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- Out of date - sphinx 28/March/04
- Driven home - SFC 28/March/04
- Driven home - Bruce
Kahl 28/March/04
- Driven home - ESC 28/March/04
- Driven home - Bruce
Kahl 28/March/04
- Boy-made-good - SFC 28/March/04
- Boy-made-good - Bruce
Kahl 28/March/04
- Boy-made-good - R. Berg 28/March/04
- Boy-made-good - Bruce
Kahl 28/March/04
- Britain's best known sayings. - James Briggs 28/March/04
- Britain's best known sayings. - Barney 28/March/04
- Britain's best known sayings. - James Briggs 28/March/04
- Britain's best known sayings. - Barney 28/March/04
- Sent to Coventry - Grady Arbuckel 28/March/04
- Nuts - liliana 28/March/04
- Nuts - ESC 28/March/04
- City of Halifax history ! - local Nova Scotia cities Halifax historian 27/March/04
- City of Halifax history
! - ESC 27/March/04
- City of Halifax history ! - Henry 27/March/04
- City of Halifax history
! - ESC 27/March/04
- Again on that 'Reading Comprehension' - sphinx 27/March/04
- "Preening sophistication"? - ESL 27/March/04
- Out-of-the- box - chhavi 27/March/04
- See that Search box up there
^^^^^? - Bob 27/March/04
- Out-of-the-box vs. outside the box - Smokey Stover 28/March/04
- See that Search box up there
^^^^^? - Bob 27/March/04
- Carry the mantle / mantel - Larry 27/March/04
- "Knackered'"=exhausted? - Jason 27/March/04
- "Chew the rag"=to chat? - Jason 27/March/04
- "Chew the rag"=to
chat? - Smokey Stover 27/March/04
- "Chew the rag"=to chat? - Jason 28/March/04
- "Chew the rag"=to chat? - ESC 27/March/04
- "Chew the rag"=to
chat? - Smokey Stover 27/March/04
- 'Ay ceramble" - Jason 27/March/04
- Sling your hook - Bob Giess 26/March/04
- Preposition - modrijan 26/March/04
- Between jobs? - Jane 26/March/04
- Between jobs? - MichaelFR 26/March/04
- Between jobs? - ESC 26/March/04
- Between jobs? - MichaelFR 26/March/04
- "Socket"? "outlet"? - Jane 26/March/04
- "Socket"? "outlet"? - Lewis 26/March/04
- "In" or '"for "? - Jane 26/March/04
- "In" or '"for
"? both - Lewis 26/March/04
- "In" or '"for "? - R. Berg 26/March/04
- "In" or '"for
"? both - Lewis 26/March/04
- Expression - Joan Mackin 26/March/04
- Too many Irons in the fire - Tami 26/March/04
- Poking your nose into other peoples
business - paul davies 25/March/04
- Poking your nose into other peoples business - Bruce Kahl 26/March/04
- Different from... different too... & learning English by osmosis - Lotg 25/March/04
- I found something in my favorites - Miri Barak 25/March/04
- I found something in my
favorites - Bob 25/March/04
- I found something in my favorites - Tim 26/March/04
- Hi Bob, of course I will call on you - Miri Barak 25/March/04
- I found something in my
favorites - Bob 25/March/04
- 'a clean sheet of paper' - Ward Fredericks 25/March/04
- Dragging up (for quiting) - Bigtree 25/March/04
- Dragging up (for quiting) - Brian from Shawnee 25/March/04
- Mice vs mouses - SR 24/March/04
- Good riddance... - SR 24/March/04
- Even the wicked get worse than they deserve - Lotg 24/March/04
- Huckleberry friend - Celeste 24/March/04
- Huckleberry friend - MichaelFR 24/March/04
- A golf joke - Miri Barak 24/March/04
- A golf joke - MichaelFR 24/March/04
- Thank you - miri barak 24/March/04
- A golf joke - MichaelFR 24/March/04
- Shooting fish in a barrel - Matt Fienman 24/March/04
- Happy fishing - Henry 24/March/04
- Happy fishing - al 24/March/04
- Happy fishing - Henry 24/March/04
- If wishes were... - Tevis
Rhea 24/March/04
- If wishes were... - ESC 24/March/04
- Ars/artes moriendi - Cuban
Linx 24/March/04
- Ars/artes moriendi - Smokey Stover 24/March/04
- Do u really know everything? let's
put u to the test! - ioany 23/March/04
- Fair play - Henry 23/March/04
- Fair play - Henry 23/March/04
- Do u really know everything?
let's put u to the test! - MichaelFR 23/March/04
- Turnabout - ESC 23/March/04
- Do u really know everything? let's put u to the test! - ioany 23/March/04
- They keep on coming my questions: Arson 101 manual - Miri Barak 23/March/04
- Blow the pop stand - miri
barak 23/March/04
- Blow the pop stand - MichaelFR 23/March/04
- Blow the pop stand - ESC 23/March/04
- Blow the pop stand - MichaelFR 23/March/04
- High Cotton - mark 22/March/04
- High Cotton - Bruce
Kahl 22/March/04
- High Cotton - ESC 23/March/04
- High Cotton - Bruce
Kahl 22/March/04
- Original of "Gentlemen, start
your engines!" - Bigtree 22/March/04
- Original of "Gentlemen,
start your engines!" - ESC 23/March/04
- Original of "Gentlemen, start your engines!" - Bruce Kahl 23/March/04
- Original of "Gentlemen,
start your engines!" - ESC 23/March/04
- The Good Humor Man - miri barak 22/March/04
- Indian Casino - Miri Barak 22/March/04
- Indian Casino - Shae 22/March/04
- American Dream-who could help me??? - BabyLouu 22/March/04
- American Dream - ESC 22/March/04
- Behind the eight ball - Sax 21/March/04
- Behind the eight ball - Fred 21/March/04
- Phrases - sphinx 21/March/04
- Dash cam Theater - Miri Barak 21/March/04
- "And stuff" - Nan 21/March/04
- "And stuff" - R. Berg 22/March/04
- "And stuff" - Fred 22/March/04
- "And stuff" - R. Berg 22/March/04
- Bury bones in sweet peas - Hannah 21/March/04
- Fly bar - Miri Barak 21/March/04
- "There", ? - Jason 21/March/04
- "There", ? - Word Camel 21/March/04
- Chinese girls with 'slanty eyes' - Jason 21/March/04
- Eyes - ESC 21/March/04
- "What gives"? an another oft-heard expression? - Jason 21/March/04
- Slippery slope - Adam 20/March/04
- Slippery slope - Fred 20/March/04
- Old Bold Pilotsl - Ward Fredericks 20/March/04
- Older & bolder - ESC 21/March/04
- F-factor - Ruthi 20/March/04
- Only fools and horses - p.woods 20/March/04
- Only fools and horses - ian 22/March/04
- Sign on the dotted line... - mark 20/March/04
- Sign on the dotted line... - Bob 20/March/04
- *eat my shorts*??? - daredevil 20/March/04
- *hooking up with someone?"? - Jason 20/March/04
- THANKS! - Jason 21/March/04
- *hooking up with someone?"? - Smokey Stover 20/March/04
- *hooking up with someone?"? - Bob 20/March/04
- Terror/Horror? - Jason 20/March/04
- Monday morning quarterback? - Jason 20/March/04
- Mission brown - Peter 20/March/04
- Mission brown - Digger 20/March/04
- Mission brown - Smokey Stover 20/March/04
- Mission brown - Digger 20/March/04
- Phrase: "POINT BLANK RANGE" - Connie 20/March/04
- Ps and Qs - Kathy, Charlie,
and Shannon 20/March/04
- Ps and Qs - ESC 20/March/04
- Tangent - Ycamerpus 19/March/04
- "Stan" as in Afghanistan, Pakistan ect... - steve 19/March/04
- Hit on the rock - hewit 19/March/04
- Cranky - m 19/March/04
- A handful - Miri Barak 19/March/04
- A handful - R. Berg 19/March/04
- Phrases - Katelyn 19/March/04
- To kill two birds with one stone - Tate 19/March/04
- Four-flusher - Donna McMillon 19/March/04
- Four-flusher - ESC 19/March/04
- Hair of the Dog - Jeff Taplin 18/March/04
- "Spinning out of control" - Miri Barak 18/March/04
- Whoa Nellie - EMRYS 18/March/04
- "Comfort factor" - Miri Barak 18/March/04
- Reading Comprehension and some phrases - ESL 18/March/04
- Reading Comprehension and some phrases - Bookworm 18/March/04
- Reading Comprehension and some phrases - Brian from Shawnee 18/March/04
- Butter someone up - Sax 18/March/04
- Forsooth - Sathyaish 18/March/04
- Stop your galavantin - 3Oaks 18/March/04
- Stop your galavantin - Shae 18/March/04
- All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy - Black_Elk 17/March/04
- English work - Kate 17/March/04
- Go Dutch = Dutch treat - ESC 17/March/04
- "High Smoking" and "At Home Day" - Natty 17/March/04
- Bare in Mind - Rob 17/March/04
- Bare in Mind - Aki 25/March/04
- Bare in Mind - Aki 25/March/04
- Bare in Mind - ESC 17/March/04
- Stern sex and soft sex - gras 17/March/04
- Stern sex and soft sex - R. Berg 17/March/04
- Stern sex and soft sex - Brian from Shawnee 17/March/04
- Stern sex and soft sex - R. Berg 17/March/04
- On the low end - Miri Barak 17/March/04
- Chaos from order - John C 17/March/04
- Chaos from order - Bob 17/March/04
- Chaos from order - ESC 17/March/04
- Chaos from order - Bob 17/March/04
- Is it a souvenir or a memento? - ESC 16/March/04
- Espression: whitewater - HCD 16/March/04
- Senior moment - ESC 16/March/04
- Origin English saying - Jessica 16/March/04
- A *long-term* friend? - June 16/March/04
- A *long-term* friend? - Brian from Shawnee 16/March/04
- What does this mean? - Eric 16/March/04
- What does this mean? - Goom 16/March/04
- I was just hammered - Sathyaish 16/March/04
- I was just hammered - Henry 16/March/04
- I was just hammered - Sathyaish 16/March/04
- I was just hammered - Henry 16/March/04
- To piss in someone's morning coffee? - Shkval 16/March/04
- "Casting seeds on stony ground" - Kerrie Hoskins 16/March/04
- "Casting seeds on stony
ground" - ESC 16/March/04
- "Casting seeds on stony ground" - kerrie 17/March/04
- "Casting seeds on stony
ground" - ESC 16/March/04
- "Fine Line" - Kerrie Hoskins 16/March/04
- "On The Threshold" - Kerrie Hoskins 16/March/04
- Homogeneous children - Putenschnitzel 16/March/04
- Homogeneous children - ole tex 16/March/04
- Homogeneous children - ESC 16/March/04
- Homogeneous children - ole tex 16/March/04
- Live horse and youll get grass - 3Oaks 15/March/04
- The Handwriting's on the Wall - Sax 15/March/04
- The Handwriting's on the Wall - ESC 15/March/04
- Beware the Ides of March - ESC 15/March/04
- Good point - Carl Carlson 17/March/04
- Trucks - Trucks 16/March/04
- Beware the Ides of March - Smokey Stover 16/March/04
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder - KAM 15/March/04
- The Domino Effect - Sathyaish 15/March/04
- Right On! - Robert 15/March/04
- Right On! - ESC 15/March/04
- Lost in the wheelhouse... - JW 14/March/04
- Turn it up - Lotg 14/March/04
- Bend over backwards - Lap of the Goddess 14/March/04
- Turn up for the book - Les 14/March/04
- Manchurian Candidate - Roy 14/March/04
- Manchurian Candidate - ESC 14/March/04
- When it's all said and done - Lotg 13/March/04
- When it's all said and done - Barney 14/March/04
- When it's all said and done - Henry 14/March/04
- When it's all said and done - Barney 14/March/04
- This Old Man - Caroline Wendt 13/March/04
- This Old Man - Smokey
Stover 14/March/04
- This Old Man - James Briggs 14/March/04
- This Old Man - Smokey
Stover 14/March/04
- Hale fellow well met - squazeedle 13/March/04
- Hail, fellow, well met - R. Berg 13/March/04
- "Got to" and again on the breaststroke joke - sphinx 13/March/04
- 'know when to hold em; know when to fold em' - Ward Fredericks 13/March/04
- Gangbusters - Randy 12/March/04
- Four flusher - joel 12/March/04
- Oh my flippin' God - Sathyaish 12/March/04
- Good morning - ice 12/March/04
- "Lick and a promise2 - jon 12/March/04
- Lick and a promise - jon 12/March/04
- Lick and a promise - Sean 12/March/04
- Lick and a promise - jon 12/March/04
- Cob on & Piffy on a rock cake - Chris Swan 12/March/04
- Thrash TV? - Word Camel 12/March/04
- Thrash TV - ESC 12/March/04
- Need help on daughter's homework - Roy 12/March/04
- Need help on daughter's homework - RDL 13/March/04
- Need help on daughter's homework - Bob 12/March/04
- Lowdown - Fred 12/March/04
- Dead men tell no tales - David Knight 11/March/04
- Cat's paw - Laura Fentonmiller 11/March/04
- Kill/do in - SR 11/March/04
- Dive bar - Scott Flynn 11/March/04
- World Series - Pamela 11/March/04
- Nine Inch Nails - Pamela 11/March/04
- Pay the fine - Ward Fredericks 11/March/04
- "On The Wagon" - Pete 11/March/04
- "On The Wagon" - Paul 18/March/04
- "On The Wagon" - R. Berg 11/March/04
- "On The Wagon" - Jim 13/March/04
- To turf something out - Roger 10/March/04
- To tell someone off - Larry
Baruch 10/March/04
- To tell someone off - ESC 10/March/04
- Prison/jail - SR 10/March/04
- Raw ends - Miri Barak 10/March/04
- Help me with this quiz please ? - James Hogan 10/March/04
- I have a problem - gitraux 11/March/04
- Help me with this quiz please
? - Barney 10/March/04
- Help me with this quiz please ? - Henry 10/March/04
- If you say so - Florence 10/March/04
- If you say so - Bob 10/March/04
- Intestine broils - Brojees 10/March/04
- Not as green as cabbage looking - Hugh Scutter 10/March/04
- Explanation - Cheryl Pleuss 09/March/04
- Al Fresco - dave 09/March/04
- Al Fresco - Henry 09/March/04
- The pros from Dover - R Paisley 09/March/04
- Bat out of hell - alias 09/March/04
- Bat out of hell - SR 09/March/04
- WHO SAID - CECIL JAFFE 09/March/04
- "Shot Heard around the World" HELP PLZ! - am 09/March/04
- They have some tar brush in them - graham 08/March/04
- "I've 'got' my period" for menstruation - abe 08/March/04
- Five ways to Friday - ESC 08/March/04
- Five ways to Friday - chance 09/March/04
- Grow like topsy - David Scott 08/March/04
- Topsy" I just growed - ESC 08/March/04
- Holland, Netherlands and the Dutch - James Briggs 08/March/04
- Idiom meaning - laura 08/March/04
- Idiom meaning - ashwin
makwana 20/March/04
- Idiom meaning - ashwin makwana 20/March/04
- Idiom meaning - Henry 08/March/04
- Idiom meaning - ashwin
makwana 20/March/04
- To hell in a handcart - Bob Gray 08/March/04
- Regarding the queries sent to you - sarrim 08/March/04
- Chancellor's foot/feet - - 08/March/04
- Best foot forward - Henry 08/March/04
- "Wiggle room" - Ward 08/March/04
- "Wiggle room" - ESC 08/March/04
- Filthy Row - Andy 07/March/04
- If I`ve heard it once...... - VAL 07/March/04
- Dust in the mouth - ofra 07/March/04
- Up & down - lapofthegoddess 07/March/04
- Saying - chris 07/March/04
- Drunker than cooter brown - kgnelson 06/March/04
- Drunker than cooter brown - rocklobster 07/March/04
- Drunker than cooter brown - ESC 06/March/04
- Drunker than cooter brown - jackie brown 07/March/04
- Drunker than cooter brown - jackie brown 07/March/04
- Hold your horses - Yoshio
Nakanishi 06/March/04
- Hold your horses - ESC 06/March/04
- Hold your horses - ESC 06/March/04
- Hold your horses - ESC 06/March/04
- Phrase - maja daruwala 05/March/04
- Word Spy: flying while Muslim - ESC 04/March/04
- "Rodger wilcox...over and out" - kevin williams 04/March/04
- Drag you out - Miri Barak 04/March/04
- "Bully for you" ? ? ? - AEC 04/March/04
- "Bully for you" ? ? ? - James Briggs 04/March/04
- "Bully for you" ? ? ? - Smokey Stover 04/March/04
- "Bully for you" ? ? ? - James Briggs 04/March/04
- "Don't let the bastards grind
you down" - Mark Leam 04/March/04
- "Don't let the bastards grind you down" - Bob 04/March/04
- Orgin of phrase "Oh my giddy aunt" - Mark Malm 04/March/04
- "Chickens come home to roost" - Gloria Pugh 04/March/04
- Maine Cliches - Tina Wallace 04/March/04
- Maine Cliches - SR 04/March/04
- Wire in the Blood - Alice 03/March/04
- Dining ... I think - Steven 03/March/04
- Dining ... I think - Bruce Kahl 03/March/04
- Go for broke - Sax 03/March/04
- "In" writing style on Internet - ESC 03/March/04
- "In" writing style
on Internet - Barney 03/March/04
- "In" writing style on Internet - Sexual Self-Abuser 04/March/04
- "In" writing style on Internet - Ward Fredericks 04/March/04
- "In" writing style
on Internet - Barney 03/March/04
- What is "shot silk" - abe 02/March/04
- Origin of a phrase - Lauri 02/March/04
- Sort out - Miri Barak 02/March/04
- Remember MASH? Swimming with Bowlegged
Women? - Oleg 02/March/04
- Remember MASH? Swimming with
Bowlegged Women? - ESC 02/March/04
- Remember MASH? Swimming with Bowlegged Women? - SR 04/March/04
- Remember MASH? Swimming with
Bowlegged Women? - ESC 02/March/04
- Still waters run deep - kaitlyn 02/March/04
- Still waters run deep - ESC 02/March/04
- Had the Biscuit - Jennie 02/March/04
- "Sour note" - Kathy 02/March/04
- "Sour note" - R. Berg 02/March/04
- Healthy Skepticism - Peter R Mansfield 02/March/04
- Senior moment? - Word Camel 01/March/04
- Railroad expressions - Edie Jud 01/March/04
- Dutch tilt/angle - Mick Fanning 01/March/04
- Busier than a one armed paper hanger - Kaz 01/March/04
- Phrases - William Haack 01/March/04
- Horse phrases - ESC 01/March/04
- Don't swap (change) horses - ESC 01/March/04
- Horse phrases - ESC 01/March/04
- Phrase meaning - Mike Blue 01/March/04
- What did they mean by this? - JAM 01/March/04
- KIPPERS - Shae 01/March/04
- KIPPERS - Gary 01/March/04
- Orgin of phrase "Oh my giddy aunt"
- Oh, boy!
- Preposition
- Sent to Coventry
- Out-of-the-box vs. outside the box
- Phrase
- Hold your horses
- Up & down
- World Series
- Lowdown
- Dead men tell no tales
- Good morning
- "got to" and again on the breaststroke joke
- The Domino Effect
- This Old Man
- The Handwriting's on the Wall
- Senior moment
- "Fine Line"
- Origin English saying
- Go for broke
- Monday morning quarterback?
- Terror/Horror?