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Report your use of Brokieisms in so-called "real life"
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: wolf on June 18, 2006, 11:39:52 pm ---I'd like to hear about someone using:
"rodeoin' ain't what it was in my daddy's day"
convincingly in conversation with an unBroken. anyone up for it?
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LOL. Good challenge, Wolf! Extra credit if, in response, the other person just shakes their head "no" and takes a drag off their cigarette.
And David, I used to say "Excuse me?" or "Pardon me?" when I didn't catch what somebody said. Now I just say, "Hunh?" It may not sound as polite, but I enjoy it much more!
gattaca:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on June 18, 2006, 05:26:07 pm ---I'll start. My husband and I have different inner thermostats, so we're always fighting over the temperature in our house. Yesterday evening, when he cranked the AC just about high enough to frost the windows, I fled to the 87-degree comfort of the back porch. He came outside briefly and admitted that it was, in fact, pretty nice out. So I said:
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Oh! We'd make great roommates! I keep the a/c in the house at about 84 during the day (it's 107-110 in Tucson in June/July) but I can't handle the indoor temps being that chilly either. It's not healthy.
But at night, the air outside here in Tucson is just glorious!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: atz75 on June 18, 2006, 07:01:33 pm ---This isn't very interesting... but "tell you what..." is now a regular part of my speech pattern.
:-\
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Mine, too, and that's about it. But I never used that phrase BBBM (before Brokeback Mountain).
Hmmm. Now, there's a thought: A new way to reckon time: BBBM (as above) and ABBM (after. ...).
Front-Ranger:
Another thing I say all the time is "No instruction manual needed." If I ever run into someone else who's read the story, I will know it right away when I say that!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 19, 2006, 09:30:16 am --- If I ever run into someone else who's read the story, I will know it right away when I say that!!
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I always fantasize that I'll use one of those distinctive phrases while, I don't know, standing in a supermarket line or sumpn -- when I'm in town, and then when I go out on the pavement -- and some stranger's ears will perk up and our eyes will lock and we'll know. And maybe it will turn out to be someone from here!
You "tell you what" folks may have to step it up a notch if you want to have this kind of experience. Now if you'd start sprinkling "dumbass mules" throughout your conversation ...
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