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| 434.1 | And then there was... | RICKS::PHIPPS | Digital Internal Use Only | Tue Nov 17 1987 12:20 | 10 |
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BC: Guess what! We've invented a filtering system for outhouses using crushed
stone.
From across the sea:
Like I was telling Mildred the other day, those guys over there have rocks in
their heads.
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| 434.2 | more phrase turning | TERZA::ZANE | unique to one, common to all | Wed Feb 03 1988 19:04 | 4 |
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In reply to the title of this note, I had a high school teacher who
was fond of saying, "Excuse me for talking while you interrupt."
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| 434.3 | Don't ask me how... | BRSADG::VANDENEEDE | Raf Van den Eede @BRO | Thu Feb 04 1988 10:36 | 9 |
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Which reminds me of my English linguistics professor, who always
said he 'could *see* many absent people' in the auditorium
(had good eyes!), and of another thing you can hear people say
sometimes around here:
"do you mind if I eat while you're smoking?"
Rvde.
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| 434.4 | | AKOV11::BOYAJIAN | $50 never killed anybody | Sat Feb 06 1988 13:44 | 15 |
| re: "seeing absent people"
This reminds me of a song called "Talking Nothin' Blues", the
first verse of which goes:
"I looked up the hall to the top of the stairs,
Didn't see a man who wasn't there.
He was spreadin' some nothing all over the wall,
A whole lotta nothin', nothin' at all.
'Twas a predominance of vacancy.
That's about all there was...or wasn't."
I love the phrase "a predominance of vacancy".
--- jerry
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| 434.5 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Many hands make bytes work | Thu Apr 07 1988 22:47 | 8 |
| Children often have an interesting turn of phrase ...
My eldest daughter when she was two came out with the following
one night when we turned out her bedroom light ...
"Turn the light on Dad, I can't see my eyes."
Stuart
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| 434.6 | This was many years ago... | AKOV11::BOYAJIAN | That was Zen, this is Tao | Fri Apr 08 1988 11:04 | 5 |
| I suppose many children eventually get around to using this one,
but one of my nephews, in response to a stern "Behave!" from his
mother, came out with, "I'm being have!"
--- jerry
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| 434.7 | y | WAGON::SWINIARSKI | NANcy--*NANSKI*--SwiniarSKI | Fri Apr 08 1988 20:51 | 18 |
| My niece was two 1/2 the first time I took her
to the zoo. In anticipation of what we were to see
she described to me what a Giraffe looked like.
He has a long neck, wears high heels and two pony tails
on his head.
I couldn't wait to get to the zoo, check out a giraffe
and maybe make sense of what she was talking about.
And you know, she was right. They have "high-heel" hoofs,
the neck was obvious, and they have little horns that look
fuzzy pony tails sticking up straight on there heads.
I guess children know more than we sometimes give them credit for.
"Nanski"
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| 434.8 | this coin rings true | MARKER::KALLIS | Why is everyone getting uptight? | Fri Apr 08 1988 22:19 | 7 |
| When we were dissolving some coloring tablets in vinegar prior to
coloring some Easter eggs, they made a rather loud noise that my
wife dubbed "sizzing." It _did_ sound like a cross between fizzing
and sizzling. I have added the word to my informal vocabulary.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 434.9 | Blunt as a Bucket | JANUS::CROWLE | On a clear disk you can seek forever | Mon Apr 11 1988 13:11 | 4 |
| ... was my favourite from the kids (when they were about 8 years
old).
-- brian
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| 434.10 | Out of the mouths of Babes etc.. | HAMPS::HILL | Nick Hill - UK Corp. Actts | Mon Apr 11 1988 15:31 | 1 |
| Daddy, you're not fat. You just need to be taller.
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| 434.11 | | GNUVAX::BOBBITT | modem butterfly | Mon Apr 11 1988 23:04 | 8 |
| I heard one this weekend from a good friend - in reference to various
visual effects seen in modern art, and various styles of music or
trains of thought....sounds enough like "Freudian" to give it that
oomph of acceptability...
"Floydian"
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| 434.12 | ...or perhaps an Oriental pronunciation? | SLTERO::KENAH | My journey begins with my first step | Fri Apr 22 1988 19:05 | 3 |
| re -1: Does "Floydian" refer to Pink or Uncle?
andrew
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| 434.13 | | DTIF::RUST | | Fri Dec 06 1991 07:58 | 12 |
| Saw this in "Shoe" recently:
projectile honesty
[The usage in the strip was as the behavior of the guilty parties in
"Perry Mason," who, when confronted by Perry at the end of the trial,
would jump up and confess. Often, they'd confess to more things than
Perry actually had on them, as if, once they'd started talking, they
couldn't stop. Personally, I can think of a few other situations where
"projectile honesty" might come into play... ;-)]
-b
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