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You always hear the phrase "disgruntled" and "burglar" but how often do you hear people say. "He was a gruntled worker."? Or "Someone broke into my house and burgled my stuff."? Thoughts?
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mid 17th cent.: from dis- (as an intensifier) + dialect gruntle ‘utter little grunts,’ from grunt, So in this case the prefix dis does not mean opposite.
As for Burglar...its roots are French and very loosely means "someone who pillages". So you could say...someone pillaged my house. :)Last edited by nd32479; 03-27-2014, 04:23 PM.ND
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...So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
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But I have one for you....why is a "near miss" a good thing. If I nearly hit something, it means I missed it. So if I have a near miss, why doesn't that mean I hit it?
Or...how do blind people know when they are done wiping their butts?Last edited by Deslock; 03-27-2014, 10:50 PM.ND
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...So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
William C. Bryant
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I knew I'd get a lesson for that question lol. And ND, I have asked that same question about blind people and wiping. Mui and I had that discussion in the shout box last week. Oh here's another one: new and improved. How can something be both new and improved? New: never existed before. Improved: previously existed but now better.Comment
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Well, in marketing class, I learned that there are "degrees of new," meaning that something can be a brand new product, but is copied off of its previous generations (like iPhone 5, which we debated to be about maybe 30% new). So I guess that would be the "New and Improved" part?Comment
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Wow.
Just. WOW. and so very true at the same time.
And I feel the same way about the damnable Shitmas song "Rockin' around the Christmas tree"
I wince every time they sing "the new old fashioned way".
Just how in the Hell can it be new, and old fashioned ?.
It just makes me cringe.Last edited by Deslock; 12-13-2014, 12:10 AM.
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Lmao only on PS4.
& then it sells billions because perverts will use other things rather than their hands....sigpic
"A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - CanibusComment
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Yes, JDEZ, that was the joke :P <3Comment
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"A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - CanibusComment
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I'd like to lick a lemon lollipop.Comment
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Lmaosigpic
"A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - CanibusComment
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OMG JDEZ. LOL where can I buy a case of that?Comment
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Amazon i think XDsigpic
"A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - CanibusComment
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Nah, I'm not a big lemon fan. Thanks though lolComment
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