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Old 07-05-2016, 11:25 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Retriever View Post
Yikes!
First came self-driving cars.
Now, we have cars that are apparently expressing defiance!


I'll turn this car around! I'll do it!

 
Old 07-05-2016, 01:24 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Default The handyman's secret ...

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Originally Posted by Retriever View Post
Yikes!
First came self-driving cars.
Now, we have cars that are apparently expressing defiance!

Well, sure. If it was on a (self-?) expressway, then that makes a lot of sense. If you don't want your car popping off @ you like that, make sure it has a good muffler. (Or you could give it a shot of local - that'll shut it up too. Or make it yield, or drive it through a hospital or school or church zone - they hate that. Then maybe it'll give you the silent treatment ...)
 
Old 07-05-2016, 05:30 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Agreed and the new of today why not try to distract the subject.

Uh, yeah, whatever you say, boss!
 
Old 07-06-2016, 09:42 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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A headline in the sports section of today's newspaper:

Durant to join Warriers ...

That's good news - I thought there might have been too many barriors in the way, but I needn't have warried.
 
Old 07-06-2016, 10:27 AM
 
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With his high paid writers he must higher for his speeches -- I'm surprised by the grammatically incorrect - "so good".

I can't wait till Trump makes USA great great again like WWE.

Pretty bias if you ask me.
 
Old 07-06-2016, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Originally Posted by Retriever View Post
when do you veggie garen?

Inquiring minds want to know!
Rachel Ray Syndrome. I am going to put on my jammies and make a sammie.
 
Old 07-06-2016, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Originally Posted by Nicci6Squirrels View Post
That defiantly was the car i seen!!!
Christine?
 
Old 07-06-2016, 03:29 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Default My daddy was the family bassman

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Originally Posted by Gerania View Post
Christine?
Ha, good one!




♪ ♫ ♯


They call me Baby Driver
And once upon a pair of wheels
Hit the road and I'm gone ah
What's my number
I wonder how your engine feels


♫ ♯ ♪
 
Old 07-06-2016, 03:36 PM
 
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From another forum on CD:

I was just gasping at straws for a reason...

I thought it was just a typo, but she typed it twice.
 
Old 07-06-2016, 03:41 PM
 
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Originally Posted by puginabug View Post

I was just gasping at straws...

Hmmm...perhaps she aspirated a drinking straw.
No, that explanation would be...too logical.

As we see so often nowadays, this is a case of somebody using an expression without having any concept of its actual meaning, and the probable cause is...a lack of reading...

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