Antiquary
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posted on November 1, 2001 03:02:20 PM new
Of course we all use them, and most are real life ones or variations. Some I hardly notice, but every once in a while, one seems to catch on and really bugs the hell of me.
The admonition, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket," has come to have the same endearing effect on me as someone raking fingernails across a chalkboard. For four years now every time a problem with eBay surfaces, and God knows there have been plenty, someone brings up the eggs and baskets and suddenly the hue and cry goes out through all of boardom about eggs and baskets, baskets and eggs, the whole of OAI taking on the image of a gigantic chicken farm in my mind.
I've been wondering for a while if any of the rest of you are irritated by certain expressions.
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saabsister
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posted on November 1, 2001 03:08:51 PM new
When I heard POT,KETTLE,BLACK , I wanted to say SCISSORS,ROCK,PAPER. There was something about the sequence that made me think of the game rather than the cliche.
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Antiquary
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posted on November 1, 2001 03:17:35 PM new
I had never thought of that analogy but it does work.
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hjw
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posted on November 1, 2001 03:58:01 PM new
I dislike this one so much that I hesitate to mention it.
"Don't get your panties in a wad" or "SmithyRiddles bunched", or "knickers twisted".....usually used by women who also use POT, KETTLE, BLACK.
Helen
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elfgifu
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posted on November 1, 2001 04:16:34 PM new
A personal favorite...
"Who tinkled on your cheerios?"
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enchanted
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posted on November 1, 2001 04:44:34 PM new
ewwwwww.
Helen, why, I can feel my knickers getting twisted as we speak! They're just bunching up, owwww. Just kidding...
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krs
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:18:54 PM new
A fluff thread. I thought we were through with fluff threads.
I'm going to start a ponderment............Let me think.....
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Antiquary
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:25:30 PM new
Let me think.....
We're in for a long wait. I'll set my alarm clock.
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krs
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:33:24 PM new
You wanted to talk about chickens, didn't you Dan. It's not about eggs at all.
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rancher24
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:34:49 PM new
"Chill"....Not when referring to refrigeration but rather "take it easy" or "Hanging out"....Severly overused by my 17 year old and it drives me absolutely nuts!!!
Krs....I have to think would that be I have to LINK? *
*just a dry witted joke, not an insult 
~ Rancher
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Antiquary
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:35:22 PM new
No, the egg came first. Everybody knows that.
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bearmom
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:41:22 PM new
Ponderment: If your panties are in a bunch, can you still lay your eggs in a basket at all?
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:44:01 PM new
Hmmmmmmm.
I'm still trying to think of what cliche annoys me. I know there's got to be one.
I could think a whole lot better if these darn smitty riddles weren't all bunched up.
edited:fingers not functioning
[ edited by rawbunzel on Nov 1, 2001 05:46 PM ]
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Antiquary
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:44:17 PM new
LOL
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KatyD
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:46:42 PM new
I clicked on this thread thinking you were talking about CLIQUES. But I see it's about cliches. Cliques, cliches they all the same in chatboard land. I had a good chatboard cliche I wanted to share, but I'm so tired I forgot it.
KatyD
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KatyD
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:47:15 PM new
If you do start a clique, Antiquary, can I be in it?
KatyD
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kraftdinner
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:48:57 PM new
The phrase "wake-up call", as in "I don't agree with you, so you need a wake-up call". I always feel like saying "OK, time to get back in your cage", but never do.....for obvious reasons.
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KatyD
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posted on November 1, 2001 05:56:30 PM new
Okay I remembered the chatboard cliche that drives me absolutely nuts. It's sooo sophmoric.
The clue phone is ringing and it's for you and variations there of.
KatyD
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 1, 2001 06:06:52 PM new
KatyD, I just got a phone call. They say they want to talk to you.Something about a clue??? HeHeHeHe
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Antiquary
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posted on November 1, 2001 06:08:13 PM new
If you do start a clique, Antiquary, can I be in it?
No, you wouldn't help me with my manifesto. I'll be trapped here forever.
All you guys have great ones.
Okay, my runner-up: sprewing various and sundry beverages on keyboards.
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KatyD
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posted on November 1, 2001 06:09:47 PM new
I'm gonna get you Rawbunz. Be afraid. Be very afraid. heh
KatyD
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KatyD
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posted on November 1, 2001 06:11:27 PM new
I'll help you with your manifesto, Antiquary. However, I subscribe to the theory that the best manifesto is no manifesto at all. Ya never know when you might want to change your mind. 
KatyD
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snowyegret
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posted on November 1, 2001 06:15:59 PM new
Pot stirring and its variations. If I wanted to cook, I'd be in the kitchen.
You have the right to an informed opinion
-Harlan Ellison
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Antiquary
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posted on November 1, 2001 06:19:19 PM new
Hmmmm! Pretty existential, Katy. I like that. The unmanifesto. I think I'll start on one of those.
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enchanted
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posted on November 1, 2001 06:43:53 PM new
I've overused a few of those phrases to the point where even I'm tired of them
Another one: would you like some whine with your cheese?
rawbunzel
oh yeah I overuse the smilies too, but they do help express the sense of humor behind my remarks, so I keep using them
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roddaddy
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posted on November 1, 2001 06:44:36 PM new
I'll tell ya this. If I have to listen to "IF IT HAD BEEN A SNAKE IT A BIT ME" one more time I just don't know what I'll do. Doesn't that just make you want to loose your supper?
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"Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today because if you do
it today and like it, you can do it again tomorrow."
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Antiquary
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posted on November 2, 2001 06:37:53 PM new
On a somewhat serious note about humor, that is, what I consider serious humor, I agree with enchanted about the use of similies, though I sometimes feel that I overuse them. My attempts at humor are frequently ironic and though I assume that posters know when I'm joking and being friendly, I see far too many misunderstandings or ambiguous readings among posters on the boards to ever discard them. And then, too, some of us who have been posting with others that we know fairly well for a while, tend to forget that new posters or lurkers who may not know us so well, can easily misinterpret our intent.
Times certainly change and when the similies were first introduced on the messageboards I was certain that I would never use them; just not my style and all that. I still try to be somewhat sparing with them, but I think that they've generally enhanced effectiveness in internet communication for message and chatboards.
sp
[ edited by Antiquary on Nov 2, 2001 06:39 PM ]
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bearmom
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posted on November 2, 2001 07:28:53 PM new
Huh? Words of two syllables or less, please! 
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Antiquary
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posted on November 2, 2001 08:01:24 PM new
What you see is what you get.
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sweetpotato
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posted on November 2, 2001 09:32:59 PM new
I hate the "800 pound gorilla" reference to eBay. I've been hearing it for so long, I reckon that boy's gotta weigh in at least a couple of ton by now.
"Feebay" and "ePay" bug the crap out of me - quite yer whining and go play back in the Other Online Auctions Forum.
Hate {{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}} but I admit I've been guilty of it once or twice. It always strikes me as phoney.
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