. . . where your house is burning down as it is burning up.

. . . where shipping is done by truck, and cargo is hauled in ships.

. . . where your house is burning up as it is burning down.

Post your similar oddities about the English language!

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

"I" before "E" except after "C" and when Webster was drunk.

*adds to quotes file*



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"Run Away!"

please post.

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

...Where I have both a fat chance and a slim chance of [insert challenging circumstance here].

Men work in cockpits and women work in box offices.

We park in a driveway and drive on the parkway.

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To artificial life, all reality is virtual.
HTP

Have a pair of panties but just one bra.

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My Daily Ramblings
"This world is made of love and peace!"
"Let's live today, let's live tomorrow, and let's live the day after that, even if it means living in eternal pain."
- Vash the Stampede

...Where a boxing ring is square.

...Where 'Marbles' are made of glass


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WARNING: THIS POST MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF PEANUT!!!
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Why is there no other word for Thesaurus? Or synonym? And why are there five syllables in the word ''monosyllabic'?

Why does the word 'lisp' have an S in it? That's just cruel!

Speaking of cruel, the fear of long words is called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

And now some word pairs to ponder:
Vegitarian - Humanitarian
Fire fighters - Freedom fighters
Wise man - Wise guy
Overlook - Oversee
Progress - Congress


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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

[This message has been edited by Spork (edited March 05, 2004).]

Its the only language that has:

Student Teachers
Death Benefits
pretty ugly
Limited Nuclear War


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Prowling out of the tundra, swinging a jeweled meat hammer, cometh Outlaw Torn! And he gives a gutteral bellow:

"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

Deliver - means to take something somewhere.... or doest i mean to remove someones/somethings liver?

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"Ahhhh!! I'm Burnin'! I'm Burnin!!!" - Cleaner from Max Payne 2

Politics.
Poly= many.
Tics= blood sucking parasites.


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Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not as they seem. Life is real, Life is ernest, the grave is not it's goal; Dust thou art, Dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
~William Shakespeare

hah...I love the progress/congress one

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Pyro Universe The ultimate place for fireworks lovers! Learn how to put on your own show! Fireworks diagrams, instructions, pictures, safety tips, links, and a message board.

New! Fireworks T-shirts!

...where you can erect a monument that's already hard. [edit: don't "overthink" on that one, please.]

...where "Massassi" has more than just one @$$... (and I'm one of them! )

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"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." - Proverbs 27:17

Catalog of Electronic Components - Complete IC data sheets
National Electrical Code (NEC) Online - Don't do wiring without consulting it. OR ELSE!

[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited March 05, 2004).]

Hah, Chaz! That one's awesome! I never thought of that before. Spork, yours made me laugh too. Great job guys! This is awesome stuff. Keep 'em coming!

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in an eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. And if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

You park in the driveway but you drive on the parkway. You ship by truck and send cargo by ship. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your
house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

And finally, how about when you want to shut down your computer you
have to hit "START!!

More Confusion !..................

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most

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I can't think of anything to put here right now.

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, though, and through -
Well done!
And now you wish perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead - it's said like bed, not bead.
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose,
Just look them up - goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And front and font, and word and sword
And do and go, and wart and cart -
Come! Come! I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I mastered it - when I was five!!!


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Roach - Steal acceptance, lend denial.

0 of 14.

I think this is what makes english such a good language. Most other languages are pretty strict and stuff. English is jsut a conglomeration of all kinds of things. Sucks to learn it, but look at it!

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WOOSH.
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English > you

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<Genki> oh, where are you going, with beards all a waggin, no knowin no knowin what bring dear Mr. Baggins, and Balin, and Dwalin, here down in the vally Ah ha!

The wind blows
I had to wind the string.


Let me read that.
I just read it.




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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
BABIES EVERYWHERE!!!