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Old 06-26-2014, 01:39 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Originally Posted by Fox Terrier View Post
From the POC forum (where else):


The court case says that congress has the power to come in bang a gabble, and wait 15 seconds and bang it again to open and close a session of congress


Yes, & who can forget that classic, The House of Seven Gabbles? Or even Little Orphant Annie -
An' the Gabble-uns 'at gits you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!

Or the gabble-in tapestries of long repute?

Good times, indeed, indeed!

 
Old 06-26-2014, 05:37 PM
 
Location: USA
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The court case says that congress has the power to come in bang a gabble, and wait 15 seconds and bang it again to open and close a session of congress
For the turkeys in the chamber it's gabble gabble here, gabble gabble there, here gabble, there gabble, everywhere a gabble gabble.
 
Old 06-27-2014, 09:56 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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(From Health and Wellness forum)

"Had my first lithography this morning for a 7mms stone . . . "
 
Old 06-27-2014, 10:03 AM
 
Location: USA
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"Had my first lithography this morning for a 7mms stone . . . "
I've made etchings, but, not lithographs, although I think my etching professor also taught lithography at one time.
 
Old 06-27-2014, 10:04 AM
 
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not being allowed to be a child; being striped of her identity
Those stripings will do you in.
 
Old 06-27-2014, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Florida
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"for sale......vintage rod iron table with glass top."
 
Old 06-27-2014, 11:49 AM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by old_cold View Post
"for sale......vintage rod iron table with glass top."
All of these mispellings make me wonder what it would be like to actually have a conversation with people who obviously spell phonetically.

Would their spoken words sound more like a foreign language?
 
Old 06-27-2014, 12:26 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Originally Posted by Fox Terrier View Post
All of these mispellings make me wonder what it would be like to actually have a conversation with people who obviously spell phonetically.

Would their spoken words sound more like a foreign language?
Unless the speaker was enunciating very carefully, I doubt many would notice.

Some of these posts often remind me of...............
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe

People | Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
 
Old 06-27-2014, 12:59 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Say it ain't so...!
I wonder how they were packaged for delivery?



I heard that Cheerios received "hate male" over their commercials,
 
Old 06-27-2014, 01:29 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I recalled this one today, which I thought was worth sharing. I actually heard this exchange, in a courtroom in Canada.

Bailiff: May I remind you to please address the magistrate properly.
Defendant: My apologizes, Your Majesty.
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