It's amazing how much you can learn when you get into reading trivia and odd news articles. If my memory serves me right (and it may not always do so, until the doctors finish cutting another cancer off) the study of words and phrases backgrounds is something like entomology - whatever they call it, it's fun.
My favourite is the phrase "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." This is a very old British Royal Navy expression and greatly predates the idea of making monkey shaped statues out of brass. It goes back to the early days of shipboard cannons.
Beside each cannon was a brass triangle screwed to the deck. This held the ready use cannonballs, one in each corner. The triangle was so well made that once the balls were placed on it, they were very tightly packed and it took a real effort to get one off. The ship's deck had to be nearly vertical for them to fall off. They were made out of brass as it didn't contract or expand in the cold and heat as much as iron did. Add in the fact that a helper who was good for very little was known as a 'monkey' and you get positions that relate to the cannon like - powder monkey, young boy who runs between the cannon and the powder store bringing back small kegs of gunpowder; and brass monkey, the brass triangle on the deck.
The cannon balls will stay safely secured in the brass monkey until such time as the weather gets a few degrees below zero and stays there for some hours. In those conditions, it gets cold enough for the brass to contract enough to make the cannonballs actually pop off the triangle. Not the kind of conditions to be out in the weather in, if you can avoid it.
Thus, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' means it's well below zero degrees outside on deck. Kind of chilly.
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I believe the expression 'cum like a race horse' stems from when a high dollar horse's semen is collected.
The only time I've found this in one of those books about origins of words and phrases, it had the following.mhpn6dCkPeHnJlSd
'Come like a race horse.' - This arose from local and regional horse races at fairs and the like. Nearly all the horses entered were local work horses or family horses. The races were part of the fun entertainment of the local fair day. In most such amateur races, the horse went flat out from the start of the race to the end of the race, unlike the fully purebreds in a professional horse race where the horses were paced and then given their full sprint in the final straight. Sometimes, a purebred with a professional jockey on board would be entered into the local races. In such cases, the purebred would be paced and then would start at the back of the pack in the final straight and give it's all in the final sprint. Since the purebred is bred and trained for this situation, it would suddenly take off and pass all the other horses like they were standing still. Since then, this phrase has come to mean a situation where someone doesn't show their full capability until near the end, where they suddenly roar past everyone else at high speed.
NB: The expression has been around a lot longer than the use of artificial insemination in the horse racing world.
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I doubt it will have much effect. Some years ago, two teams with a very long history of strong competitiveness between them were playing in northern Italy - each team represented their village. The referee made a call that one team objected to - a spectator produced a pistol and shot at the ref. He dropped to the ground produced a gun from under his shirt and returned fire. By the time everything was ended and cleared up - three people went to hospital with bullet wounds, the referee, both linesmen, two spectators, and six players had to appear before a local judge and a soccer association tribunal to explain why they had taken firearms into the grounds. The players and officials had been racing around the field with the pistols under their shirts. A dim view of the event was taken by all the authorities involved. the next year, those two village teams were in different competition groups.
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Hey, since were sliding off topic about. I recently did a Google on my name and those of my cousins and found hits for sites where our sites have been reposted without any of us being told. we don't mind that so much as we're still trying to find out why some stories that have no sex content are on sex sites, and some that are purely hetro are on gay sites. The topper is the absolutely no sex short novel in English is listed as a help reference on a German gay site.
Some seem to be using reposting of other's stories as ways to get extra hits on their sites.
Some seem to be using reposting of other's stories as ways to get extra hits on their sites.
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error in the link it should be
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there's an excess space between the e of jingle and the underscore line
http://blog.adonias.cl/archivos/Flash/Jingle_Bells_Reversed.swf
there's an excess space between the e of jingle and the underscore line
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OK, I'd been keeping out of this one, but now you've moved to hookers and referring to fishing smacks, well -
Here in Australia, lots of men and women go to Hookers on a weekly basis - to pay their rent, L J Hookers is one of our largest real estate firms.IM8hiomCFfQJNBGc
Here in Australia, lots of men and women go to Hookers on a weekly basis - to pay their rent, L J Hookers is one of our largest real estate firms.IM8hiomCFfQJNBGc
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I wonder if you REALLY mean a hot chocolate cock - now that could get very slick, how ever you want to take it.
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Well, our sub topic - started with a comment on guys going out with mannequins, is about a certain type of guy who doesn't really see a woman as a person, and the type of women they usually end up with. Within this group of guys, the first item of notice with a female is their breasts, followed by the amount of cleavage on general display - the guys in question all have a severe case of myopia.
Anyway, I think we both agree there are some dumb people out there.
Anyway, I think we both agree there are some dumb people out there.
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Why should they, most can get better pay as assistant shift leaders at McDonalds or Pizza Hut. I know one nurse who went back into the Army as a medic, she gets nearly triple the money, and thats while still, on base in Australia, nearly five times when posted to a danger zone. 
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Interesting assumption there fystee - I just said we know some like that, never said I was one of them. I'm looking for a partner, not a pair of good tits, you can buy a good pair of tits at any good cosmetic surgeon's. Sadly, I've worked and played sport with a few guys whose ability to judge a partner rests solely on her bra size, and often the women they find this way, have a bra size that has a higher number than their IQ, well at least, that's how they present themselves in public - topic of conversation is limited to certain soapies, clothes, and sex. I'm not into wearing women's clothes, don't like the soapies, and you just can't spend 24 hours a day, seven days a week engaged in sex - no matter how many tonnes of viagra you have.
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I think it's a cleverly made up mannequin. Still I know a few men who'd probably have sex with it regardless!
And that's probably because it shows a bit more responsiveness than some females they've met - mind you, I think we're both talking about the guys that look at the bra size and cleavage before they consider there may actually be a person in there as well.
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Over the years, I've seen a few inattentive prangs due to moving distractions. the funniest was in 1988, I had a work crew out in the garden of a large house just a couple of blocks from a Catholic girls' school. Most of the seniors were real distractions, however, since it was one of the most prestigious schools in the state, a lot of them were very stuck up - the annual fees were higher than many people get as an annual salary.
Anyway, back to the story. One sunny day, two good looking young ladies came out of the school wearing skirts that were a good 150mm 6 inches shorter than the school's regulation knee length skirt - and they had the legs to get away with it. Two of my work crew tried to chat them up as they walked by, they were on their way to get lunch down the street. The boys tried again when the girls came back, each time the girls stuck their noses up in the air and ignored them. We finished work and were packed up just as the school let out for the day. As we drove slowly down the street (it was a school zone, so we had to go slow, didn't we - yes I was driving), these two walk out and head down the street, as they pass us, the boys whistle at them, they stick their heads back, noses up and turn slightly aside as they sniff in disdain. I laugher hard and had to stop when one walked into a power pole and bounced into the other - both ended up on the rears on the footpath, with most of the school's students laughing at them. Naturally, I had to get out and help them get up. Nice to look at, but boy, could they swear - I learnt some new ones that day.
Anyway, back to the story. One sunny day, two good looking young ladies came out of the school wearing skirts that were a good 150mm 6 inches shorter than the school's regulation knee length skirt - and they had the legs to get away with it. Two of my work crew tried to chat them up as they walked by, they were on their way to get lunch down the street. The boys tried again when the girls came back, each time the girls stuck their noses up in the air and ignored them. We finished work and were packed up just as the school let out for the day. As we drove slowly down the street (it was a school zone, so we had to go slow, didn't we - yes I was driving), these two walk out and head down the street, as they pass us, the boys whistle at them, they stick their heads back, noses up and turn slightly aside as they sniff in disdain. I laugher hard and had to stop when one walked into a power pole and bounced into the other - both ended up on the rears on the footpath, with most of the school's students laughing at them. Naturally, I had to get out and help them get up. Nice to look at, but boy, could they swear - I learnt some new ones that day.
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Just a quick word on the latest stats from our last election - 94.76% of the actual vote counted
Two party preferred - ALP 52.78%, Coalition 47.22%
Actual first preference figures of votes made - ALP 43.38%, Coalition 41.77%, Informal 3.95%
No Vote 5.24% (remember voting is compulsory here).
Seats - ALP 82, Coalition 63, Independent 2, still to be decides 3
Now lets look at the first preference as a % of the total of electors of 13,645,073
ALP 5,388,259 = 39.49%
Coalition 5,188,827 = 38.03%
Informal 510,381 = 03.74%
No shows 714,400 = 05.24%
So the current government is only directly representing 39.49% of the population. yet they claim to have a mandate from the whole country - no wonder I doubt their ability to think straight, they don't know that a mandate requires better than 75% of the primary vote to be a valid statement.
Two party preferred - ALP 52.78%, Coalition 47.22%
Actual first preference figures of votes made - ALP 43.38%, Coalition 41.77%, Informal 3.95%
No Vote 5.24% (remember voting is compulsory here).
Seats - ALP 82, Coalition 63, Independent 2, still to be decides 3
Now lets look at the first preference as a % of the total of electors of 13,645,073
ALP 5,388,259 = 39.49%
Coalition 5,188,827 = 38.03%
Informal 510,381 = 03.74%
No shows 714,400 = 05.24%
So the current government is only directly representing 39.49% of the population. yet they claim to have a mandate from the whole country - no wonder I doubt their ability to think straight, they don't know that a mandate requires better than 75% of the primary vote to be a valid statement.
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Just did the test, and whatever they're using to weigh it is crazy - according to the test I got 75 and bounce back very quickly. The reality is the exact opposite. Sure, I clear out pictures etc, to reduce the pain the memories of them bring to mind. But getting over the relationship takes a long time, a very long time.
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That could be due to the monitor and lighting she has - I have a 21" TFT monitor, and I can see the face when the picture is near the bottom of the screen, move it up so I'm looking at it at an upward angle of 30 degrees (monitor is currently mounted a bit higher than it should be) and the whole window is just a black square - the face and hands aren't visible at all. I don't get the same result when I look at the image on another computer with a CRT monitor - must be something to do with the TFT lighting process - even the droplets vanish.
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The best theory that I've read is:
A large meteorite did hit the earth, it caused a firestorm that swept the planet. After the majority of the foliage was burnt out, there wasn't enough food to sustain the large land based herbivores and the land based carnivores that fed off them.
All the little ones, about the size of a dog or so were able to survive by taking shelter and also because they didn't need such large amounts of vegetation - they could live off the small bits left close to the ground and in small hard to get places. These smaller animals grew larger over the centuries, as the food sources grew back.
A large meteorite did hit the earth, it caused a firestorm that swept the planet. After the majority of the foliage was burnt out, there wasn't enough food to sustain the large land based herbivores and the land based carnivores that fed off them.
All the little ones, about the size of a dog or so were able to survive by taking shelter and also because they didn't need such large amounts of vegetation - they could live off the small bits left close to the ground and in small hard to get places. These smaller animals grew larger over the centuries, as the food sources grew back.
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Fystee, in the past, I've arrested a few peeping Toms, and all knew the basics of physics and light, they stand back from the windows to be harder to see and harder to identify. If it had been a real peeper needing some support, they would use one hand on the brickwork just a few inches further right and much safer. The real give away is the difference in the heights of the blinds, one is full coverage, the other has been raised.
Even knowing that, it's still a cute and funny picture. Most set ups are.
Even knowing that, it's still a cute and funny picture. Most set ups are.
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Recognition of the truth doesn't mean I'm being negative. I've never met or heard of anyone wearing jewelery in the shower before, except in some movies.
Have a closer look at the face, the eyes are aimed upwards, the grin is not natural, and the hands are on the glass - a real voyeur wouldn't be touching the glass, and the expression would be different.
I did say it was cute and funny - I just think people should be aware it was set up and not a case of somewhere being caught peeking.
Have a closer look at the face, the eyes are aimed upwards, the grin is not natural, and the hands are on the glass - a real voyeur wouldn't be touching the glass, and the expression would be different.
I did say it was cute and funny - I just think people should be aware it was set up and not a case of somewhere being caught peeking.
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Very cute, very funny, and clearly set up.
1. You can see on of the girls has some sort of shorts on - black waist band visible.
2. They still have their jewelery on.
3. The blind has been deliberately raised just high enough for the photo, while the other hasn't.
All in all, it's still a good laugh.tX7SXfQEunmKQQrX
1. You can see on of the girls has some sort of shorts on - black waist band visible.
2. They still have their jewelery on.
3. The blind has been deliberately raised just high enough for the photo, while the other hasn't.
All in all, it's still a good laugh.tX7SXfQEunmKQQrX
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that they will, as they decide the ALP IR policy. But the biggest concern is Rudd's already shown he cares more for 'looking good for the current voter demographic' than what's best or what's right. he's claiming a landslide (oops sorry, a Ruddslide) victory, yet on the 2 party preferred he has less than 53% of the total vote, and only 43.38% of the total first preference votes. yes, that more than the 41.79% of coalition first preferences, but not a mandate.
The real frightening thing is that the GST rate can only be changed by agreement between the feds and all states together, the ALP now have all - will they change the GST, and if so, which way and how much?
Last time the ALP got in at the federal level, it was Hawke and Keating, the main federal revenue source was the Sales Tax that the GST replaced (amongst others) and the first thing Keating did after taking office was to up the general rate from 15% to 22.5%. Yet, during the election campaign Hawke said he wouldn't increase taxes. It's a worry.
The real frightening thing is that the GST rate can only be changed by agreement between the feds and all states together, the ALP now have all - will they change the GST, and if so, which way and how much?
Last time the ALP got in at the federal level, it was Hawke and Keating, the main federal revenue source was the Sales Tax that the GST replaced (amongst others) and the first thing Keating did after taking office was to up the general rate from 15% to 22.5%. Yet, during the election campaign Hawke said he wouldn't increase taxes. It's a worry.
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In general, I'd have to agree with Susan and fystee, however, I'd also like to say that in saying so, I'd only condemn those who made a clear decision to cheat - I wouldn't say the same about someone who was seduced or ended up in such a situation without their agreement. It's too easy to get someone so drunk they don't really know who they're with, and similar things. I've heard of people being taken advantage of in such situation - both male and female. To my mind, such actions that end up in sex are - clear and simple; and victims should NOT be held in the same regard as someone who is in control and agrees.