I have been trying to peg down where I used to hear this term used as a synonym to stick or glue things. It was used in the nautical world in which I ...
Hi to you too, I knew you would come back sooner or later. The bar is just not the same anymore, with all of the old fuddy duddies looking at their em...
I never look at the dates, it takes the fun out of things. :rofl: I had not seen the thread before so it either got missed back them or was of no inte...
2 out of 3, never liked grape drinks (except wine) so I probably never drank any. I don't remember the vending machines though. The oldest one I do re...
Be a bigfoot for a day, just like with the UFOs, someone would probably try to shoot you. Maybe the want to get to know the difference between the dif...
Other nations do not have the resources to fund investigations into things like UFOs. The USA does so because it thinks that they will get some sort o...
I think Mexico is looking for someone else to blame for the problems with the drug cartels, the gringos don't accept that they are to blame but Mexico...
I don't remember ever seeing that, but I have always tried to ignored ads. Can you imagine what would happen now if all of the people that started smo...
Even as a teenager I could never understand why the Flintstones and some of the other cartoons were kids programs. Some of the topics like Wilma think...
We are about the same age then, I am 70 years young. The program I saw was in late 65, early 66. I remember it well because I had not been in the USA ...
Seems like you are acting kind of guilty, maybe you gave them the idea to make the list or include it. Just blame your behavior on puberty, it seems t...
Is there an option to stop other certain people from seeing my posts? That would be handy to make sure that they do not participate in any threads I c...
Unfortunately the president does not make the laws and make things happen, that is the job of the congress. So people should actually spend more time ...
I lived in New Orleans for some years, late 60's early 70's, and it was also something that puzzled me when we got there. I think it is probably just ...
No, humanity is the species, the concept. 10%, hell even 1%, of the current population would be a gain if they thought we would wipe ourselves out com...
Actually you did here the same as I do when I am not sure and I don't want be to harassed by the grammar police. Rewrite the sentence to avoid the pro...
I don't know exactly how correct I am but I mostly use a rule for things like this that I learned somewhere a long time ago. If the noun-phrase or com...
The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins By: Anne Curzan, Ph.D The Routes of English By: Melvyn Bragg These are good books to read, e...
No, I stated it as a possibility without any inflection of good or bad. Nowadays a chat with most young people would convince me I was talking to a co...
Twenty boxes containing ten apples in each. Could not be an apple in boxes. Twenty boxes containing ten Jacks in each. Could not be a jack in the boxe...
If the phrase is being used as a noun, then it has to be treated as such. It does not have a subject nor a predicate because it is counted as one word...
When you talk about Jack-in-the-box, the subject is the box, because that is the toy. Because you are talking about a box with a Jack in it. That is t...
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