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Old 09-13-2011, 08:38 AM
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Maybee you can consider getting a dog, or another pet, perhaps they will understand your angst.

Now you know why I am writing a book collecting " insidious euphemisms"

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Old 09-13-2011, 08:47 AM
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Now you know why I am writing a book collecting " insidious euphemisms"

Soon, on a Kindle near you...
Sounds like a plan.

I simply pull the compression release lever on my Bultaco 250..

Just listening to the air escape from the cylinder head does it for me.
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Old 09-14-2011, 11:00 AM
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Sounds like a plan.

I simply pull the compression release lever on my Bultaco 250..

Just listening to the air escape from the cylinder head does it for me.

Bultaco 250? Do they still make them? I saw lots of them when I raced cross country and motocross forty years ago, but I don't think I've heard it said in probably thirty years. Is it "vintage?" (read my post above about Gran Torino.)

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Old 09-14-2011, 11:12 AM
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Bultaco 250? Do they still make them? I saw lots of them when I raced cross country and motocross forty years ago, but I don't think I've heard it said in probably thirty years. Is it "vintage?" (read my post above about Gran Torino.)

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Dont know if the bike could be classifiede as Vintage Larry. It was originally bought/owned by a family member here. He used it for raceing TT(short track), 'Back-in-the day'. Along the way, lights -brakes-fenders were added to make it road worthy, and I aquired it not long after I arrived over-seas.
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When people call their car a '' classic '' when it was built in 1989. Not even close.

Mixing up the words '' then '' and '' than '' so that then now becomes a reference to more or less, and than become a reference to time or place.
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When people call their car a '' classic '' when it was built in 1989. Not even close.

Mixing up the words '' then '' and '' than '' so that then now becomes a reference to more or less, and than become a reference to time or place.

Yes, in the movie "Gran Torino" his dumb grand daughter called his 72 model car "vintage." I graduated from high school 5 years before that car was built!
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I'm pretty sick of hearing "it is what it is".
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I'm pretty sick of hearing "it is what it is".
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And, the next time I see or hear the word "synergy", I'm going "postal" on someone.


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X2 !!

And, the next time I see or hear the word "synergy", I'm going "postal" on someone.


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X2 !!

And, the next time I see or hear the word "synergy", I'm going "postal" on someone.


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I'm pretty sick of hearing "it is what it is".
It is what it is.
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"Across the World" really gets me! Have they gone back to believing that the world is flat?
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I wonder how many words others of you feel the same about. Some? Few? Many?


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Here is my word:

LIKE

Apparently, every 20 year old who has a degree has graduated from the "Like U" where they teach you that you absolutely must insert the word "like" into every sentence..........preferably more than once.

The use of the word is incessant..........sometimes they can state it 50 times in the span of five minutes.


It's "like" a cancer on society.........those who cannot speak need the word "like" to make a point.

"You know" is a very close second.
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