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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #25 on: October 14, 2009, 07:12:24 PM »
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #26 on: October 16, 2009, 04:12:23 PM »
Shiver me timbers.


 I never did know what that meant.
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #27 on: October 16, 2009, 06:15:56 PM »
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #28 on: October 16, 2009, 06:26:27 PM »
"The apple of my eye"
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #29 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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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #30 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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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #31 on: October 17, 2009, 12:32:55 PM »
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #32 on: October 17, 2009, 02:06:50 PM »
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #33 on: October 17, 2009, 03:08:24 PM »
Sony as a market leader
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #34 on: October 17, 2009, 03:21:26 PM »
Videogame Journalism


it's actually Videogame Punditry now.
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #35 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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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #36 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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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #37 on: October 18, 2009, 09:51:24 PM »
Jon Lindemann, Director of Nintendo World Report
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #38 on: October 18, 2009, 10:33:48 PM »
Dial up.
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #39 on: October 18, 2009, 11:06:04 PM »
"Keep fucking that chicken."

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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #40 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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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #41 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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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #42 on: October 19, 2009, 02:51:01 AM »
Great balls of fire.
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Re: Old sayings that don't make sense today
« Reply #43 on: October 19, 2009, 08:37:15 AM »
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Quote from: Caterkiller on June 21, 2013, 06:36:29 PM
February 07, 2003, 02:35:52 PM
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