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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 11:35:37 GMT
The tireless tongues of those women give rise to all sorts of speculation.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 11, 2011 17:37:48 GMT
I had to look twice to see that #180 was from kerouac, not onlyMark! ;D
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Post by onlymark on Mar 11, 2011 18:28:30 GMT
He has a filthy mind does that kerouac bloke.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 13, 2011 2:39:38 GMT
Is "speculation" a dirty word?
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Post by Kimby on Mar 22, 2011 20:12:20 GMT
no, I believe you mean "speculum" bixa. And that IS a dirty word.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2011 3:24:03 GMT
hee hee ~~ missed seeing this before.
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Post by foreverman on Mar 29, 2011 6:59:07 GMT
I thought SPECULUM was an alloy of two thirds copper and one third tin used for making mirrors
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2011 7:27:34 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Mar 29, 2011 9:05:05 GMT
Latin has a lot to answer for.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 30, 2011 0:27:38 GMT
Quo vadis with that statement?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2011 18:49:39 GMT
I know that coddling is not the best thing to do in terms of childcare, but additionally, mollycoddling appears to be even worse. Who was this awful Molly person who took it all a step too far?
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 31, 2011 20:00:30 GMT
My dog's called Molly....
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Post by onlymark on Aug 31, 2011 20:29:14 GMT
Mine's called Coddling.........
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2011 1:40:08 GMT
If mine had had a codpiece, he probably wouldn't be missing now.
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 28, 2011 9:12:04 GMT
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Post by frenchmystiquetour on Sept 28, 2011 14:04:45 GMT
I'm arriving late to this thread dadgummit!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2011 6:45:27 GMT
"Running around like a chicken with its head cut off" -- can somebody attest to this phenomenon?
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Post by onlymark on Nov 3, 2011 12:56:31 GMT
Yes and no. In several countries I've gone to a stall where there are live chickens and selected one. It's had it's head chopped off but then immediately put in large plastic barrel where it continues to thrash around for a while. I can easily imagine it running around.
I tend to use 'running around like a blue arsed fly' though.
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Post by lola on Nov 4, 2011 3:22:22 GMT
I keep thinking I'd like to raise chickens, but when I get to imagining myself chopping off their little heads my courage fails.
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 5, 2011 15:23:55 GMT
To really lower the tone, my mother would have said "in and out like a fart in a colander".
PS: We shall have to call onlyMark "JimmyCrackCorn".
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Post by onlymark on Nov 5, 2011 20:58:03 GMT
......and I don't care.
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Post by spindrift on Nov 17, 2011 18:01:43 GMT
lola - you can raise chickens. Don't kill them, just enjoy their eggs. And when it comes to killing a hen you should pull their necks instead of chopping their heads off. It requires practice though. I could never do it.
I have a friend who is squeamish about slaughtering his hens/cocks since they are mostly special breeds and have become his friends...so he takes the easy way out and uses his shotgun. That's not right!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2011 18:19:11 GMT
I don't think I would ever eat an animal to which I had given a name.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 18, 2011 7:50:37 GMT
I used to have a girlfriend who was the owner of a secondary school 'cafetaria'. She would kill about 10 chooks every night by just slitting their throats then letting them go. Her son had to go out later and collect them wherever they dropped dead.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2011 8:22:44 GMT
What a lovely image.
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Post by mich64 on Nov 18, 2011 16:49:59 GMT
I am almost certain I have used that expression. Mich
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Post by tod2 on Nov 21, 2011 11:02:27 GMT
Oh yes Kerouac - I can attest to witnessing many chickens being led to the proverbial chopping block and not flinching one iota when the axe fell. That I guess was because at a young age curiosity got way ahead of squeamishness ;D Nowadays I could no more look at a chicken being decapitated than fly. My aunt developed an aversion to meat simply because her older sister ( my mother) used to chase her around the yard with a chicken head in fury at being left to disembowel the chicken as well
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Post by foreverman on Dec 8, 2011 12:54:59 GMT
I tend to use 'running around like a blue arsed fly' though. Could this be the fly in question............its got a blue arse...lol
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2011 20:08:37 GMT
Kicking the bucket
I looked it up and apparently the origin is somewhat mysterious. One possibility refers to a method of hanging oneself, and that is easy to picture.
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Post by onlymark on Dec 23, 2011 16:06:28 GMT
"Running around like a chicken with its head cut off" -- can somebody attest to this phenomenon? Mike, the headless chicken, lived for a further 18 months - miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.php
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