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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

704.0. "Those who do" by CHEFS::BUXTON () Tue Aug 08 1989 14:18

    I was browsing through HUMAN::DIGITAL at note 883 which discusses
    drug testing at work!  Many of the replies used the expression:
    
    "...I don't do drugs..."
    
    Is the use of the word 'do' instead of 'use' confined solely to
    drugs or are there other US usages like:
    
    I don't do the bathroom
    I don't do alcohol
    I don't do busses
    I don't do <insert activity>
    
    Where, when and how did this form of expression begin? What are
    the true origins?
    
    Bucko...who don't do VMS much...
T.RTitleUserPersonal
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704.1does this count??? WMOIS::M_KOWALEWICZToday&#039;s special! (tomorrow is too)Tue Aug 08 1989 14:213

	I don't do         windows
704.2Yes, but....IJSAPL::ELSENAARFractal of the universeTue Aug 08 1989 14:268
RE -1

>                    -< does this count???                  >-
>     I don't do       windows
                   ^^^^
Only if you meant "DEC-" in here.
;-)
Arie
704.3I do, I don'tTLE::RANDALLliving on another planetTue Aug 08 1989 15:205
    I've read that lots of Hollywood types do lunch.  
    
    I don't know whether that implies that they also do other things.
    
    --bonnie
704.4I have been known toSAC::WHITAKER_AThe man from HullTue Aug 08 1989 20:176
    
    Lots of Chef type people do lunch.
    
    							Andy
704.5Nobody can do the boogalooSHALOT::ANDERSONGive me a U, give me a T...Mon Aug 14 1989 23:523
	. . . like I do

		-- Cliff
704.6TKOV51::DIAMONDThis note is illegal tender.Tue Jun 26 1990 10:423
    Those who don't do, ...
    
    teach.
704.7!HEART::MACHINTue Jun 26 1990 13:555
    RE .-1
    
    Hey! I can learn a lot from this man!
    
    Richard.
704.8!!UILA::WHORLOWD R A B C = action planWed Jun 27 1990 09:1115
    G'day,
    
     Those who can't teach
    
    
    teach teachers
    
    Those that can't teach teachers...
    
    
    Profess
    
    djw
    
    ;-)