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Posted: Jun 27, 2022 - 7:43am

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Posted: Apr 10, 2020 - 5:37am



 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


What's your position on "threepeat"?

Nevermind. I could care less.


 




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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 9:36pm



 Red_Dragon wrote:


 Proclivities wrote:

I don't want to go into why "back-to-back" (which used to mean "crowded" or "cramped") came to mean "consecutive", but I blame Joe Buck for popularizing it.
 

You have my support.
 

Joe Buck is the root of all evil. True story. 
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 9:09pm

 Proclivities wrote:


 AliGator wrote:

{#Lol}

You're worse than I am!  {#Wave}{#Propeller}
 
Words matter (to a nerd like me)
 

 
I totally agree. But you taught me something downthread, and I always appreciate new info! 
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 8:58pm



 AliGator wrote:

{#Lol}


You're worse than I am! 
{#Wave}
{#Propeller}
 
Words matter (to a nerd like me)
 



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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 8:49pm



 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

 

What's your position on "threepeat"?

Nevermind. I could care less.


 

That makes some sort of literal sense at least.  Sports terminology gets a pass in a way - it doesn't have to be "correct".
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 8:46pm



 Proclivities wrote:


 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


 Proclivities wrote:


 Red_Dragon wrote:
meteoric rise.... don't meteors fall?
 
God, it's f*%king infuriating to me - even worse than "ratchet up".  I've been trying to discourage people from using that cliche for years - I've given up.  In addition, it means whatever is being referred to would have a short life span and it's usually used to refer to some celebrity who would later go on to enjoy massive success.  Most people who use it probably don't even know they're referring to a heavenly body.
  
 




 
I don't want to go into why "back-to-back" (which used to mean "crowded" or "cramped") came to mean "consecutive", but I blame Joe Buck for popularizing it.
 

What's your position on "threepeat"?

Nevermind. I could care less.


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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 8:45pm

 Proclivities wrote:


 Red_Dragon wrote:
meteoric rise.... don't meteors fall?
 
God, it's f*%king infuriating to me - even worse than "ratchet up".  I've been trying to discourage people from using that cliche for years - I've given up.  In addition, it means whatever is being referred to would have a short life span and it's usually used to refer to some celebrity who would later go on to enjoy massive success.  Most people who use it probably don't even know they're referring to a heavenly body.
 
{#Lol}

You're worse than I am!  {#Wave}{#Propeller}
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 8:34pm



 Proclivities wrote:

I don't want to go into why "back-to-back" (which used to mean "crowded" or "cramped") came to mean "consecutive", but I blame Joe Buck for popularizing it.
 

You have my support.
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 8:26pm



 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


 Proclivities wrote:


 Red_Dragon wrote:
meteoric rise.... don't meteors fall?
 
God, it's f*%king infuriating to me - even worse than "ratchet up".  I've been trying to discourage people from using that cliche for years - I've given up.  In addition, it means whatever is being referred to would have a short life span and it's usually used to refer to some celebrity who would later go on to enjoy massive success.  Most people who use it probably don't even know they're referring to a heavenly body.
  
 




 
I don't want to go into why "back-to-back" (which used to mean "crowded" or "cramped") came to mean "consecutive", but I blame Joe Buck for popularizing it.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 8:19pm



 Proclivities wrote:


 Red_Dragon wrote:
meteoric rise.... don't meteors fall?
 
God, it's f*%king infuriating to me - even worse than "ratchet up".  I've been trying to discourage people from using that cliche for years - I've given up.  In addition, it means whatever is being referred to would have a short life span and it's usually used to refer to some celebrity who would later go on to enjoy massive success.  Most people who use it probably don't even know they're referring to a heavenly body.
  
 




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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 8:04pm



 Proclivities wrote:

God, it's f*%king infuriating to me.  I've been trying to discourage people from using that cliche for years - I've given up.  In addition, it means whatever is being referred to would have a short life span and it's usually used to refer to some celebrity who would later go on to enjoy massive success.  Most people who use it probably don't even know they're referring to a heavenly body.
 

Thank you.
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 7:57pm



 Red_Dragon wrote:
meteoric rise.... don't meteors fall?
 
God, it's f*%king infuriating to me - even worse than "ratchet up".  I've been trying to discourage people from using that cliche for years - I've given up.  In addition, it means whatever is being referred to would have a short life span and it's usually used to refer to some celebrity who would later go on to enjoy massive success.  Most people who use it probably don't even know they're referring to a heavenly body.
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 5:07pm



 haresfur wrote:


 
Originally meteoric water, anyway.

 

What are all those people doing so close together!
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 4:58pm



 Red_Dragon wrote:
meteoric rise.... don't meteors fall?
 
Originally meteoric water, anyway.

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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 4:51pm



 Red_Dragon wrote:
meteoric rise.... don't meteors fall?
 

:lol: I think the gist is that they move really fast. And burn out.
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Posted: Apr 9, 2020 - 3:02pm

meteoric rise.... don't meteors fall?
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Posted: Aug 24, 2017 - 7:17am

Dude!

“. . . a new and valuable addition has been made to the slang vocabulary. … We refer to the term “Dood.” For a correct definition of the expression the anxious inquirer has only to turn to the tight-trousered, brief-coated, eye-glassed, fancy-vested, sharp-toes shod, vapid youth who abounds in the Metropolis at present."

Sounds like a modern-day "hipster".
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Posted: Feb 17, 2017 - 3:05pm

republican and democrat
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Posted: Feb 17, 2017 - 11:38am

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