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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    "Hand me my phone, I need a flashlight," would have sounded like complete and utter nonsense in the not too distant past.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Calling a dolphin "Flipper" is like naming your dog "Leg".
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time". George Orwell
  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    "It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
    Marilyn Monroe
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    It bothers me that there's no computer on the desk in the Oval Office.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Could musicians please stop using police sirens as music effects?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Mosquitoes are the ultimate masters of Stop Hitting Yourself.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    I wonder if Apple has monthly meetings on ways they can make iTunes worse, or if it just happens organically?
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    90% of what I post on forums is for fun and effect.
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    "The way the parts of me
    They always disagree
    It's a wonder that this body doesn't break"
  • vikinglander
    vikinglander Posts: 1,547 Member
    You can tune an engine, a radio, or a musical instrument, but you can't tun(e)-a fish...
  • sw33tp3a1
    sw33tp3a1 Posts: 5,065 Member
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    M. Night Shyamalan should make a movie without a plot twist to really throw us off.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    After years of being an adult, I wouldn't mind having a purpose as well defined and easily executable as "You pass butter.".

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  • BoosDimples
    BoosDimples Posts: 2,826 Member
    Salt and chilli squid is amazeballs! :yum:
  • Amys712
    Amys712 Posts: 86 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Why do people say "tuna fish" when they don't say "beef mammal" or "chicken bird"?

    Haha! Nice. Never thought about it.
  • EmmaCottrellluv
    EmmaCottrellluv Posts: 689 Member
    Why is an orange named orange put a grape ain't named purple gets on my nerves
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?
  • Strivetobebetter76
    Strivetobebetter76 Posts: 1,784 Member
    Haha, this made me chuckle this morning... one exception, we didn't wear helmets in the 80's

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  • dc8066
    dc8066 Posts: 1,439 Member
    slimgirljo15 wrote: »
    Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?

    There is a word for dried apricots, 'curaga' (or 'kuraga'), but not in English
  • MrStabbems
    MrStabbems Posts: 3,110 Member
    Strivetobebetter76 wrote: »
    Haha, this made me chuckle this morning... one exception, we didn't wear helmets in the 80's

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    Having seen head and neck injuries with and without helmets first hand, I'd rather be called a *kitten* and wear a helmet thanks.
    ..and I was born in the 80's.
  • Strivetobebetter76
    Strivetobebetter76 Posts: 1,784 Member
    MrStabbems wrote: »
    Strivetobebetter76 wrote: »
    Haha, this made me chuckle this morning... one exception, we didn't wear helmets in the 80's

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    Having seen head and neck injuries with and without helmets first hand, I'd rather be called a *kitten* and wear a helmet thanks.
    ..and I was born in the 80's.

    I'm not knocking head and neck injuries cuz they certainly are nothing to laugh about. I just thought the meme was funny and gave me a chuckle. As a kid, I had no cares. But now that I'm older, of course I prefer to be more safe.
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    dc8066 wrote: »
    slimgirljo15 wrote: »
    Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?

    There is a word for dried apricots, 'curaga' (or 'kuraga'), but not in English

    Lol..yeah ..I should have specified in english :)

    It was actually a question posed to me by my son.
  • gcibsthom
    gcibsthom Posts: 30,145 Member
    from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice

    "The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
    It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven..."

    But I ask you....if the quality of mercy is not strain'd, how do you keep it from getting lumpy?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Something is seriously wrong with the education system when the most common adult nightmare is that you're still in school.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited May 2017
    slimgirljo15 wrote: »
    Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?

    Sultana? Did I just learn what they call raisins down under?
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    slimgirljo15 wrote: »
    Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?

    Sultana? Did I just learn what they call raisins down under?

    We have both Cee..raisins are larger in appearance..sultanas darker ..
    I found this..not sure if its 100% though as somewhere said raisins were a different grape..
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  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    edited May 2017
    In the USA and Canada, the name "raisin" is applied to all dried grapes, so that the breakfast cereal known as "sultana bran" in Australia and the United Kingdom is called raisin bran in the United States andCanada.[2]

    Technically Cee I guess you are correct....you would call our sultanas raisins..

    Here you can buy boxes of sultanas or raisins..both available

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