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Old 10-03-2015, 11:23 AM
 
Location: I'm around here someplace :)
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Originally Posted by Nicci6Squirrels View Post
With all do respect..........

Get all this other stuff going on savored institution that means something.

Went to a fridsy fidh fry there abit ago..Have had carryouta there 20 yrd sgo and cant believe how they have went downhill. Beatiful place, how can we help to reestablish this beatiful proprty ? . We once had a bestiful family wedding there, with hordevours the beatiful porch.
Woooo, I guess this shows some people should never be allowed near a pen, pencil, keyboard, or texting device!!!

 
Old 10-03-2015, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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My friends know how absolutely crazy I am and how much I get my knickers in a twist over spelling, and yet one of them just texted me, "How was you're evening?" What do I do with that???
It could be auto correct gone mad.

I just got a new phone a couple of weeks ago. The auto correct feature is possessed by demons. If I used a word that has an apostrophe, it adds another word to the letters after the apostrophe. So, for example, I type "I've" and "I'very" shows up. I had to remove "I'very" from the "learned words" list, but it didn't learn it from ME. It does this with every word that has an apostrophe in it. "You'll" became "You'lol". Anything ended with an apostrophe and then an "s" gets "said" at the end. I could probably find about ten other examples.
 
Old 10-03-2015, 10:54 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Originally Posted by Nicci6Squirrels View Post
Break additions to processed foods, detox toxic ick reset your metabolism, loose 5 to 20 pounds in 10 days.
The Papa, the Mama, the son, the daughter! Addition. Addition!

Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match. Find me a find, catch me a catch...
 
Old 10-04-2015, 08:08 AM
 
Location: NC
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I don't often like to laugh at others errors of understanding, but this was too funny to ignore.

"When I sell I get rid of the housing expense AND I get all the money I paid during ownership PLUS a handsome amount for appreciation. If you rent you got butkiss."

I am certain, from the tone of this person's responses in the thread, that he thinks the word is related to kissing his butt.

bupkis: definition of bupkis in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)
 
Old 10-04-2015, 09:41 AM
 
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Originally Posted by luv4horses View Post
If you rent you got butkiss."

I am certain, from the tone of this person's responses in the thread, that he thinks the word is related to kissing his butt.

bupkis: definition of bupkis in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)
One of my pet peeves is when people sprinkle their conversation with Yiddish words in the belief that they are being...oh, so witty...but they mispronounce those words. The one that I hear most often, and which grates on my nerves more than others, is the mispronunciation of kibitzer (one who gives unwanted advice and/or jokes a lot, to the annoyance of others).

The correct pronunciation is KIB-it-zer, but probably 99% of the non-Jewish population thinks that it is pronounced kib-IT-zer.

 
Old 10-04-2015, 09:50 AM
 
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If you wanna die with your pants down, that's your prerogative. - a comment on a Time magazine facebook article

*perogative. - someone thinking that they're "correcting" the spelling of the poster.
 
Old 10-04-2015, 09:59 AM
 
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What is a man post to do?
 
Old 10-04-2015, 10:05 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Nicci6Squirrels View Post
What is a man post to do?
I guess that is the modern variant on one that I have seen a few times over the years, namely...
What am I aposta do?

 
Old 10-04-2015, 10:32 AM
 
Location: USA
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"I have watched one criminal trial and recently severed as a juror in another."
 
Old 10-04-2015, 11:27 AM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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... going to hell and a hand basket ...
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