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>Windows is formatting your hard disk.
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Do you think that maybe the computer equivalent of "Wash your mouth out with soap!"


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Do you think that maybe the computer equivalent of "Wash your mouth out with soap!"

Maybe,
But I've achieved greater success by threatening my children with jalapeņos.

Juan Maria.


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But I've achieved greater success by threatening my children with jalapeņos.


Hmm, for my Dad, that would be a bribe, not a threat.



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"And she would have been older than WOW ."

Capital Kiwi, I think that the phrase which will be the subject of etymological speculation in fifty years is the one you just coined. "Older than wow": what a great expression. It will leave the same mystified look on my younger listeners that "gone like pong" does now.


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re 'that' word

Although a frequent user of it (too long in the bush with drillers - one only needed a 2 word vocabulary - will leave it up to you to guess the other one) I refuse to put it into print. How's that for double standards!!

Remember those funny faxes we all used to get at work before email was invented? Dja ever see the one that gave examples of ALL the different ways the word could be used (ie wonder, incredulity, anger, loving etc). I remember just about busting myself larfin. (I'm ashamed to say that the only one I can remember was incredulity - the Lord Mayor of Hiroshima - "What the f* was THAT?"

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one only needed a 2 word vocabulary - will leave it up to you to guess the other one) I refuse to put it into print.

When I worked on cray boats on the west coast, the most common expression was an invitation to take up a new occupation involving sex and travel ...



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I really hate the word "pot pourri" (I'm not sure I even know how to spell it). And I don't much care for pot pourri itself. I also dislike the word "veritable," and unfortunately folks will occasionally mention "a veritable pot pourri" and I subsequently have to be hospitalized for weeks at a time.


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WARNING - Potentially controversial! Be aware I am anti the phrase, not the nationality!

A friend from college nearly goes into seizures when she hears the "oi" dipthong...

This brings to mind immediately the warcry of the home team in the Olympics 'Aussie Aussie Aussie - oi oi oi!' As a non-native living in Sydney, this makes me cringe internally.
'Oi' is to me such an ugly exclamation, conjuring up images of angry, incoherent red-faced men who can't be bothered to remember your name but need your attention this very minute for something which is important to them but you know nothing at all about and have nothing to do with anyway. (yes, I have two particular men in mind!)
I suspect I have stronger mental associations than many, but still I can't understand why Australians would want their country to be associated with such a yobbish chant.


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I refuse to pronounce "renege" as everyone else does.

The best sound a word ever makes is when "public" is spoken. It sounds like a video game or something from the mouth of Qbert.


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Someone, sometime, somewhere said the most euphonious phrase in English is "cellar door."
Say it aloud several times, it is really pretty in American.
How does it sound with English, Aussie, Zild accent? Nice perchance?
OTOH, say uncle or Ithica several times, aloud, and they sound really dorky
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