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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=19844#p19844]Here[/url] Glenn E. wrote:giving the 1873 it's only shot at a fresh palate.
Glenn E.’s maiden is broken.
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D'ohh!
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jdaw1 wrote:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=19844#p19844]Here[/url] Glenn E. wrote:giving the 1873 it's only shot at a fresh palate.
Glenn E.’s maiden is broken.
If that is intended to be a cricketing analogy, I am not sure "maiden" is the correct term. I would have suggested "off the mark" or in non cricketing terms "lost his virginity"! (Glenn - no offence intended, just a British expression for doing something the first time.)

It is however about time that we had some more cricketing 'drivel', so I prefer the former!
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benread wrote: cricketing 'drivel'
What is the opposite of an oximoron? (see example above)

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DRT wrote:
benread wrote: cricketing 'drivel'
What is the opposite of an oximoron? (see example above)
Tautology?
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DRT wrote:What is the opposite of an oximoron?
Perhaps ‟oxymoron”, because only one is spelt correctly.
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DRT wrote:
benread wrote: cricketing 'drivel'
What is the opposite of an oximoron? (see example above)
Redundance.
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Have the crimes in this thread gone unreported for any particular reason?
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DRT wrote:Have the crimes in this thread gone unreported for any particular reason?
Ask the Deputy Sheriff.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=21920#p21920]Here[/url] DRT wrote:until two weeks ago, had been undisturbed in the Symmington cellar's in VNG since bottling
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=21920#p21920]Here[/url] DRT wrote:until two weeks ago, had been undisturbed in the Symmington cellar's in VNG since bottling
Damn. I was doing so well.
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Andy V is from L.A. so does not use English as a natural language so should be excluded from ridicule in this thread.
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DRT wrote:Andy V is from L.A. so does not use English as a natural language so should be excluded from ridicule in this thread.
I think you mean, or at least I hope you mean, a first language.
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jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:Andy V is from L.A. so does not use English as a natural language so should be excluded from ridicule in this thread.
I think you mean, or at least I hope you mean, a first language.
It is presumably no better than his 3rd language, after American and LA Street. :wink:
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jdaw1 wrote:
I just spent far too long puzzling over why jdaw1 would prefer ‟1815’s” to ‟1815s”...
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JacobH wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
I just spent far too long puzzling over why jdaw1 would prefer ‟1815’s” to ‟1815s”...
I just did the same thing!
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Please reassure me that all is now clear.
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Please be reassured. All is now clear. Dont worry any futher.
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Maybe Axel would like to comment on errors that I might have made in Auktionen von Bundesanleihen: Ein besserer Mechanismus.
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