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[lavinia]

Journalists said the professor had a bloody saw. But maybe it was British journalists. Je had a bloody saw. How would they say it: He had a bloody bloody saw?

I saw Saw but I didn't see Saw 2

 

[WWGD]

I saw Saw but I didn't see Saw 2

You saw saw the bloody bloody saw?

 

[fresh_42]

Don't forget: These are the good old days of tomorrow!

 

[WWGD]

Not too bright of a thing to do. New comedian making political jokes. Lost half the potential audience. Stay out of politics until you're successful. I prefer to separate the two unless you're with people you agree with.

 

[WWGD]

Don't forget: These are the good old days of tomorrow!

I will proudly tell my grandsons I saved the world by sitting on my ass all day watching TV and eating chips. I deserve a medal for bravery.

 

[fresh_42]

Is there a reason why you use the same word patient in two different contexts? Ok, you have to be patient as a patient nowadays, but this is a thin explanation.

 

[jbriggs444]

Is there a reason why you use the same word patient in two different contexts? Ok, you have to be patient as a patient nowadays, but this is a thin explanation.

Online etymology suggests that patience has always been attribute of a patient -- suffering in silence. I see no reason to disagree.

 

[WWGD]

Name for a new mice trap: The demise of de mice.

 

[WWGD]

Is there a reason why you use the same word patient in two different contexts? Ok, you have to be patient as a patient nowadays, but this is a thin explanation.

The demise of de mice. Same thing.

 

[lavinia]

The demise of de mice. Same thing.

Five men in a car are commuting to work and are driving through the Lincoln tunnel. Their tongues are hanging out, Their eyes are bulging. Their heads are hanging out of the window.They are ripping their shirts open. They are yanking convulsively on their ties. They are clutching the roof of the car.

It was diagnosed as Carpool Tunnel Syndrome

 

[lavinia]

The demise of de mice. Same thing.

To my Swiss friend Michele, whose native language is French, the words "garbage" and "cabbage" in English sound exactly the same. In French the words "fossils" and "faux cils" sound exactly the same to me.

 

[WWGD]

To my Swiss friend Michele, whose native language is French, the words "garbage" and "cabbage" in English sound exactly the same. In French the words "fossils" and "faux cils" sound exactly the same to me.

Combining both languages, she can sho(w) the cabbage is chaud.

 

[DrGreg]

Un oeuf is enough.

 

[fresh_42]

Un oeuf is enough.

No, it isn't.

 

[Ibix]

No, it isn't.

Depends if you're egged on to eat more or not.

 

[fresh_42]

Anybody with a 3D printer here?
https://scoollab.web.cern.ch/quark-puzzle

 

[lavinia]

sho

Combining both languages, she can sho(w) the cabbage is chaud.

Sho an oeuf

 

[nsaspook]

 

[fresh_42]

We have a phrase here to answer someone who told you something completely irrelevant, not of any interest or boring: "That interests me about as much as if a sack of rice falls over in China."

Can someone please remind me, to run and buy: sanitizers, one way gloves, FFP3 masks, toilet paper, paper towels, canned food, and pasta if in China falls a sack of rice again.

 

[Janus]

We have a phrase here to answer someone who told you something completely irrelevant, not of any interest or boring: "That interests me about as much as if a sack of rice falls over in China."

Can someone please remind me, to run and buy: sanitizers, one way gloves, FFP3 masks, toilet paper, paper towels, canned food, and pasta if in China falls a sack of rice again.

Why is it that China keeps getting used in these sayings? The one I grew up with was:
"What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"
For when someone said something irrelevant.

 

[Ibix]

Why is it that China keeps getting used in these sayings? The one I grew up with was:
"What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"
For when someone said something irrelevant.

Similarly, my Dad used "not for all the tea in China" to mean "not under any circumstances".

 

[BillTre]

Maybe because it is often considered to be on the "other side of the world".

 

[WWGD]

Sign of the times? I saw an empty , used, cup with the Starbucks logo by the side of the road and I felt a pang of nostalgia, almost shed a tear: ah, the old days when you went to a coffee shop to hang out...

 

[fresh_42]

Why is it that China keeps getting used in these sayings?

I think because it is as far as it can get, it's (had been) mysterious, and it is strange in comparison to the alternatives downunder.

 

[Janus]

Wait, maybe we can find a connection here:
Rice is a food staple in China, If a bag of rice falls over and spills, this could reduce the food supply, which in turn is used to feed the workers in the tea industry. Poorly fed workers produce less, causing a shortage of tea, driving its price up!

 

[WWGD]

But the insistence on getting rid of bats will put an end to the Baseball season!

 

[WWGD]

New coffee shop chain Birch coffee shop chose to use cursive letters for some of its signs. New suggested logo:" No, not a t, its an r".

 

[Klystron]

We have a phrase here to answer someone who told you something completely irrelevant, not of any interest or boring: "That interests me about as much as if a sack of rice falls over in China."
{snip}

The saying I learned as a child for irrelevant information from a faraway place was:

"What has that to do with the price of peanuts in Perth?"​

The "price of peanuts" part was probably alliteration. Everything Australian was considered cool back then; so, Perth. In the 1960's kids would talk about visiting Australia; in the 1980's, Alaska. My children like to visit Asia; my grandchildren, Europe. So, full circle. Everything old is new again.

 

[fresh_42]

New coffee shop chain Birch coffee shop chose to use cursive letters for some of its signs. New suggested logo:" No, not a t, its an r".

Too bad, isn't it?

 

[WWGD]

Too bad, isn't it?

You would imagine they would know better. Wonder if they will change it and admit their mistake, that it was not a good idea. Specially after McD's McWrap ( Ma Crap) just a few years back. "Would you like a McWrap?". " Well, it's kind of personal, don't you think?".

 

[Evo]

Posts have been deleted, debate is not allowed in random thoughts.

 

[hutchphd]

Fair enough, but a priori how would one know this?

 

[dlgoff]

This is one reason I like Kansas:

 

[WWGD]

Edit:Started talking to this Russian guy named Timur. I told him there was a city in the US named after him (Clearly not him personally but someone of his same name)Baltimur. He believed and seemed so happy that it felt too awkward to tell him it was a joke. Hope he won't make too much of an idiot of himself if/when talking about it.

 

[DennisN]

Let's go shopping. In 1663.

387-Year-Old Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards In Historic English Home
http://archaeology-world.com/387-year-old-shopping-list-discovered-under-floorboards-in-historic-english-home/

Mr. Bilby, I pray p[ro]vide to be sent too morrow in ye Cart some Greenfish, The Lights from my Lady Cranfield[es] Cham[ber] 2 dozen of Pewter spoon[es]: one greate fireshovell for ye nursery; and ye o[t]hers which were sent to be exchanged for some of a better fashion, a new frying pan together with a note of ye prises of such Commoditie for ye rest.

Your loving friend

Robert Draper

Octobre 1633

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