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Well, I'll be dumg.

My teacher explained the rule similarly. Inanimate objects are hung. Animate objects are hanged. I guess if you hanged someone, after a minute or two, he could be considered,well,hung.

Same same. It started with restaurants and pubs and now the push is on to ban it in all public spaces. Soon, it will only be legal in my own house. Actually, it’s been illegal in my house for years. I guess I’ll have to quit. I vow that they will never stop me from running with scissors. A man has t...

Ken I noticed that one of the results from DARE’s survey was “to go round robin”. I wonder if there is a connection to a round-robin tournament, in which each team or player plays every other team or player once. This type of tournament set up does seem a bit of a trip ‘round the barn when compared ...

Hey WoZ We’d love to attend, but we’ll be busy hosting our own IIHF tourney in 2008. Different division…different teams. Interesting to read about hockey being played in such far-flung places. (Flung far from here). I remember back in the early 80’s there was a major push on to promote hockey down u...

Who could believe such a phallusy?

...all the while, forming pyramids and frightening the children...

I'm almost there,comma,but the giant bees keeping me at bay full stop.

I think it does come from "promenade". Apart the boardwalk definition it can also mean a march or procession into a ballroom.
Maybe it is a term coined by teenage boys in reference to a perceived
"prom"ise by their graduation night dates. Prom dates do cost a lot of money!

I'm feeling a little flushed.

Quoc I’m sure we’ve managed to muddy the waters a bit on this one. By the way, did you purposely list your examples as 1/ and b/ for effect? Intentional or not, for some strange reason, apples and oranges always make me smile. 1,2,C…A,B,3. Eric I wouldn’t be too pissed to see Dubya on my doorstep (s...

Although I am not unable to recognize an equine fatality when I see it (and that’s never a pretty site!), I have to give it one parting lash for good measure. “You’re welcome” and “no problem” certainly mean something, and in my book (which I realize may not be in wide circulation), each mean someth...

I'm thinking of greeting all of my future house guests with "I am not pissed-off that you came."

It's funny that this should come up. I was just thinking about this the other day. The phrase "no problem" is, certainly, being used interchangably with "your welcome" and it drives me crazy. Telling me that I haven't caused you a problem is not the same as telling me that I am welcome. When I thank...

Beauty! Now we have a decision that I can take.