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Theresa
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 Fri May 26, 2006 5:58 pm Weird word of the... moment |
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The word of the moment is grocery/groceries.
You go to a grocery store to get groceries. The plural of grocery one would assume is groceries, but that's just a technicality. You never buy a "grocery", only "groceries". I get where the word comes from, grocer, but if you think about the way we use the word, it's just... weird, 
Had to share.
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ACDC Girl
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| Fri May 26, 2006 6:01 pm |
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*Thinks about it for a min*
Heeeeeeeeeeey your right. That IS weird. 
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Lord Borg
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| Fri May 26, 2006 6:07 pm |
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You know what I think? I think T has way to much time on her hands.
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Theresa
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| Fri May 26, 2006 6:08 pm |
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Tsk, I wish. I apparently just "think too much".
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Birdy
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| Sun May 28, 2006 5:18 am |
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Good one. I've never thought about that.
But you're totally right, T. Weeeeeeeird.
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Otter
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| Sun May 28, 2006 6:38 am |
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treklessness!, my invention
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lionhead
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| Sun May 28, 2006 7:57 am |
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Weird word of the moment: Pop-Metal. or any metal that isn't Heavy Metal or just Metal.
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belanna_rules210
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| Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:54 pm |
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odd word: nukable or nukability
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squiggy
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| Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:35 pm |
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Odd word: Cellular.
How many people do you know that actually call thier cell phones, Cellular phones? Seriously... what's the point?
Odd PHRASE: McDonald's HEALTHY CHOICES MENU
How many of your out there go to McDonald's to get AWAY from all these places offering health menus? I don't know about you, but in a world becomming increasingly obsessed with health food((Health food restaurants now out-number Gas Stations in the Greater Vancouver area)), when your addicted to Junk Food, and you find you are one of those 1 in 1000000 people who functions better on Chemicals, Sugar, Chocolate, and Caffiene, then the health table they taught you in school, why on EARTH would you want to go to a place with a healthy choices menu? I really don't understand why MCDONALD'S OF ALL PLACES would have one. I remember back in the day when people who wanted to eat healthy just avoided fast-food joints. Now they are taking over  
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Theresa
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| Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:56 pm |
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Here's another one. Unloosed
Think about it.
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Ragady
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| Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:10 pm |
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"You need to speak more clearler..." I ment to say clearly that day, and instead I invented a new word...
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B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9
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| Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:25 pm |
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Gad zooks
Meaning: God's wounds
strange !!
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Theresa
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:07 pm |
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If I ask you to unthaw something, what are you going to do wih it?
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Lord Borg
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:10 pm |
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Uh..... make it so it isn't frozen? *shrugs* but sin't that what thawing is called?
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:21 pm |
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I'm guessing common sense would have it mean to re-freeze something you've already thawed out. Whaaaatever.
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Theresa
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:44 pm |
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Too bad common sense has nothing to do with it.
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:53 pm |
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Then what does it mean?
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Theresa
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:06 pm |
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| Quote: | unthaw
v : become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:12 pm |
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Hmmm. Like flammable and inflammable, no?
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Theresa
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:17 pm |
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No.
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:22 pm |
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"Thaw" and "unthaw" seem to mean the same thing, as do "flammable" and "inflammable," 
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Theresa
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:43 pm |
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Flammable means "will burn". Inflammable means "won't burn". Inflamed, however...
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luit14
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:46 pm |
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Valuable and invaluable. Same thing. Whats with that?
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IntrepidIsMe
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| Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:50 pm |
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| Theresa wrote: | | Flammable means "will burn". Inflammable means "won't burn". Inflamed, however... |
Webster appears to disagree with you.
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"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
-Wuthering Heights
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Theresa
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| Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:07 pm |
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That's silly. You buy a rug, it says "made of inflammable materials, completely fire retardent". We'd better get them to fix that, 
(This is on a hearth rug, btw)
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