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mav--grr.


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alright, already! I'll ed*t th* bl**dy w*rd, w*ll th*t m*k* y** h*pp*?! *EG*


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Yeah, I know "outhouse" is a legitimate word. Perhaps "correct" was too strong a term, but in the context of that particular phrase, in approximately 40 years of my hearing/using it, the polite form has always been used with a touch of the "I'm toning this down" inflexion. Possibly it was originally "outhouse" and got changed by folk of a more robust vocabulary.

I stand by only ever having heard the phrase used in reference to a well-muscled personage, though.


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Very wise you may be, Yoda, but universal your experience is not. The meaning of built like a brick drithouse as synonym for well-muscled, despite its more sense making, have I never heard. For a well proportioned female only have I heard it.

Valued your input is, though.


This is the last time I'll talk like this, honest, guys.

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ROFL Faldage!!

Kill me that you do!!

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mav, ahem--that grr was for your sentence in white...


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Kill me that you do!!

To AnnaStrophic am I pledged.

OK, so lie I did.


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You have to remember that I've been stuck in a shack on Dagobah for the last twenty years.

BTW, I don't do the fractured grammar, or the Fozzie Bear voice. I was given this nickname by members of another forum, and I decided to use it whenever I could.


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mav, agree with you I do.
(or ought I to say instead, *gr** w*th y** I d*)


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[blue](or ought I to say instead, *gr** w*th y** I d*)[/blue]

Or, better *gr** w*th y** * d*





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