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chilcutt · #16 09-13-2011, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by strelnik

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.

pj67coll · #17 09-13-2011, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by dkveuro

Like this ...a definition of INFERS/INFER like? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/infers

BTW..How's come you be writin' loik a ol' Norfoork fella? You frum loik, England or summert ?

Nope. Just remembering the hilarious interrogation scene from "Wilt" when the police man askes Wilt "... are you inferring that I'm stupid?" to which Wilt replies, "... no I'm implying that you're stupid, you're inferring it!.

Never pass up the opportunity to work that into something. BTW I agree with much of what you wrote. Lazy and stupid speech is irritating in the extreme. That's one of the reasons I like listening to folks like Chris Hitchens whose command of the language is something wonderous.

- Peter.

Diesel4me · #18 09-13-2011, 01:04 PM

I'm pretty sick of hearing "it is what it is".

WVOtoGO · #19 09-13-2011, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel4me

I'm pretty sick of hearing "it is what it is".

X2 !!

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

- Shelby

aklim · #20 09-13-2011, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Diesel4me

I'm pretty sick of hearing "it is what it is".

It is what it is.

aklim · #21 09-13-2011, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by WVOtoGO

X2 !!

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

- Shelby

I do like sin-ergy. Energy to sin.

Lead me not into temptation for I shall surely find it myself.

iwrock · #22 09-13-2011, 04:57 PM

It is life.

The Clk Man · #23 09-13-2011, 05:48 PM

$hit happens?

t walgamuth · #24 09-13-2011, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by WVOtoGO

X2 !!

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

- Shelby

x3!

Benz Dr. · #25 09-13-2011, 09:53 PM

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.

Air&Road · #26 09-14-2011, 10:56 AM

"Across the World" really gets me! Have they gone back to believing that the world is flat?

Air&Road · #27 09-14-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Benz Dr.

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!

Air&Road · #28 09-14-2011, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by chilcutt

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.)

Larry

Air&Road · #29 09-14-2011, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I find the use of "issue" as a euphonism for "problem" to be tedious, though I have started using it to conform to what people now see as the norm.

I also find "at the end of the day" tedious at best, though it is not used nearly as much as issue.

Using "issue" instead of "problem" sounds to me like just more political correctness. You know, sort of like "Undocumented Workers" instead of "Illegal Immigrants." Illegal, even though it is true and correct, just doesn't sound nice.

We have become a society that won't face facts.

Larry

chilcutt · #30 09-14-2011, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by LarryBible

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.)

Larry

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.