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>I have kept my eyes peeled for a Triffid or an Ent
You have ents on that side of the pond too? Ours over here tend to be a bit out of control most of the time.
Ted wanders off whistling "Ent Misbehaving"
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Ted wanders off whistling "Ent Misbehaving"
Oh, I would have expected "ENt Misbehaving"
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Ent Misbehaving
It is patently obvious that it is their parents that are to blame. They should have recognized that misbehaviour is a latent tendent-cy.
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>Oh, I would have expected "ENt Misbehaving"< Eh, sorry, would you mind letting me in on this? Maybe I am not the only puzzled foreigner reading this board  ..
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TEd carries a promise of double capitalisation of words.
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puzzled foreigner
But at least we're in a polite company, wsieber. I can still remember the shock as a naive 20-something to find myself greeted in Nu Yoick as an alien - have a nice day, now!
Which I guess is one of the reasons I still respond to the Sting song along the same theme. Speaking of which brings me to a monde (but not a full one): a friend used to swear this song's lyrics contained the immortal poetry "I'm a Luther Aryan, I'm an Aryan in New York"
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Well, I was puzzled, but not alienated, by "monde". My first thought it was the French word for world. Then I finally remembered mondegreen. And yep, all visitors/
residents from outside the U.S. are "aliens", to some officials, unless they obtain citizenship, as far as I know.
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>Well, I was puzzled, but not alienated, by "monde". My first thought it was the French word for world. Then I finally remembered mondegreen. And yep, all visitors/residents from outside the U.S. are "aliens", to some officials, unless they obtain citizenship, as far as I know.
My wife is an attorney who has filed a class action law suit to allow all of the aliens in the US to move to a special cantonment in the United States where they can practice free love. Truly she is suing for alien nation of affection.
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>I have kept my eyes peeled for a Triffid or an Ent
You have ents on that side of the pond too?
Back-tracking a bit because of the time zone differences, but I think over Max Q's way an ent would live in an enthill and be eaten by an enteater.
Come in, Max!
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I have kept my eyes peeled for a Triffid or an Ent - or even a huorn - but so far have only seen JCBs and bulldozers.
JCB's?? (or JCBs is you prefer). Where is this expression used? US? UK? I'm not into roadmaking in a big way, but I'd never run into it before (sorry!). From my 45 seconds of research it would appear that JCB is a manufacturing company for earthmoving equipment whose name has made the jump into ordinary usage (see recent AWAD weekly theme etc). Caterpillars and D9s here, yes, but not JCB's.
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