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  • Parent advisory: non-PC bad word to follow - platypus 13/December/04
  • 'be careful what you ask for -- you might get it' - Ward 12/December/04
  • Run like the clappers - abe 10/December/04
  • Bunghole banter - SR 10/December/04
  • Further proverbs for your list - John Callaghan 10/December/04
  • Skipper's daughters - Keith Rennie 09/December/04
  • Let the ducks go by? - Jose Carlos 09/December/04
  • Yes no - Lap of the Goddess 07/December/04
  • Shoot the pianist - Keith Rennie 07/December/04
  • "To bite the paddle" - Bernd 07/December/04
  • Get Ghetto/Go Project - Brian from Shawnee 06/December/04
  • "Balls to the Wall" - B.Barclay 06/December/04
  • "Beware the agapanthus" revisited - Keith Rennie 06/December/04
  • To shriek like a fishwife - Word Camel 06/December/04
  • First, do no harm - Ward 05/December/04
    • Water not wine - source of the lyric? - Keith Rennie 05/December/04
  • First, do no harm - Ward 05/December/04
  • Ask of - ASK OF 05/December/04
  • Off the heasy - heasy 05/December/04
  • Smithereens revisited - Shae 05/December/04
  • Top PC Words and Phrases - 2004 - ESC 04/December/04
  • In a pink fit - Lap of the Goddess 03/December/04
  • Fraughty issue - DH 03/December/04
  • It cracked me up! - Solaris 03/December/04
  • For the birds - Keith Rennie 03/December/04
    • For the birds - Bruce Kahl 03/December/04
    • For the birds - DH 03/December/04
  • Roughrider or rough rider pert sex - DH 02/December/04
  • Homecoming Queen - David FG 02/December/04
  • Customary - customary 02/December/04
  • You can't have your cake and eat it! - Solaris 02/December/04
  • Nail your butt to the wall???? - Carrie 02/December/04
  • Paging Masakim... - ESC 02/December/04
  • Phrase Finder Rules OK - Brian from Shawnee 02/December/04
  • "She pulled the wool over his eyes" - hj22 02/December/04
  • Words of 2004 - ESC 01/December/04
  • More front than Myers - Lap of the Goddess 01/December/04
  • The velvet coffin culture - Lee 01/December/04
  • Describe - jason 01/December/04
  • Out of sheer idle curiosity... - TheFallen 30/November/04
  • An (the) iron hand (fist) in a (the) velvet glove - Lee 30/November/04
  • The lurch, what is it but a place to be left? - Keith Rennie 30/November/04
  • File 13 - Lee 30/November/04
  • New phrase for you - po tomac45 30/November/04
  • Please identify - meg 29/November/04
  • God rest ye merry gentlemen - Word Camel 29/November/04
    • God rest ye merry, gentlemen - ESC 29/November/04
    • God rest ye merry gentlemen - keith rennie 29/November/04
  • Thumb in the bum (time) - Keith Rennie 29/November/04
  • Red-meat rhetoric - Lee 29/November/04
  • "Shot to hell" origin? - procrastinator 28/November/04
  • On the stars and stripes - Junius 28/November/04
    • On the stars and stripes - ESC 28/November/04
  • The closet - Jose Carlos 28/November/04
  • 'bumped off' - Ward 27/November/04
  • 2 people walking say BREAD & BUTTER - Susan 27/November/04
  • Life is short, art is long - Jose Carlos 26/November/04
  • 'reasonable and prudent man' test - Ward 25/November/04
  • Tower Of Babel - Sathyaish Chakravarthy 25/November/04
  • Shock-haired - platypus 24/November/04
  • "You pays your money and you takes your choice." - fred portnoy 23/November/04
  • What does - Princess 23/November/04
    • What does - DH 23/November/04
    • What does - Bob 23/November/04
  • MEAT-PACKY - MEA-PACKY 23/November/04
  • Macedon and Monmouth - Amanda 23/November/04
  • It's a corker - Lap of the Goddess 23/November/04
  • "No-neck dude" - RedFox 23/November/04
  • To turn an honest penny - Junius 23/November/04
  • Just for the English to see? - Jose Carlos 22/November/04
  • Camel toe - Flyguy 22/November/04
  • Learned professions - Ruth Julius 22/November/04
  • Thorn - Ruth Julius 22/November/04
  • Origin of "Egyptian night"? - Tennis Smith 22/November/04
  • Origin of "on the dot" - dave evans 21/November/04
  • English Phrases and their origins - Elain 21/November/04
    • English Phrases and their origins - Gary 21/November/04
    • English Phrases and their origins - ESC 21/November/04
  • Mighty white of you - DH 21/November/04
    • Mighty white of you - LNEIL 23/November/04
    • Call a spade a spade - Lewis 22/November/04
  • I treated you white + idioms or slang - Junius 21/November/04
  • Scrum - ESC 21/November/04
  • Call my own - jUNE 21/November/04
    • Call my own - Bob 21/November/04
    • Call my own - Word Camel 21/November/04
  • What is a fast buck? - Oren Shochat 21/November/04
  • Turned up missing - lisa 20/November/04
  • "Dord" and other ghost words - ESC 20/November/04
  • To lay a ghost to rest - Larry Baruch 20/November/04
  • Gest gist - DHd 20/November/04
  • No Names, no Pack Drill - revisited - James Briggs 19/November/04
  • Let's get cracking! - SR 19/November/04
  • I'd no sooner - July 19/November/04
  • Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em - Lap of the Goddess 19/November/04
  • Bears' legs, speciality and chaises longues - TheFallen 18/November/04
  • Fem equiv of "ladies' man" - DH 18/November/04
  • The Velvet Hammer - Steve 18/November/04
  • Bound and determined - SR 18/November/04
  • Pearl Harbor phrase - ESC 18/November/04