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Title: Old sayings that don't make sense today
Post by: Stogi on October 14, 2009, 12:35:27 AM
"Throw it out with the bath water"
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Post by: that Baby guy on October 14, 2009, 12:37:22 AM
Bob's your uncle?
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Post by: Stogi on October 14, 2009, 12:40:15 AM
FAIL that never made sense...well unless bob is your uncle.

"The cat's in the bag"
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Post by: Khushrenada on October 14, 2009, 01:44:07 AM
The cheque's in the mail
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Post by: that Baby guy on October 14, 2009, 01:47:54 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_your_uncle
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Post by: Stogi on October 14, 2009, 01:53:32 AM
Ok you win. That doesn't make any sense and I don't think it ever did.
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Post by: Khushrenada on October 14, 2009, 02:09:57 AM
23 Skidoo
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on October 14, 2009, 02:11:31 AM
Buttered Camels
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Post by: Stogi on October 14, 2009, 02:20:15 AM
to boot
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 14, 2009, 02:21:43 AM
It's so good, makes me wanna slap my momma!
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Post by: Stogi on October 14, 2009, 02:24:43 AM
passing with flying colors
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 14, 2009, 02:28:14 AM
It's a turn of phrase
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Post by: Dasmos on October 14, 2009, 02:29:39 AM
teasing the weasel
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Post by: Stogi on October 14, 2009, 02:30:11 AM
cut and run
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 14, 2009, 02:31:30 AM
i was half expecting....
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Post by: Stogi on October 14, 2009, 02:50:12 AM
peeping tom
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Post by: EasyCure on October 14, 2009, 09:06:03 AM
shiver me timbers
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 14, 2009, 09:24:20 AM
Suck my dick.
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Post by: EasyCure on October 14, 2009, 09:37:31 AM
GAD ZUKES! (sp?)
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 14, 2009, 03:44:44 PM
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!
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Post by: vudu on October 14, 2009, 03:47:26 PM
Women's lib.
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Post by: Mop it up on October 14, 2009, 06:17:50 PM
Chew the fat.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on October 14, 2009, 06:34:43 PM
Nintendo's in last place
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Post by: Mop it up on October 14, 2009, 06:39:52 PM
Hardcore gamers.
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Post by: broodwars on October 14, 2009, 06:41:21 PM
"It's the cat's meow!"

"Nut Bunnies!" (of course, that was never meant to make sense)
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Post by: EasyCure on October 14, 2009, 07:12:24 PM
OH HAMBURGERS!
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 16, 2009, 04:12:23 PM
Shiver me timbers.


 I never did know what that meant.
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Post by: Plugabugz on October 16, 2009, 06:15:56 PM
Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on October 14, 2009, 02:11:31 AM
Buttered Camels

OH NO YOU DONT.
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Post by: Stratos on October 16, 2009, 06:26:27 PM
"The apple of my eye"
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Post by: Stogi on October 16, 2009, 07:06:02 PM
^that one's from the bible right? God said that to Adam, no?
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Post by: Stratos on October 17, 2009, 05:17:52 AM
Quote from: Kashogi Y. Stogi on October 16, 2009, 07:06:02 PM
^that one's from the bible right? God said that to Adam, no?

LOL, it's also in a song or two. I recall a song where someone was singing about how his daughter was the apple of his eye.

Ironically, that phrase is not how it originally went. They changed it to something more familiar to old English speakers from the Hebrew because the original phrase made no sense to people. And here it is happening again where the 'new' phrase makes no sense to people nowadays. I love language!  ;D

The original phrase in Hebrew was more akin to "the little man in God's eye". Think of getting inches away from another person's face and then looking in their eyes to see your reflection in their eyes. The reflection is know as the 'little man'. Weird, huh? Languages are always evolving and changing. Hence we get to make crazy threads like this with a lot of phrases that mean close to nothing to us today. It's like the circle of life for words!

/ weird language rant  :rolleyes:
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Post by: EasyCure on October 17, 2009, 12:32:55 PM
humbug
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 17, 2009, 02:06:50 PM
PS3 exclusive
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Post by: nickmitch on October 17, 2009, 03:08:24 PM
Sony as a market leader
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 17, 2009, 03:21:26 PM
Videogame Journalism


it's actually Videogame Punditry now.
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Post by: ThePerm on October 18, 2009, 05:41:14 AM
opportunity knocks

oppertunity is more likely to send an e-mail that wlll end up being deleted because its swimming with Nigerian scams and spam.
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Post by: nickmitch on October 18, 2009, 08:24:40 PM
Quote from: ThePerm on October 18, 2009, 05:41:14 AM
opportunity knocks

oppertunity is more likely to send an e-mail that wlll end up being deleted because its swimming with Nigerian scams and spam.

Life texts me now.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on October 18, 2009, 09:51:24 PM
Jon Lindemann, Director of Nintendo World Report
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Post by: Mop it up on October 18, 2009, 10:33:48 PM
Dial up.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 18, 2009, 11:06:04 PM
"Keep fucking that chicken."

Billy Berghammer, Director of Planet GameCube
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on October 18, 2009, 11:12:30 PM
Quote from: Brandogg on October 18, 2009, 11:06:04 PM
"Keep fucking that chicken."

But that makes perfect sense, depending on who you're saying it to.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on October 19, 2009, 01:09:58 AM
The dude in your avatar looks like he might be working a chicken near the end of the dance, actually. He's eating it while he fucks it, brilliant. I'm gonna go **** a cheeseburger now.
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Post by: Stratos on October 19, 2009, 02:51:01 AM
Great balls of fire.
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Post by: EasyCure on October 19, 2009, 08:37:15 AM
phat