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#11170 11/29/00 03:53 AM
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>"My God all hemisphere!!" (Don't know if anyone else ever said that!)

...don't think I ever heard that, but I did know someone who said "If that ain't the World's Fair!" when he was exasperated.


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>constipation of the mind and diarrhea of the mouth

this one is fairly common (and gets some google hits!)


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Here are a couple my father uses frequently: That is as useless as balls on a sow (or tits on a bull)

Or one my brother always uses: Hold this while I call a policeman.


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Oooo, maybe someone can explain this one...I don't know him from a hole in the wall (meaning you have no idea who the person is).

and for all ayleurs (sorry Jackie ) who are cuckoo over AWAD, we are all...a few bricks short of a load and the elevator doesn't go to the top. And when the elevator does go to the top, what do we find? Bats in the belfry.


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ayleurs ?? Please elucidate for newcomers. All I could find in OE was something about Grandfather suing because he was dispossessed of some land.
wow


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ayleurs??




Alas! "Ayleur" was derived from Anything You Like Except Unanimous - one of the suggestions given for an appellation fitting for participants here. I liked the sound of it, and its intrinsic paradox, but, there was almost unanimous animus toward the term, and it shrivelled away.


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max, she has a point (and I'm surprised this didn't come up before); ayle is an obsolete word for grandfather!


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max, she has a point (and I'm surprised this didn't come up before); ayle is an obsolete word for grandfather!


Kewl! Does that make an ayleur a really ancient grandfather?


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Check out ayle in Oxford English and it will send you to the var aiel. Then see if you can figure out the definition on one, fast read-thru. Should I post this and take the chace of being the object or ridicule...oh, why not, one must keep one's pals amused! wow


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We use aïeul / aïeule when speaking of our grandfather / grandmother, but usually when singling them out to someone as the eldest of the family (eg. that person over there is the aïeul of our family).


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