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03-06-2011, 11:25 AM
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Encroaching on your decrees
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Words you wish your language had.
This game is for anyone, anywhere, but perhaps has a special piquancy for the Amurricans and the Brits here. Who knows?
Anyway, I would like to claim dumpster from our friends stateside for use in Britain - what a great word, so much better than skip, doncherknow?
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Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of 
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03-06-2011, 11:34 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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The alliterative qualities of "dumpster diving" make it the go to word of the month.
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03-06-2011, 02:14 PM
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in a mood, not cupcake
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Location: Philadelphia
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I've really liked manky ever since I'd seen it used here on teh cellar. It's like "monkey" and "skanky" had a baby!
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03-06-2011, 06:58 PM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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I think ish should be a word on its own, meaning approximately.
"Drive ish three miles north and turn left." "A new computer is ish $900." |
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03-06-2011, 08:27 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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Who am I? My name is Ish
On my hand I have a dish. I have this dish to help me wish. When I wish to make a wish I wave my hand with a big swish swish. Then I say, "I wish for fish!" And I get fish right on my dish. So... If you wish to make a wish, you may swish for fish with my Ish wish dish.
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03-07-2011, 11:12 AM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Location: DC
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I've had the phrase "I wish I wish I wish for fish" coming into my head every once in a while for a long time, and was unable to track down the prase. It must be a corrupted version of Seuss!
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03-07-2011, 11:21 AM
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polaroid of perfection
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Location: West Yorkshire
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I would like a word to describe the situation where food smells so much better than it tastes. It's a very specific kind of anticipation/ disappointment.
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03-07-2011, 11:59 AM
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Adapt and Survive
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Location: Ann Arbor, Mi
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French and German have second person plural case and pronoun, but English is lacking, fortunately the southern US has filled this void with "y'all"
Very handy, probably sounds a bit funny when I say it, but then y'all can go whistle dixie. 
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03-07-2011, 12:02 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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I wish my work lingo included: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON CAN YOU NOT READ OR WERE YOU TEMPORARILY BLINDED OR MAYBE YOU'RE STILL DRUNK?
edit: and that's for my cow orkers! Sigh. But really, when I want to say "that really throws a wrench in the works" I have to make myself say "wrench" because I so like the British (is that the right classification?) word spanner better...as in "Well, that really throws a spanner in the works."
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03-07-2011, 12:03 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Quote:
 You need to do a circular motion with your hand (pointer finger), parallel to ground, to indicate "all of you in this immediate area up around here."
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03-07-2011, 12:05 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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that's what I thought too
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03-07-2011, 12:12 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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Quote:
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03-07-2011, 12:15 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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ur a tool
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03-07-2011, 12:17 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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She totally hats you.
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03-07-2011, 12:20 PM
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a beautiful fool
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i like the way his brainbrainbrain works
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