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Was the first post about plurastrophes?
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Paucle wrote:Was the first post about plurastrophes?
No, but when someone called the OP on it, she responded, "You guy's are so mean."

Anyone see the latest Mercedes ad where John Hamm intones, "... and less doors"?
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Vanya wrote:
Paucle wrote:Was the first post about plurastrophes?
No, but when someone called the OP on it, she responded, "You guy's are so mean."

Anyone see the latest Mercedes ad where John Hamm intones, "... and less doors"?
Maybe he means less Doors; too lowbrow, too American, too oldies for Mercedes.

Yesterday at the produce market, I bought 'Himalayan sea salt.' Is this some euphemism like 'rocky mountain oysters?' Guess I'll see...
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bomtr wrote:
Vanya wrote:
Paucle wrote:Was the first post about plurastrophes?
No, but when someone called the OP on it, she responded, "You guy's are so mean."

Anyone see the latest Mercedes ad where John Hamm intones, "... and less doors"?
Maybe he means less Doors; too lowbrow, too American, too oldies for Mercedes.

Yesterday at the produce market, I bought 'Himalayan sea salt.' Is this some euphemism like 'rocky mountain oysters?' Guess I'll see...
No, no, no, he was slyly alluding to Les Dors, the (in)famous open cockpit racer and jazz saxophonist. Silly wabbit! :lol:
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Vanya wrote:
Paucle wrote:Was the first post about plurastrophes?
No, but when someone called the OP on it, she responded, "You guy's are so mean."
I was inclined to ask whether someone was jerking someone's chain. My guess, however, is that the OP was being serious.

Worse the pity.
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John Boy wrote:
Vanya wrote:
Paucle wrote:Was the first post about plurastrophes?
No, but when someone called the OP on it, she responded, "You guy's are so mean."
I was inclined to ask whether someone was jerking someone's chain. My guess, however, is that the OP was being serious.

Worse the pity.
I'm certain she was joking. She just made a mistake with the thread title (which you can't change).
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Ferkrissakes, Wikipedia, get that ugly woman off my screen.
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Vanya wrote:Ferkrissakes, Wikipedia, get that ugly woman off my screen.
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Michelle Bachmann gets it wrong on Facebook: "Seventy years ago today, we lost over 2,300 Americans in the horrific attacks on Pearl Harbor. May we remember the victims from that “date of infamy” and their families."
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Vanya wrote:Michelle Bachmann gets it wrong on Facebook: "Seventy years ago today, we lost over 2,300 Americans in the horrific attacks on Pearl Harbor. May we remember the victims from that “date of infamy” and their families."
Ok, I'm gonna need a crib sheet on this one; I'm not finding anything laughably wrong... best I can do is maybe "victims from" should be "victims of"?
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The correct quote is "date which will live in infamy" and it's known as the Day of Infamy speech.
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Vanya wrote:The correct quote is "date which will live in infamy" and it's known as the Day of Infamy speech.
Ahh, I think, though, she would rather not take verbatim from FDR. Probably pained her enough to allude to him. :lol:
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Volante wrote:
Vanya wrote:The correct quote is "date which will live in infamy" and it's known as the Day of Infamy speech.
Ahh, I think, though, she would rather not take verbatim from FDR. Probably pained her enough to allude to him. :lol:
She wasn't alluding to FDR. She was alluding to Sen. John Blutarsky.

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What's really sad is "Day of Imfamy" gets 114,000 google hits.
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I just heard Obama say "attorney generals" on TV talking about the Wall Street watchdog nominee the Senate blocked.
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Bamaman wrote:I just heard Obama say "attorney generals" on TV talking about the Wall Street watchdog nominee the Senate blocked.
That's not nearly as bad as Marine "Corpse."
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Yeah, I know, this thread is mostly language peeves, but it's worth putting this here if only to resurrect this most deserving thread from a fate better than what it's been suffering (a languishment on page 5!)

In a newspaper today (well, Jan. 26, it's past midnight now), I was reading an article about Dave Coulier coming to do his comedy routine here soon. See if you can spot what the author's favourite mistake is (and why the editor needs to be shot for blatantly missing so many of them):
[Quoting Coulier]"I love the George Carlin's and the Chris Rock's of the world, but that's just not my style."

[cut to later in the article where Coulier just finishes talking about a bit he does where he imitates Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein (aka Super Dave Osborne), who are brothers, having a conversation.]

Coulier's impersonates the sibling's perfectly.
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I think I know what Vanya's next 13 avatars are ...
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