#78237
08/15/2002 11:05 AM
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I have to admit that I have used the phrase - and you're quite right; it does sound pretty bad! Definitely only for jocular use, I think!
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#78238
08/15/2002 12:05 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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it does sound pretty bad!
I'd venture to say that I've never heard it in anything but the infinitive.
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#78239
08/15/2002 12:21 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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I exercise great restraint and I forgo to dispute the point with you, dear Faldage.
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#78240
08/15/2002 12:35 PM
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I forgo to dispute the point with you
I'll forgo pointing out that this excludes counterexamples contrary to normal usage contrived for the purpose of disputing my claim.
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#78241
08/15/2002 12:38 PM
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The foregoing was a foregone conclusion, I s'pose.
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#78242
08/15/2002 12:40 PM
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formerly known as etaoin...
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#78243
08/15/2002 12:43 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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A useful admonition, eta - forewarned is four armed - sort of two-thirds of a Kali.
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#78244
08/15/2002 12:50 PM
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Why don't y'all get out your walking sticks and duel it out?
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#78245
08/15/2002 12:52 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Can three people have a dual?
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#78246
08/15/2002 12:53 PM
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Rhuby, are you suggesting we should have a trial instead?
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#78247
08/15/2002 12:56 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Well, now that AnnaS has joined us, we could have some four-play.
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#78248
08/15/2002 1:09 PM
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[Dragging this thread back onto topic] Ok, why IS there a difference in the spelling? I note that Atomica gives forego as an alternate sp. of forgo. It also lists forewent!  Could I say, for ex., "I drove to Michigan but I forewent to Indiana"? (Eww...)
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#78249
08/15/2002 1:16 PM
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I forewent to Indiana"?
depends what you went fore?
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#78250
08/15/2002 1:36 PM
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is malformed. And when it comes to eating you have to hand it to Venus de Milo.
TEd
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#78251
08/15/2002 1:45 PM
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I guess she and Tantalus formed the first effective weight-watchers club, TEd!
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#78252
08/15/2002 8:34 PM
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old hand
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>forewarned is four armed - sort of two-thirds of a Kali.
No verbal thuggery here, tyvm.
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#78253
08/16/2002 10:18 PM
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Dragging this (kinda) back on topic (sorry all), how about forewillgo for something you intend to forego in the future?. Jest wonderin'!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#78254
08/17/2002 2:56 AM
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And everybody knows that the condition during an extreme drought and water shortage in the Old West was known as Wells Forgo. (nooo...stop throwin' stuff at me, I'm leavin, I'm leavin'!...);)
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