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Old 04-23-2015, 07:39 AM
 
Location: Paradise
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I was trying to think of that song! My mom used to sing it to us.

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Mares eat oats and does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy.

 
Old 04-23-2015, 12:43 PM
 
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"1 grand car payment is obsered."

I was mystified by this one...until I figured out that "obsered" was supposed to be "absurd".
Talk about absurdities...

 
Old 04-23-2015, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Salt Lake City
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Originally Posted by Everdeen View Post
I was trying to think of that song! My mom used to sing it to us.
So did my mom! She was born in 1913. How about yours?
 
Old 04-23-2015, 03:27 PM
 
Location: Paradise
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So did my mom! She was born in 1913. How about yours?
1930

A kid'll eat ivy dew, wouldn't you-u?
 
Old 04-23-2015, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Default Mairzy Doats

Composed in 1943

Mairzy Doats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZGC7tsc7M
 
Old 04-23-2015, 10:19 PM
 
Location: Heart of Dixie
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"...Make sure you raise the cat from a kitten..."

Yeah, cats raised from a chick tend to be very timid.
 
Old 04-24-2015, 05:49 AM
 
Location: City Data Land
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"There's no difference between someone who takes vicodin from a pharmacy and someone who gets heroine from a dealer."

I'd be skeptical about the quality of archetypal heroines a person would meet at a dealers home
 
Old 04-24-2015, 06:59 AM
 
Location: Paradise
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Thank you for that! I never knew the name of the song. From a writing standpoint, it's quite imaginative.

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Originally Posted by Scooby Snacks View Post
"There's no difference between someone who takes vicodin from a pharmacy and someone who gets heroine from a dealer."

I'd be skeptical about the quality of archetypal heroines a person would meet at a dealers home
I want to know when street drugs became gender specific.
 
Old 04-24-2015, 08:40 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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You reap what you sew.
 
Old 04-24-2015, 10:28 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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You reap what you sew.
And you sew what you rip.
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