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mojo84 wrote:"Batman license" Used by those that are afraid to assist another human being that is in trouble and those that want to demean the ones that are willing to assist.
At times, it comes across as cowards criticizing heros for doing the right thing.
WildBill wrote:?? Practicing?? I thought you were already a professional.Abraham wrote:hillfighter,
Of course, I'm often irritated, it's part of my job as a practicing curmudgeon.
Now, get off my lawn!
I always respond "Freddy Krueger".Javier730 wrote:I dont like when someone calls my cell and says "Whos this?". When someones calls me and asks that I immediately hang up and will not answer any calls from that number.
And why did she bring it to church?ginzu wrote:What was the widow doing with that?
WildBill wrote:No, you MAY NOT axe me.
If you try, I will shoot you.
It's happened at a number of places. They no longer ask "How is everything?" I guess they don't want to open the door to complaints of any nature other than the food.WildBill wrote:Where do you go out to eat?jmra wrote:When you're at a restaurant and you are asked "How's everything tastin".
I "here" ya!Selina Kyle wrote:Oh brother!!! Loljmra wrote:Mine "to".WildBill wrote:That is one of my pet peeves ...Selina Kyle wrote:Drives me crazy when people write loose instead of lose...
Mine "to".WildBill wrote:That is one of my pet peeves ...Selina Kyle wrote:Drives me crazy when people write loose instead of lose...
It never fails that my brother will redirect my finger when I'm talking about a place and point in the wrong direction (which is every time I point).MasterOfNone wrote:But if you think of a horizontal plane tangent to Earth at your present location, everywhere else on Earth is down.txglock21 wrote:Everytime my wife ask if I want to go "down" to her dad's I cringe. We live in Texas, he lives in Oklahoma. Last time I looked at a map, Oklahoma was above Texas.
Maybe this will helpWildBill wrote:Elderly!
Elderly Woman Shoots Man Through the Door.
Cops Shoot Elderly Man with Walking Stick.
How old does one have to be before considered to be "Elderly"?
I do know, I feel you, bro.Beiruty wrote:Each fourth word, ...."You know ...."
and
"do you feel me, bro"
The Annoyed Man wrote:I think you mean a preposition, not a dangling participle. It reminds me of the joke about a Texas country boy who heads off to college at Harvard. On his first day of school, while trying to find his way around campus, he accosts an upperclassman and asks him, "Say pard, can you please tell me where the library's at?" The upperclassman looks down his nose at the young bumpkin and says, condescendingly, "Young man, this Hahvahd Univussaty; and at Hahvahd Univussaty, we do not end owah sentences with a preposition!"TLE2 wrote:Decimate means to kill 10%, not all: the proper word would be annihilate.
My pet peeve is the dangling participle: "Let's go to the place we last went to"
My mom was an English major, so I was born into the word Nazi brigade.
The young Texan replies, "Oh! Please forgive me! Say, can you tell me where the library's at, butthead?"
Two phrases that kids use at school that really get to me:Songbird wrote:I was administering one of those lovely state tests to a class of 8th graders several years ago. It was a writing test. They were allowed to use dictionaries. A student raised his hand and said "I'm looking for the word "tookin" and I can't find it.
I hate that.tbrown wrote:For Sell
