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05-19-2008, 06:58 PM
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"Fish or cut bait."
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05-19-2008, 07:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by graybeard
"Fish or cut bait."
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Or, Lock and Load,,Safety Off...."The shit's about to hit the Fan".... 
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05-19-2008, 07:36 PM
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It's not who you know....it's who you blow. 
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We cant be so fixated on our desire to serve the rights of ordinary Americans....Bill Clinton March 11, 1993
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05-19-2008, 09:42 PM
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Political Mastermind
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Yesterday's Whine is today's piss..
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No matter where ya go, there ya are..
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05-20-2008, 02:44 AM
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"To gain one's true independance one has to learn to "do or die".
A bit bookish, but interesting.
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Shit,,,or get off the Toilet",--- "Raise,,,or Fold", ---"If you want to eat,,, skin it and clean it"....
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Great, I noted it down : )
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And yes Al,,,'sink or swim' is still used in Navy Boot Camps. They won't go in after you until the bubbles stop coming up....
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Yes, you should be prepared there for the slogan ‘the Guard dies, but doesn’t surrender’ : )
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How about "fuck or be fucked"? How about "shit or get off the pot"? How about......You crazy little fucker if you do not "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" I am going to have your stupid ass put in the Booby Hatch (loony bin).
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Cottonbroker, a friend of mine needs it for a scientific report of something like this. I gave her a link, but I am afraid that she’ll have to expel some words from you version : ) |
05-20-2008, 07:41 AM
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Word
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Originally Posted by Al Blanco
'sink or swim'. Is it expression in use?
I need an English equivalent of our proverb which means that a person should help himself/herself, not count on others. How it can be said?
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05-20-2008, 08:30 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Blanco
"To gain one's true independance one has to learn to "do or die".
A bit bookish, but interesting.
Great, I noted it down : )
Yes, you should be prepared there for the slogan ‘the Guard dies, but doesn’t surrender’ : )
Cottonbroker, a friend of mine needs it for a scientific report of something like this. I gave her a link, but I am afraid that she’ll have to expel some words from you version : )
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Aw those stuffy academics......profanity spices up writing/posts.
Kind of like a verbal habanero.....
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