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#4955 04/07/01 09:11 PM
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Just in for a short browse, but I had to log-in to respond to this one because I couldn't believe no one mentioned

serpentine: snakelike (and would you like a nice shiny red apple, Eve?), but actually more in the meaning of a slithery form rather than character.

and, then, of course, so obvious with all the bovine talk (and to quote good ol' Teddy Roosevelt): Bully! We'll have a bully good time!


#4956 04/07/01 09:22 PM
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Since I brought up bully, I guess I better add bullish, too...as in financial jargon, or feeling sure or solid about something.


#4957 04/07/01 09:57 PM
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Bearish? Opps, that's a swear word, isn't it?


#4958 04/08/01 01:32 PM
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And I sheepishly have to admit forgetting sheepish!


#4959 04/09/01 11:50 AM
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I won't badger you about forgetting .... er, ... badger.

And when someone has been soundly defeated in a game of cribbage, he has been skunked.

An easy, close-in shot in basketball is a bunny.

I shall doggedly pursue more animal terms.

Release the hounds! The cat's out of the bag. Buy a pig in a poke. Cat got your tongue? My friend is hen-pecked, but he doesn't crow about it. Quit monkeying around. Quit horsing around.

Lookout! Catfight! One of them will be eating crow soon enough. The other will be the scapegoat.

Well, I've layed enough eggs, and milked this long enough.

What a ham... [and I've segued into the inevitable food thread ]


#4960 04/14/01 02:55 PM
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Does anyone else suspect Sparteye's getting a little squirrelly?


#4961 06/28/01 01:00 PM
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hi

can anyone tell me the origin of the phrase full monty please


#4962 06/28/01 01:39 PM
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OK, Archie. Fess up. [squinting-through-the-fog-of-pseudonym-aliases emoticon]



#4963 06/28/01 02:12 PM
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hmmmm..... one doesn't know who anyone is, if someone is signing up repeatedly.



#4964 06/28/01 02:21 PM
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can anyone tell me the origin of the phrase full monty please

We could, but not here.


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