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30 Jun 2017, 8:59 pm

if all our federal representatives had an orgy together, would that be called a sex act of congress?



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01 Jul 2017, 1:47 am

if there was no such thing as time, rolex watches would be dirt cheap



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01 Jul 2017, 1:59 am

life is like a merry go round.
the both have horses in them.



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01 Jul 2017, 1:59 am

is an old poop made of poop?



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01 Jul 2017, 2:02 am

if airplanes had horns, there would be a far fewer mid air collisions



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01 Jul 2017, 2:28 am

thank god that dog's hind legs are not built back to front, or else they would kick s**t into their faces every time they defecated.



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01 Jul 2017, 3:24 am

why isn't [the radio program] "coast to coast" not instead called "radio to radio"?



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01 Jul 2017, 3:44 am

b9 wrote:
if airplanes had horns, there would be a far fewer mid air collisions


I was picturing airplanes with gigantic ram horns, and trying to figure out how on earth that would help matters. :P



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01 Jul 2017, 3:53 am

why can't somebody put toilets in cars? thataway, traffic jams wouldn't be so hairy.



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01 Jul 2017, 3:55 am

they keep going on about the greenhouse effect, but people keep building them.



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01 Jul 2017, 3:57 am

Ashariel wrote:
b9 wrote:
if airplanes had horns, there would be a far fewer mid air collisions


I was picturing airplanes with gigantic ram horns, and trying to figure out how on earth that would help matters. :P

that's why it's a dumb thing to say



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01 Jul 2017, 6:25 am

One of the dumbest things I heard a tennis commentator say:

"Like a mongoose on amphetamines!"



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01 Jul 2017, 6:33 am

b9 wrote:
Ashariel wrote:
b9 wrote:
if airplanes had horns, there would be a far fewer mid air collisions


I was picturing airplanes with gigantic ram horns, and trying to figure out how on earth that would help matters. :P

that's why it's a dumb thing to say


I thought that you meant like car horns (honk! honk!). Which is also dumb, but dumb in a more obvious way. Lol!



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01 Jul 2017, 6:39 am

i did mean car horns.
i thought she was referring to some "ram air powered very loud horns"
i did not know she took it in such a literal way and thought i meant horns like cattle have on them.



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01 Jul 2017, 7:14 am

IstominFan wrote:
One of the dumbest things I heard a tennis commentator say:

"Like a mongoose on amphetamines!"


The stereotype mongoose is Kipling's Rikki Tikki Tavi who famously, but fictionally out maneuvered and killed a king cobra snake.

So folks think of mongoose as being insanely fast agile animals. So one of them on speed would presumably be even more that way. So that kinda makes sense as a metaphor though it is based on a popular image that's not totally accurate.

One animal book I read as a child went out of its way to say "mongoose don't really subsist on a diet of cobras, and also cobras do often kill mongoose".

Sport casters say a lot dumber stuff than that.

One favorite phrase they used to constantly use was "they look like they could go one-on-one with the mafia!" to mean that "every member of that team is big and heavy muscled". Makes ZERO sense.

The mafia does employ big guys as low level thugs and goons. But the guys who run the mafia are all nondescript looking middle aged business man types like John Giotti, and Sam Giannconna. So my image of "the mafia" is that of guys who look like Robert Deniro who don't like to mess up their silk suits, and who would not last any longer in a wrestling or boxing ring than any other regular person. So to me the expression "one-on-one with the Mafia" just does not convey what its supposed to convey.

I wonder what "the kill ratio" is between mongooses and cobras.



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01 Jul 2017, 7:30 am

Remember this!

"Celestial mechanics" are the kind who specialize in fixing only: Chevy Novas, Ford Galaxies, Mercuries, Ford Tauruses, Saturns, and Subarus ( Subaru means "Pleiades" in Japanese).

So never use a celestial mechanic for any other car models!