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07-08-2004, 01:20 PM
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World Ruler
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Expressions I am starting to hate
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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Maybe it actually started as a not-so-veiled allusion to the evil weed and so it's supposed to be funny and subversive for lawyer types to say it, kind of like, wink wink, I know I seem buttoned up to you, like a dork who uses consultant-speak because he thinks it sounds clever, but that's deliberate and therefore ironic, and by the way, I'm really wild and free, or at least a slacker, at heart.
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I think it's obvious that this meaning is baked in to the expression.
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"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way."
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07-08-2004, 01:21 PM
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#4532
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pop goes the chupacabra
Posts: 18,532
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Expressions I am starting to hate
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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Wow - I hear this crap all the time. You all never hear it? You're so lucky. OK, in a sentence.
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I'll have to try using it in litigation.
Judge: Counsel, could you please explain why the Constitution bars the prosecution of your client for soliciting?
Me: Well, the freedom to engage in a business pursuit is baked in to the First, Fifth, and 14th amendments, your honor. |
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07-08-2004, 01:26 PM
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#4533
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 11,873
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Expressions I am starting to hate
Quote:
Originally posted by robustpuppy
Maybe it actually started as a not-so-veiled allusion to the evil weed and so it's supposed to be funny and subversive for lawyer types to say it, kind of like, wink wink, I know I seem buttoned up to you, like a dork who uses consultant-speak because he thinks it sounds clever, but that's deliberate and therefore ironic, and by the way, I'm really wild and free, or at least a slacker, at heart.
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You read a whole lot into dorky comments by your opposing counsel. |
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07-08-2004, 01:26 PM
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#4534
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: State of Chaos
Posts: 8,197
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Expressions I am starting to hate
Quote:
Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I think it's obvious that this meaning is baked in to the expression.
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I wouldn't know. I'm drug free, but high on life! |
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07-08-2004, 01:27 PM
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#4535
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Appalaichan Trail
Posts: 6,201
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making fringey's day
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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
You see, if I said the above comment, it would be referring to at least 10 years ago. With you, its probably yesterday. And probably the comment refers to some movie I've never seen. I feel old.
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Speaking of feeling old, I was especially depressed last year around my birthday, as the "number" was one that sounded old to me (irrational [not the number, my reaction] -- not a milestone number or anything, just one that sounded old.)
Well, as luck would have it, I had miscalculated my age (that's what happens when you get old), and I was actually one year younger than my "old-sounding" age; I had a new lease on life! I had been granted a reprieve!!
However, now it's time to pay the piper. My birthday is fast approaching, and that number is looming. Although, now that I've had a year to get used to it, it doesn't trouble me as it did last time around.
(I told you my minimalist period would be short lived!) |
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07-08-2004, 01:30 PM
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#4536
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Appalaichan Trail
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Expressions I am starting to hate
Quote:
Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Wow - I hear this crap all the time. You all never hear it? You're so lucky. OK, in a sentence.
me: I think we need a rep that they'll notify us if they are aware they're in breach.
client: I think that's already baked in to the agreement. There's a notification requirement in section 1(a).
blah blah blah
(of course, I would never miss a notification requirement. never)
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My god, people! Do you live in caves?
It must be a COTU thing. |
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07-08-2004, 01:39 PM
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#4537
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Throwing a kettle over a pub
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Expressions I am starting to hate
Quote:
Originally posted by dtb
My god, people! Do you live in caves?
It must be a COTU thing.
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Thank god.
Although it sounds like an LA thing.
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No no no, that's not gonna help. That's not gonna help and I'll tell you why: It doesn't unbang your Mom.
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07-08-2004, 01:40 PM
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#4538
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[intentionally omitted]
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
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for dtb
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07-08-2004, 01:42 PM
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#4539
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Apathy rocks!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: under a rock
Posts: 2,711
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Weirdness and San Fermin
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[i]Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
What, no pictures? Re pictures, is anyone really surprised that a band called "Cumshot" has people who fuck on stage (see Adult board)?
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I did find some from years past via Google, but I'm so sweet and naive that I can't bring myself to post them, even on the Adult Board.
Anne
I've never seen a porn flick
I've never accessed the Adult Board.
I've never read/viewed a skin mag.
Have no desire to do any of those things, and yet I don't mind going to strip clubs. Weird dat.
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07-08-2004, 01:50 PM
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#4540
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Throwing a kettle over a pub
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Weirdness and San Fermin
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Originally posted by Anne Elk
I did find some from years past via Google, but I'm so sweet and naive that I can't bring myself to post them, even on the Adult Board.
Anne
I've never seen a porn flick
I've never accessed the Adult Board.
I've never read/viewed a skin mag.
Have no desire to do any of those things, and yet I don't mind going to strip clubs. Weird dat.
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You said nothing about internet porn.
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No no no, that's not gonna help. That's not gonna help and I'll tell you why: It doesn't unbang your Mom.
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07-08-2004, 01:52 PM
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#4541
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Appalaichan Trail
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Pfft. As if I wouldn't.
(I do admit, however, I don't know what "boffins" are.) |
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07-08-2004, 01:56 PM
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#4542
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,117
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for dtb
Scoop of chocolate, scoop of vanilla. Don't waste my time. |
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07-08-2004, 01:57 PM
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#4543
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Retired
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 1,193
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for dtb
9/10
I mixed up pouring/poring.
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I used to have a stupid fucking signature here. Now there's this.
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07-08-2004, 01:57 PM
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#4544
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: tracking you down
Posts: 103
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Expressions I am starting to hate
Definitely not limited to TCOTU - it has been dismayingly prevalent in Silicon Valley for at least three years. By now, I hardly even wince any more. (Your lives must be far more sheltered from encounters with technology marketing people than mine.)
Quote:
Originally posted by dtb
My god, people! Do you live in caves?
It must be a COTU thing.
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07-08-2004, 01:59 PM
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#4545
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Appalaichan Trail
Posts: 6,201
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for dtb
Quote:
Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Scoop of chocolate, scoop of vanilla. Don't waste my time.
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Most excellent Atticus. That was a catch-phrase used by an old boyfriend and me not without frequency. |
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