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injest:
--- Quote from: Kerry on December 16, 2008, 09:26:31 am ---I like "There's a lid for every jar." :D
For example, when someone shares an item of gossip with me, such as "Did you hear that Justin and Bamber have become foot fetishists?" my standard response is "There's a lid for every jar," delivered in a blasé monotone. I feel more cool ;) and in-control ::) when saying "There's a lid for every jar," which I prefer to the alternative "Get outa here!" ;D
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Justin and Bamber are FOOT FETISHITS???? Get outa here!!
;D :laugh: :laugh:
Kerry:
--- Quote from: injest on December 16, 2008, 09:36:01 am ---
Justin and Bamber are FOOT FETISHISTS???? Get outa here!!
;D :laugh: :laugh:
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:laugh: I like "Get outa here" too, even though I feel like I'm channeling Carson Kressley when I say it! ;) :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Lynne on December 13, 2008, 09:36:56 am ---Exactly! Adverbs add color and depth to the mundane.
Onamata-poetic :) word are my next favorite like 'babble' and 'bubble'.
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How about "squeak" or "squeal"?
serious crayons:
What I think is really interesting is the number of words that share just a couple of letters -- not whole root words -- but have similar meanings. For instance, words that start with GL have to do with light:
Glow, glisten, glimmer, glass, glare, glint ...
So do words with FL:
Flash, flicker, flare ...
Words with GR have to do with earth:
Ground, grave, grass, grow, aGRiculture ...
And so on. I like to imagine that those little word fragments date back to caveman days. Like maybe back then they grunted "GLLL" when they saw a light, or "GRRRR" to indicate the ground.
Front-Ranger:
Funny! Y'all remind me of Annie Proulx. I remember reading about how she loved the word bishop, because it sounded like slip and shlep, (or something like that) and she liked to imagine a tipsy bishop running through the woods.
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