ablestmage
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RE: Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It (full episode)

rosswood40 said: ablestmage said: Darn -- "neeser" beat me to it. I was going to say the Japanese have a gesture involving pulling down one lower eyel...

13 years ago
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RE: Two Shades of Grey

The difference in the two forms of grey varies on what is being described.. GREY generally describes an animate object, GRAY generally describes an in...

13 years ago
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RE: Like A Bad Penny (full episode)

We always called the kids described, as stoners. They had a hacky-sack club, they wore beat-up jeans x days in a row, a faded holey T-shirt bearing th...

13 years ago
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RE: Rock Scissors Paper (full episode)

On the Rock-Paper-Scissors (as I say it) discussion: in Japan, "Janken" is possibly the most widely recognized form, I suspect because of a widely-kno...

13 years ago
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RE: Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It (full episode)

Darn -- "neeser" beat me to it. I was going to say the Japanese have a gesture involving pulling down one lower eyelid by placing the index finger on ...

13 years ago
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RE: Bah Humblebrag (full episode)

As for a synonym of cheeky I would use on the sly to describe that type of person. Someone who stirs up trouble with the intention of humor, or being ...

13 years ago
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RE: Heads Up! It's a Meteor (full episode)

In reference to the Pliska puzzle -- the only single word I'm aware of that has three repeated letters in a row without hyphenation is Chewbacca's rac...

14 years ago
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RE: Why Do Auctioneers Talk So Fast? (full episode)

I enjoyed the classroom call-in segment you had.. any chance that could become a regular feature on the show? Maybe a different classroom from around ...

14 years ago
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RE: Why Do Girls Wear Pink? (full episode)

A possible other phrase that I just thought up, when reading my own post back to myself to edit it, is "using the entities" when one finds oneself nee...

14 years ago
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RE: Why Do Girls Wear Pink? (full episode)

Although I like the idea of left-leaning italics, to my knowledge, the use of /sarcasm after the phrase, or (/sarcasm) if the phrase is in the middle ...

14 years ago
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RE: The College Slang Party (full episode)

My favorite preposition-ended sentence has five of them at the end (so to speak).. "What did you bring that book that I wanted to be read to out of up...

14 years ago
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RE: Guess What (full episode)

The giant spider that Gollum is talking about, that he calls "She" is not necessarily a capitalization of the pronoun "she" but instead perhaps an abb...

14 years ago
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RE: Guess What (full episode)

Grant translates "see twenty six candles" improperly in French, he says "see thirty six candles." trente-six ("traunt-seese" is 36.. 26 is vingt-six (...

14 years ago
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RE: A Few Pickles Short of a Jar (full episode)

In an earlier episode, a caller named Todd said that people are forever calling him Scott. He wondered if there was some linguistic reason that people...

14 years ago
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RE: Cut to the Chase (full episode)

I'm with jopa123 on the guest's favorite slang — in fact I'm really surprised it wasn't mentioned in the summary so I thus traipsed right to the for...

14 years ago
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