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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:38 pm
by Brazilian dude
No, just more familiarity with the words of a firebrand of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, and the ultimate line of his most famous speech.
I thought the original words were Give me liberty or give me death!

Brazilian dude

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:55 pm
by Stargzer
No, just more familiarity with the words of a firebrand of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, and the ultimate line of his most famous speech.
I thought the original words were Give me liberty or give me death!

Brazilian dude
. . . the words of a firebrand of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, and the ultimate line of his most famous speech.
"Use the Force, I mean, the Link, Luke!"

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:24 pm
by Brazilian dude
Funny you said Luke. A lot of American friends of mine call me Looch.

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira, para servi-lo e protegĂȘ-lo.

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:25 pm
by Brazilian dude
I know, I know, you're talking about Luke Skywalker. I'm not that ignorant, sheesh.

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:53 pm
by Stargzer
Isn't Loch Looch a lake in Scotland?

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:54 pm
by Stargzer
Better than Olive, anyway . . . :)

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:59 pm
by Stargzer
. . . and Ledo is already taken, L E d O . . .

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:47 am
by Perry
Give me uberty or give me dearth?

-Tim
Why not have both. I have a dearth of uberty. :?

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:18 pm
by Palewriter
Funny you said Luke. A lot of American friends of mine call me Looch.

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira, para servi-lo e protegĂȘ-lo.
Perhaps they mean "louche"? :D

-- PW [ducks]

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:27 am
by gailr
Thanks for going there, PW!
And don't let him tell you he doesn't know squat about this.
-gailr

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:17 pm
by Stargzer
Louche morals?

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:24 pm
by Bailey
I was just sure BD had two eyes, here I go again assuming cranial parts on others come in pairs.

mark

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:30 pm
by Brazilian dude
As a matter of fact, I have four eyes.

Brazilian dude

Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:58 pm
by Bailey
I was just sure BD had two eyes, here I go again assuming cranial parts on others come in pairs.

mark
As a matter of fact, I have four eyes.

Brazilian dude
did you hear that whiring? that was the sound of the looche's roots going over.

mark
louche (lsh)
adj.
Of questionable taste or morality; decadent: "The rebuilt [Moscow hotel] is home to the flashy, louche Western disco Manhattan Express" Liesl Schillinger.



[French, from Old French losche, squint-eyed, feminine of lois, from Latin luscus, blind in one eye.]

Uberty or dearth

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 10:38 pm
by digitaldunes
I have always maintained, "Give me lottery or give me dearth" and have become accustomed to the latter.