10-24-2011, 12:00 PM | #1786 |
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It's a play on a word you might not have come across. To be flabbergasted is to be astonished or surprised.
The play on words is usually done as "Never had my flabber been so gasted". But either works..... if you know the word flabbergasted. |
10-24-2011, 01:49 PM | #1787 |
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10-24-2011, 06:12 PM | #1788 | |
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Edit: Just noticed that your jacket is now green to match your new status! Nice!! |
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10-24-2011, 11:14 PM | #1789 | |
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(I looked up the word "flabber" and "gast"...) |
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10-24-2011, 11:30 PM | #1790 |
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10-24-2011, 11:32 PM | #1791 |
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Er, I meant I had looked up both words, then didn't figure out what they mean, so I post "IDK" and Paul helped...
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10-25-2011, 08:41 AM | #1792 |
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.....A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
..........— John Updike (1932-2009), American novelist and short-story writer. "Confessions of a Wild Bore" from Assorted Prose of Updike (pub. by Knopf; April 12, 1965). |
10-25-2011, 12:09 PM | #1793 |
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(You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.) |
10-26-2011, 07:11 AM | #1794 |
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"Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing a man's car, that's larceny."
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10-26-2011, 07:40 AM | #1795 |
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A few offerings....
" It's only rock 'n roll... "
and " That's all she wrote" and, finally, from the late great Ronnie Scott, to a heckler, who was ruining an otherwise terrific show I'll never forget...... " Is that your own brain, or are you just running it in for an idiot.." Ah, bliss.... |
10-26-2011, 09:41 AM | #1796 | |
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