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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:23 PM Original message |
My Brother: "Dude why do you always use 'Big Words' when you talk!" |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. He'd have fun talking to me. |
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Race4Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. 'small words' bore you? |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:32 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Or have the kid raised by a professor |
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Kerrytravelers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
3. Perhaps his next birthday gift should be a dictionary? |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Or maybe a "Improve you vocabulary tape" |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. I hope you really didn't say "Carpe Blanche"? |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:34 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Why did I miss spell it? |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. It's "carte blanche" (i.e., a blank ticket - think "blank check") |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. No I pronounced it right I just misspelled it |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Not if you actually said "sieze the white" in two different languages. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 03:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Just hope his sister-in-law's name isn't Blanche. |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 03:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. My sister-in-law is a fundie BTW |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 04:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Still no excuse to go Carpe her. nt. |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 03:36 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Seize Ms. DuBois? |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. 'Carpe blanche'? |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Oops, spelling |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
12. "because i'm smarter than you, dude" |
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. I once got the same crap in HS for saying "therefore" |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
19. I get that all the time. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
20. With practice, you could learn to talk to him in words of one syllable. |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
21. first hubby used to say to me |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 06:37 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I assume that is one reason why you are no longer married to him? |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 06:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. well - let's just say that |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 07:09 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Yeah, I like it... |
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txwhitedove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
23. I too have an ex who asked me why the use of big words... |
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hiro (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
26. Back in high school... |
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