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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2010, 09:40:21 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on January 17, 2010, 08:16:35 PM
Actually it is "let slip the dogs of war".

Supposably that's true.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2010, 11:01:12 PM »
This entire tread is useless, irregardless of weather any of yore statements is write.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2010, 11:11:44 PM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on January 17, 2010, 11:01:12 PM
This entire tread is useless, irregardless of weather any of yore statements is write.

Literally?
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #28 on: January 17, 2010, 11:15:46 PM »
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"The true mad scientist does not make public appearances! He does not wear the "Hello, my name is.." badge!
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2010, 11:31:17 PM »
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Those are two different words.  They do not mean the same thing.

I run the AV at church and the pastor ALWAYS mis-spells lose as loose.  I don't have any room to speak.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #30 on: January 17, 2010, 11:31:35 PM »
Your such a party popper, Harold.
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Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.

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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2010, 11:56:07 PM »
I could care less.  :lol:
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #32 on: January 18, 2010, 12:14:29 AM »
Want we have hear is a failer to communicate.
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If there really was intelligent life on other planets, we'd be sending them foreign aid.

Conservatives see George Orwell's "1984" as a cautionary tale.  Progressives view it as a "how to" manual.

My wife often says to me, "You are evil and must be destroyed." She may be right.

Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.

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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #33 on: January 18, 2010, 12:31:39 AM »
Quote from: RocketMan on January 18, 2010, 12:14:29 AM
Want we have hear is a failer to communicate.

Of epoch proportions ...
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #34 on: January 18, 2010, 01:01:06 AM »
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #35 on: January 18, 2010, 06:23:30 AM »
I don't know how, but this one time, my friend managed to loose her parent's dogs.  They were tied up really well, but she lost them anyway.  Who knows where they went, but it was probably somewhere on the beach, close to the specific ocean near her house.

She asked me for help to find them that afternoon.  I said I'd rather go for a swim, then look for the dogs.  Going for a swim was a lot more fun.

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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #36 on: January 18, 2010, 08:35:32 AM »
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #37 on: January 18, 2010, 11:00:32 AM »
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #38 on: January 18, 2010, 11:09:29 AM »
For all intensive purposes this thread is useless.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #39 on: January 18, 2010, 11:22:16 AM »
I may have told this before but...

A guy in our IT department once asked one of his peers how to spell "post". "Post?", asked the other guy.

"Yeah, like 'I'm post to take care of this.'"

Lord, help me!

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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #40 on: January 18, 2010, 11:51:33 AM »
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A guy in our IT department once asked one of his peers how to spell "post". "Post?", asked the other guy.
"Yeah, like 'I'm post to take care of this.'"

He meant "opposed," I'm sure.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #41 on: January 18, 2010, 12:03:17 PM »
Quote from: Standing Wolf on January 18, 2010, 11:51:33 AM
He meant "opposed," I'm sure.

Close.

"Supposed"

"S'posed", I imagine. You knew this, and I know you knew it.

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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #42 on: January 18, 2010, 12:06:32 PM »
"Swelt"  and "swolt" are not words at all.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #43 on: January 18, 2010, 12:17:32 PM »
Quote from: slugcatcher on January 18, 2010, 12:06:32 PM
"Swelt"  and "swolt" are not words at all.

Can you put those in context?  I have no idea what they are supposed to mean!
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #44 on: January 18, 2010, 12:22:10 PM »
Try learning the difference between a' dol and a dhol    :P

Tha mi a' dol a mach.

A bheil thu airson a dhol a mach?

Tha mi a' smaoineachadh gu bheil sin ceart  =|
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #45 on: January 18, 2010, 12:26:14 PM »
The copper pipe was leakin,
so i swelt it a'gin.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #46 on: January 18, 2010, 12:45:04 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on January 18, 2010, 12:17:32 PM
Can you put those in context?  I have no idea what they are supposed to mean!

I'm was walking through the security checkpoint at work one morning and I overheard three security guards trying to figure out the proper usage of the word "swell" in a sentence. Two of them agreed to go with "swolt". The third thought it was "swelt". This is typical of east Texas but when you get to a town where they don't have to pipe in sunshine words such as those tend to not be used.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #47 on: January 18, 2010, 01:50:44 PM »
Quote from: slugcatcher on January 18, 2010, 12:06:32 PM
"Swelt"  and "swolt" are not words at all.


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I swelt oo thing of you . . . and I see that you do to.
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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #48 on: January 18, 2010, 01:56:02 PM »
Okay, so she's naked, but is she articulate?
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 The price of a lottery ticket seems to be the maximum most folks are willing to risk toward the dream of becoming a one-percenter. “Robert Hollis”

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Re: "Lose," and "loose."
« Reply #49 on: January 18, 2010, 03:40:56 PM »
Quote from: JamisJockey on January 18, 2010, 01:56:02 PM
Okay, so she's naked, but is she articulate?
I'm thinking I don't care...  =D

The boss' son in law (little boss) told me to get some "Malibu fittings" one day. I said, "What the hell is a Malibu fitting? He said you know, not cast iron but malibu iron." So I said, "Uh, the word is malleable".  :lol:

And just the other day, I saw on TV where the poor lady's house burned down, she said, "My house and all my stuff is burned, what am I a post to do?"

Oh, let's not forget the girl I liked once who said to me, "Would you like some pasketti?" suddenly I was wondering exactly what it was I saw in her. OK, she had a real nice butt, but even that couldn't bring me around after sharing pasketti with her.  =|
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