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  • dazwellia
    Honorary DSA
    • May 2013
    • 116

    You always hear the phrase "disgruntled" and "burglar" but how often do you hear people say. "He was a gruntled worker."? Or "Someone broke into my house and burgled my stuff."? Thoughts?

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    • nd32479
      Imperial Advisor
      • Aug 2009
      • 1944

      mid 17th cent.: from dis- (as an intensifier) + dialect gruntle ‘utter little grunts,’ from grunt, So in this case the prefix dis does not mean opposite.

      As for Burglar...its roots are French and very loosely means "someone who pillages". So you could say...someone pillaged my house. :)
      Last edited by nd32479; 03-27-2014, 05:23 PM.
      ND

      PS3 ID - x__ND__x

      XBOX Gametag - DSA x ND x


      ...So live, that when thy summons comes to join
      The innumerable caravan, which moves
      To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
      His chamber in the silent halls of death,
      Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
      Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
      By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
      Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
      About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

      William C. Bryant

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      • nd32479
        Imperial Advisor
        • Aug 2009
        • 1944

        But I have one for you....why is a "near miss" a good thing. If I nearly hit something, it means I missed it. So if I have a near miss, why doesn't that mean I hit it?

        Or...how do blind people know when they are done wiping their butts?
        Last edited by Deslock; 03-27-2014, 11:50 PM.
        ND

        PS3 ID - x__ND__x

        XBOX Gametag - DSA x ND x


        ...So live, that when thy summons comes to join
        The innumerable caravan, which moves
        To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
        His chamber in the silent halls of death,
        Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
        Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
        By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
        Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
        About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

        William C. Bryant

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        • dazwellia
          Honorary DSA
          • May 2013
          • 116

          I knew I'd get a lesson for that question lol. And ND, I have asked that same question about blind people and wiping. Mui and I had that discussion in the shout box last week. Oh here's another one: new and improved. How can something be both new and improved? New: never existed before. Improved: previously existed but now better.

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          • KuroiStar
            Stormtrooper

            Well, in marketing class, I learned that there are "degrees of new," meaning that something can be a brand new product, but is copied off of its previous generations (like iPhone 5, which we debated to be about maybe 30% new). So I guess that would be the "New and Improved" part?

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            • Deslock
              Darth Beratter



              Wow.

              Just. WOW. and so very true at the same time.

              And I feel the same way about the damnable Shitmas song "Rockin' around the Christmas tree"

              I wince every time they sing "the new old fashioned way".

              Just how in the Hell can it be new, and old fashioned ?.

              It just makes me cringe.
              Last edited by Deslock; 12-13-2014, 01:10 AM.


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              • JDEZ09
                Honorary DSA
                • Jul 2009
                • 1825

                Lmao only on PS4.

                & then it sells billions because perverts will use other things rather than their hands....
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                "A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - Canibus

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                • dazwellia
                  Honorary DSA
                  • May 2013
                  • 116

                  Yes, JDEZ, that was the joke :P <3

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                  • JDEZ09
                    Honorary DSA
                    • Jul 2009
                    • 1825

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                    "A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - Canibus

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                    • dazwellia
                      Honorary DSA
                      • May 2013
                      • 116

                      I'd like to lick a lemon lollipop.

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                      • JDEZ09
                        Honorary DSA
                        • Jul 2009
                        • 1825

                        Lmao
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                        "A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - Canibus

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                        • JDEZ09
                          Honorary DSA
                          • Jul 2009
                          • 1825

                          Originally posted by dazwellia
                          I'd like to lick a lemon lollipop.
                          Deslock can thank me later

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                          "A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - Canibus

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                          • dazwellia
                            Honorary DSA
                            • May 2013
                            • 116

                            OMG JDEZ. LOL where can I buy a case of that?

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                            • JDEZ09
                              Honorary DSA
                              • Jul 2009
                              • 1825

                              Amazon i think XD
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                              "A wise man sees failure as progress a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, and loses his soul in the process, Obsessed with nonsense with a caricature that has no content." - Canibus

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                              • dazwellia
                                Honorary DSA
                                • May 2013
                                • 116

                                Nah, I'm not a big lemon fan. Thanks though lol

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