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05-30-2007, 03:06 AM
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| Strange things to ponder
If you mixed vodka with orange juice and milk of magnesia, would you get a Philip's Screwdriver? Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? Why do women wear evening gowns to nightclubs? Shouldn't they be wearing night gowns? If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with. When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say? Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist? Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible? Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one? "I am " is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do " is the longest sentence? If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed? Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"? Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure? If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?"  |
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05-30-2007, 04:12 AM
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__________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~  Last edited by Ann; 07-03-2007 at 04:56 AM. | |
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05-31-2007, 09:16 AM
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LOL - my net nanny made me put in the password to read this thread because of "Intimate Apparel." Ann, whodathunk you're pic was "intimate" LOL.
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05-31-2007, 07:07 PM
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It only *feels* like it's the longest, cuz it's a life sentence!   Shalom!
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05-31-2007, 07:18 PM
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__________________ “Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~Winnie the Pooh~ | |
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06-01-2007, 01:56 AM
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Why do we park on driveways, but drive on parkways? Exactly how big is "gi-normous"? How many zeros are in a "gazillion"? At what point does "many" turn into "lots"? At what point does "lots" turn into "lots and lots"? A thermos keeps hot things hot and cold things cold -- how does it know which one to do? When someone says, "I don't know", they haven't really told us anything, yet we know exactly what they mean. If Americans are from America, then shouldn't Canadians be from Canadia?
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06-01-2007, 02:01 AM
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If a mind has no actual physical substance, then how can it have such an impact on the physical world? For that matter, how can we "hold" a thought? And how much does it weigh? We know that some thoughts are light while others can be quite heavy indeed.
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06-01-2007, 02:07 AM
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Just because you can't point to an emotion doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It may take a mind to feel pain, but simple mindlessness is enough to inflict it.
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06-03-2007, 04:18 AM
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| Out of whack!
QUOTED by Doug. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? I laughed at this. In Australia, some men here "give something a whack to try and fix it" for example they might whack something mechanical and hope its fixed. If they dont fix it, its out of whack. |
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06-04-2007, 04:42 PM
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| Illegitimi Non Carborundum Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Old Home Terra
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"Out of whack" is like saying a "bad calibration" sort of thing. If you smack it just right and the picture comes back crystal clear, then you says its "back in whack" again, or "its been whacked back". The "whack" essentially identifies the process to carry out on the device. The "out of..." and "back into..." are the results of the most recent time the process was attempted. This public service announcement brought to you by... 
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06-29-2007, 09:31 AM
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soooooooooooooooooooooooooo if a wiseguy is "whacked" can he then be "back in whack" again or unwhacked or dewhacked????????????????????????????????????????? ?????? once he is "whacked" can he, essentially, be "re-whacked" |
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07-01-2007, 10:57 AM
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| If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?" and why aren't people from denmark called "pineapples" as in Dole's ok, it's quite a bit of a stretch but sunday in new york |
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07-09-2007, 07:24 PM
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aren't Dole's bananas? Anyway, this thread has been absolutely hillarious. Thank you.
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