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Old Jan 11th 2013, 6:39 pm
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.. folks die and you say they "passed on" or they "passed," instead of saying they dropped dead or kicked the bucket.
Snuffed it.

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Old Jan 11th 2013, 6:40 pm
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Originally Posted by GeoffM
...You no longer swear under your breath when a jaywalker steps out in front of your car and just consider it perfectly normal.
These days I only swear under my breath when I miss them ...
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Originally Posted by vikingsail
... you start to wonder just which are the NRO, CIA, INS, Homeland Security or FBI profiles/bloggers on BE! You know they are out there!!
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Originally Posted by robin1234
.. folks die and you say they "passed on" or they "passed," instead of saying they dropped dead or kicked the bucket.
and you say "sorry for your loss" instead of offering condolences.
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
These days I only swear under my breath when I miss them ...
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Women are still worth 10 points more than men in all age brackets, but teenagers now rack up 40 points, and toddlers under 12 now rate a big 70 points. The big score: anyone, any sex, over 75 years old has been upped to 100 points.
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you actually find yourself stopping to let people cross on unmarked cross walks, instead of yelling use a zebra crossing.
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Originally Posted by Nutek
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Women are still worth 10 points more than men in all age brackets, but teenagers now rack up 40 points, and toddlers under 12 now rate a big 70 points. The big score: anyone, any sex, over 75 years old has been upped to 100 points.
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Those 11 year old toddlers are quite hard to find - they should be worth more
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saying to your wife "how much do you like being done" and knowing that the answer will be time based and not how much they Like to have finished what they were doing.
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Those 11 year old toddlers are quite hard to find - they should be worth more
That probably slipped by the editors whilst they were engrossed in the deep plot lines of the movie.

Great film... Stalones best performance ever imo.
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You give up denying that you are related to the Queen.
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Great film... Stalones best performance ever imo.
Is that like "Great British Lovers"?
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Is that like "Great British Lovers"?
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Your second language is Spanish.
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Originally Posted by jemima55
You give up denying that you are related to the Queen.
You give up denying that you KNOW the Queen!!
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Originally Posted by jemima55
You give up denying that you are related to the Queen.
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You give up denying that you KNOW the Queen!!
..you ARE the Queen!
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