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[Ladyazh]

I just saw someone's sig that sounded like Tracy's.
Here it is:

Do not trifle with wizards, for it makes them soggy and hard to light.


Is this from the same treasure box do you think? Is this some way of saying things that have a definition? Please, elaborate if anyone will.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

-> Where's the joke in snuv's post?

"There's no place like home for the holidays"

It was, indeed, a groaner.

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[Trevoke]

Very capillotracted.

"That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX."
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[AnotherHiggins]

-> capillotracted

wha???

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[Trevoke]

neologism made from latin roots.
"Pulled by the hair" ...
Oh, I guess that doesn't make sense in english
"Pulled by the hair" is a french expression which means "You went far to get that one" or something similar. It's not obvious.. far-reaching relationship, and the such.
Sorry

"That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX."
"Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive."
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[KenCunningham]

No matter that it's lost in translation, Trevoke, your explanation seems to imply the British/American 'went the extra yard' if my understanding is correct? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the misunderstanding - entirely possible I admit!

I don't mind people who aren't what they seem. I just wish they'd make their mind up.

 

[Trevoke]

I catch very well the irony of using an expression to explain another one.. Do you?
When you say "Went the extra yard..." ?

I was just saying that it seemed to me that the pun was stretching the limits of the language, no?

"That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX."
"Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive."
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[gbaughma]

Speaking of yards.....

I once heard that the phrase "The whole nine yards" was a reference to the ammunition belt feeding a machine gun was 9 yards (27 feet) long... so, when he was out of ammunition, it was said "he went the whole nine yards".

This page

http://www.yaelf.com/nineyards.shtml

Has some good information, but doesn't give a definitive answer about the origins of the phrase.



Just my 2¢

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[Lunatic]

gbaughma

According to several History Channel shows, it does deal with WWII military aircraft. I thought it was the length of the ammo belts for side gunners on the B-25 bombers but others attribute it to fighter planes (such as the Spitfire).

I think its pretty safe to say it origionates from WWII combat.

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Here's another WWII nugget... most fighter planes had only 30 seconds or so of ammunition... Not much room for error.
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[ascotta]

I actually invented one, many years ago I believe.


"Freckles, no they are not freckles they are a pigment of your imagination"

Ta-da, and bows.

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[Welshbird]

Much like racial predjudice....
Ha.

Fee

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[ascotta]

Exactly.

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[SilentAiche]

...or, er, facial prejudice...?

Tim

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[donbott]

ascotta says he made it up, but I think it came from the Acne Joke Company

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[CorBlimeyLimey]

Anybody know the b]Zit[/b] Code for the Acne Joke Company?

[Cheers]

 

[SantaMufasa]

<into the weeds>

Anybody know the Zit Code for the Acne Joke Company?

Yes, I believe that Ah-cu-'tane it fer ya': their office is squeezed next door to Whitehead, Blackhead, and Sebaceous, LLC.


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[ascotta]

A

http://wwwww,

and I thought I had invented it, I think I was 12 at the time. Well spotted SantaMufasa, makes the blodd Boil

It was actually cos I have rather a lot of freckles, and I was getting a bit ticked off with others pointing out "How many freckles I had"

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[SilentAiche]

[green] the freckle heckler was juiced being, er, cheeky. Facial prejudice, and all that.[/green]

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[ascotta]

This has to stop too, it brings back painful memories of being a pimply plooky faced ginger haired person who was vertically challenged until I left school.

Geez I didn't have a lot going for me did I ?

Never mind I made up for it with my charm, sophistication and repartee. (Or at least thats what my mother said!!)

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[MeGustaXL]

vertically challenged until I left school

Excellent! I was V-C in school, but I still am, at 55! What happened to you on the day you left school to increase your stature?

Chris

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[KenCunningham]

Never been particularly v-c, but have certainly been follically challenged since my early 20s.

I don't mind people who aren't what they seem. I just wish they'd make their mind up.