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#150802 11/23/05 09:42 AM
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Whereas some of us choose to be insulting with our avatars.




I don't know what you're talking about Max. I cropped mine so the machete doesn't show.

#150803 11/23/05 09:53 AM
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and whereas some of us can't be arsed with little pictures at all on a site about language... [/grump]

#150804 11/23/05 10:51 AM
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They say "A picture is worth a thousand words."

#150805 11/23/05 12:14 PM
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Thousands of years ago, a large population movement began as the Viords, a Germanic group, pressed from behind, began to invade the Pictish islands. It soon turned into a medium-scale war, though it probably seemed like a full-scale war to those involved.

The leader of the Viords told one of his generals that he wanted to assault and take a particular tor because it would be strategically important. The general blanched. "Excellence, it will cost me dozens of men to take that hill, and I doubt that we could hold it."

"Silence!" roared the Viord leader. "I don't care how many men it takes. Everyone knows that one Pict tor is worth a thousand Viords."


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#150806 11/23/05 12:17 PM
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> I don't care how many men it takes.

nah, they just ended up giving them a bunch of cars.


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#150807 11/23/05 12:54 PM
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It was not what is was cracked up to be
It was overrated
It was a washout.
It was underwhelming.
It was a let-down.
It was below par.

#150808 11/24/05 04:46 AM
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Oh, I thought it was better than the average of TEd's stories.


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-- no bears and no woods --

or, as eta says, bs: if a bear shits in the woods, and neither bear nor woods exists, then the only thing the shit could be is bull.

#150810 11/24/05 11:47 PM
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At the risk of going back to the original question with HL "just a lot of hot air"
PS TEd and Bingley thanks for the

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