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Old 10-30-2008, 02:05 AM   #91
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I can't believe that this otherwise intelligent group of people is having conversations about their inability to identify left from right. I am at a loss for works.

Where is LJ when you need him to make a snarky comment?
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [calling out to platoon] Left shoulder, hut!
[Pyle accidentally puts his rifle on his right shoulder, then corrects quickly, but not before Hartman sees it. He walks up on him]
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Private Pyle, what are you trying to do to my beloved Corps?
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, I don't know, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: You are dumb, Private Pyle, but do you expect me to believe that you don't know left from right?
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Then you did that on purpose! You wanna be different!
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, no, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [slaps Pyle hard on the left hand side of his face] What side was that, Private Pyle?
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, left side, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [shouts] Are you sure, Private Pyle?
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [slaps him hard again, this time on right side of his face, knocking his hat off]
[shouts]
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: What side was that, Private Pyle?
Pvt. Pyle: [nearly in tears] Sir, right side, sir!
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Don't fuck with me again, Pyle! Pick up your fuckin' cover!
Pvt. Pyle: Sir, yes, sir!

Obligatory.
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Old 10-30-2008, 02:18 AM   #92
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Haha so much for a short thread!
When I get one of those words and then think of it, I'll post.

By the way, i love reading posts in this forum.
I know I don't post much, but I'm here.

Watching... :|
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Old 10-30-2008, 07:36 AM   #93
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Ablation. For some reason, whenever I NEED to use that word (talking to doctors, whatever), it never comes out. Which is frustrating. Because explaining the procedure takes ten TIMES as long as just using the stupid word.
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Old 10-30-2008, 11:09 AM   #94
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Haha so much for a short thread!
When I get one of those words and then think of it, I'll post.

By the way, i love reading posts in this forum.
I know I don't post much, but I'm here.

Watching... :|
Ok, now you've gone and spooked LJ. He has a thing about lurkers.

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Old 10-30-2008, 04:29 PM   #95
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Ablation. For some reason, whenever I NEED to use that word (talking to doctors, whatever), it never comes out. Which is frustrating. Because explaining the procedure takes ten TIMES as long as just using the stupid word.
Uterine ablatioin? yep. How does it come out, wrong or you just can't say it?
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Old 10-30-2008, 04:43 PM   #96
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I'm bad at knowing people's names when they're in Halloween costumes. I'll probably go around all night trying to figure out which ones are Case and Mac Tire.
I'll be the one in the bad wig.
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Old 10-31-2008, 08:02 AM   #97
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I just can't think of the flipping word. It's so frustrating. I mean, every day conversation (well... not that I talk about it every day, but you know what I mean), it's not an issue. I go to an ER and they ask when my last period was and I say "June" and they look at me funny and I go to explain... POOF. Word's gone.
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Old 10-31-2008, 08:32 AM   #98
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Old 10-31-2008, 08:45 AM   #99
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amenorrhoea?
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Old 10-31-2008, 10:19 AM   #100
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Uterine ablation.
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Old 10-31-2008, 10:24 AM   #101
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teh general oblation board?
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Old 11-04-2008, 10:22 PM   #102
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How about the word for using a noun as a verb? There is a technical word for it, and I found it in a dictionary en route to looking up something else, never used it, and have now completely forgotten it.
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Old 11-04-2008, 10:23 PM   #103
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Old 11-04-2008, 10:28 PM   #104
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Oh. One of my tutors has a cartoon about gerunds on his wall...
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Old 11-04-2008, 10:35 PM   #105
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Oh wait, I've just read more closely--a gerund is using a verb as a noun (ending in -ing.) Using a noun as a verb is "verbing," according to Calvin and Hobbes.
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