-post-wise speaking, to pipe up. BTW, you might want to check ...
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:57 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: 'like' and 'as'
- Replies: 32
- Views: 73215
- Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:19 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: 'like' and 'as'
- Replies: 32
- Views: 73215
I fear we may have frightened off Kathleen in Norway. I hope not. Maybe she's Thor at us for being neither helpful Norse erious. Hope she's not afjord to come back... Ah, the usual serenade of sluggo and skinem! :lol: Music to my slowly rotting mind. For I am not afjord of the erudition, quality an...
- Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Hey Y'all, is Southern Drawl Spreading?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 101142
Yes, she does. And I have her Dad who also has 1 blue eye. I have a three year old that has a blue left eye. Her momma is a red and her papa was a double dapple with two blue eyes and is deaf as a log. She has spots down her back all the way to the tip of her tail. Other than that, she is all red. ...
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Hey Y'all, is Southern Drawl Spreading?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 101142
By the way, scw, does that weenie dog in your avatar have a blue eye? There is a reason I ask... :wink: Huny Yes, she does. And I have her Dad who also has 1 blue eye. I have a three year old that has a blue left eye. Her momma is a red and her papa was a double dapple with two blue eyes and is dea...
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:25 am
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Hey Y'all, is Southern Drawl Spreading?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 101142
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:22 am
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Hey Y'all, is Southern Drawl Spreading?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 101142
Re: Hey Y'all, is Southern Drawl Spreading?
Someone sent me an article by that name and I thought you might like to read it... Article Link I was particularly taken by the following sentence... "Northerners still make fun of Southern speech," says Dennis Preston, a linguist at Michigan State University in East Lansing. "To the...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:43 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Olio
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4389
My mother has often used this word throughout my life. While always understanding what it meant, I thought it rather old fashioned. But she was the boss so whatever Mom said I would just bite my tongue and nod in agreement like the good obedient child that I was for fear she would make liver for din...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:33 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: DIFFIDENCE
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9135
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:13 pm
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: Bad Word of the Day
- Replies: 3
- Views: 31017
Re: Bad Word of the Day
Please be sure to make manual payments moving forward"[/color] History: I've been hearing this maybe six months. I hope it moves backward. Does this mean you have to be in a forward moving motion like walking, jogging ,or even an all out trot or run in order the meet their payment requirements...
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:35 am
- Forum: Idioms
- Topic: Bad Word of the Day
- Replies: 3
- Views: 31017
Re: Bad Word of the Day
Please be sure to make manual payments moving forward"[/color] History: I've been hearing this maybe six months. I hope it moves backward. Does this mean you have to be in a forward moving motion like walking, jogging ,or even an all out trot or run in order the meet their payment requirements...
- Wed May 09, 2007 12:32 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: NAUSEOUS
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8102
I once became very nauseated when one of my customer's daughter barfed on the floor right in front of me. That led to an embarrassing chain of events that ultimately ended in the janitor's having to clean up two piles of tossed cookies. :oops: To this day it is still hard to look him in the eye. (I ...
- Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:46 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: new tool definitions
- Replies: 33
- Views: 67052
Speaking of tools. How about the leaf blower. All they seem to be good for is blowing the leafs off your driveway/sidewalk after you have mowed the lawn to right back where they started from...the lawn. Not to mention they contribute to getting that buggery little speck of God-knows-what lodged unde...