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Originally Posted By: jenny jennybut I am most offended when someone calls me a redneck except another redneck. Originally Posted By: FaldageWhen some outsider calls us one of those words it's an insult; when one of our own calls us that it's camar
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Not really. To we who are rednecks the denomination "redneck" is a badge of honor. No matter who assigns us "rednecks" - yankee or otherwise - we sing out our superiority. We are both black and white; being rednecks keeps us humble and full of grit
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it also might be what word would the "sophisticated" use, as opposed to a word that "normal" or "rough" people might use. Polite company and all that... pip pip.
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Originally Posted By: Rhubarb CommandoI guess it depends upon context, to some extent, Branny. It could be offensive or arrogant, I spose. But it is certainly impolite and might well be a little bit rude or offensive. It could be but isn't. It's ju
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Are you going to make sense one of these days, Jenny Jenny?
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drop e IMPUT - see imput. see largely as an imp, nee Obama
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impate: to do or to get a hair transplant.
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IMCUTE - a cheap imitation fuzzy Nerml doll (see Garfield comic strip)
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When some outsider calls us one of those words it's an insult; when one of our own calls us that it's camaraderie. Or something like that.
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Originally Posted By: BranSheaWhy would one need a sophisticated word for an unsophisticated state of being anyway? Dunno. That's what Sorrow asked for.
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impute PRONUNCIATION:(im-PYOOT) MEANING: verb tr.: To attribute, ascribe, or credit, often unfairly. ETYMOLOGY: From Old French imputer, from Latin imputare, from in- (in) + putare (to assess, reckon). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pau
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RETOLD + D Often recounted to a TODDLER
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- A RETOLD
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I guess it depends upon context, to some extent, Branny. It could be offensive or arrogant, I spose. But it is certainly impolite and might well be a little bit rude or offensive.
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Thank you.
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P > T LEOTARD
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Originally Posted By: Rhubarb CommandoUk English would use the word, "scruffy" for a general lack of hygiene and tidyness Sounds sophisticated enough to me. It's even English! Why would one need a sophisticated word for an unsophisticated state of b
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It's an interesting thing that we can identify as something but yet there are rules about who call call us that.
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Well spoken, Luke.
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Re: Yo !
by endymion6
@ 05/15/13 10:14 PM
PAROLE + D I spotted a good one! LEOPARD
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Yo !
by wofahulicodoc
@ 05/15/13 10:07 PM
PLAYER Y>O ! They let me out on... PAROLE
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