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the word 'bound'

Posted on 11/12/2010 6:42:42 PM PST by perfect stranger

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To: perfect stranger

yes


21 posted on 11/12/2010 7:31:05 PM PST by smokingfrog (Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
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To: perfect stranger

I’m bound for the hills.


22 posted on 11/12/2010 7:31:31 PM PST by Bhoy
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To: RegulatorCountry

Ah, but the plural of “spouse” certainly could be “spice.”-


23 posted on 11/12/2010 7:31:58 PM PST by oldfart (Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
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To: Clump

Yes! Or “oversight”. It means both the process of carefully monitoring something, and the act of failing to notice something.

“The failure of the engine was due to an oversight by the technician.”

“The engine performed admirably thanks to the careful oversight of the technician.”

This led me, in junior high, to grossly misunderstand what a “Senate Oversight Committee” is supposed to do. (Or maybe not misunderstand at all.)


24 posted on 11/12/2010 7:41:09 PM PST by Omedalus
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To: SERKIT

25 posted on 11/12/2010 7:45:42 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: oldfart
Ah, but the plural of “spouse” certainly could be “spice.”

But then there's the metamorphosis into "spite" after a decade or two.

26 posted on 11/12/2010 7:47:59 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Vendome; Lazamataz
The old prof ran screaming from his lab. "Flies can hear! I can prove it."
Everyone gathered to watch.
The prof released a captive fly with the words. "Fly, fly!"
And the fly flew.
He recaptured the fly and cut off its wings. He released it again shouting, "Fly, fly!"
But the fly fell.
"SEE!" he shouted. "When you cut off their wings, they go deaf!"

I know. I know...

27 posted on 11/12/2010 7:52:17 PM PST by MestaMachine (Farrago fatigans! - Thuffering thuccotash!)
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To: Clump
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sanction Occasionally, a word can have contradictory meanings. Such a case is represented by sanction, which can mean both "to allow, encourage" and "to punish so as to deter." It is a borrowing from the Latin word sncti, meaning "a law or decree that is sacred or inviolable." In English, the word is first recorded in the mid-1500s in the meaning "law, decree," but not long after, in about 1635, it refers to "the penalty enacted to cause one to obey a law or decree." Thus from the beginning two fundamental notions of law were wrapped up in it: law as something that permits or approves and law that forbids by punishing. From the noun, a verb sanction was created in the 18th century meaning "to allow by law," but it wasn't until the second half of the 20th century that it began to mean "to punish (for breaking a law)."
28 posted on 11/12/2010 7:55:05 PM PST by ExGeeEye (Freedom: to say "No!" fearlessly to the Feds, and get away with it.)
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29 posted on 11/12/2010 7:59:11 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Vendome

You old bounder you!


30 posted on 11/12/2010 9:16:12 PM PST by kenavi (The good ol' US of A: 57 state laboratories for the future.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I’m confused. I’m bound for England. Am I moving, or can I not move?


31 posted on 11/12/2010 9:18:33 PM PST by dangus
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To: Larry Lucido

Good thing I’m not bound for Virginia. It’s bound to make my wife jealous. And since I’m bound to her, I’m bound to bound to her.


32 posted on 11/12/2010 9:20:19 PM PST by dangus
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To: perfect stranger
As long as you aren't Bound For The Floor, you'll be fine.
33 posted on 11/12/2010 9:21:59 PM PST by Constitution Day (And you just don't get it, you keep it copacetic.)
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To: kenavi

LOL


34 posted on 11/12/2010 9:29:26 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: bboop
I used math or equation functions at least, to explain the relationships and relative values of seldom, often, rarely, never, and always to a Turkish ESL student.

On another note, how can you stand sitting there?
35 posted on 11/12/2010 9:51:06 PM PST by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: perfect stranger

OK everyone else has,

Two wrongs don’t make a right, three lefts do.


36 posted on 11/12/2010 10:31:39 PM PST by ConservativeChris
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To: perfect stranger
As I was already bound to her, I was bound to bound to her side, even though such an action put me out of bounds.

Cheers!

37 posted on 11/15/2010 11:03:12 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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