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- Question on the origin of the phrase "Ho Ho Ho" - Brian from Shawnee 13/December/04
- 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
- Be careful what you wish for - TheFallen 12/December/04
- Complet it - sara 12/December/04
- Toodle-oo - allan90069 11/December/04
- Chicken sex - DH 11/December/04
- What does it mean? - joy 11/December/04
- Baby and bathwater - Jose Carlos 10/December/04
- Run like the clappers - abe 10/December/04
- Bunghole banter - SR 10/December/04
- Good question - DH 10/December/04
- *holes darting about - Lewis 10/December/04
- Multi meaning - SR 10/December/04
- The Bung Hole in High Holborn - Word Camel 10/December/04
- Further proverbs for your list - John Callaghan 10/December/04
- Skipper's daughters - Keith Rennie 09/December/04
- Skipper's daughters - R. Berg 10/December/04
- Never look a gift horse in the mouth? - Torsten Daerr 09/December/04
- Let the ducks go by? - Jose Carlos 09/December/04
- This was of ten put forward - Braza 09/December/04
- Miri, I didn't mean you - R. Berg 08/December/04
- Glass slipper - Smokey Stover 08/December/04
- Shoot through - DH 08/December/04
- Yes no - Lap of the Goddess 07/December/04
- Bandy about - Lap of the Goddess 07/December/04
- Shoot the pianist - Keith Rennie 07/December/04
- Some kind of liar - SR 07/December/04
- Off of - English Major 07/December/04
- "To bite the paddle" - Bernd 07/December/04
- Bite the bullet? - Lap of the Goddess 07/December/04
- Pull someone into line - Lap of the Goddess 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
- Attack cat - DH 06/December/04
- "Beware the agapanthus" revisited - Bob 06/December/04
- To shriek like a fishwife - Word Camel 06/December/04
- Right made up - Lap of the Goddess 05/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
- Fraughty issue - Brian from Shawnee 03/December/04
- Fraughty issue - DH 03/December/04
- Fraughty issue - Bob 03/December/04
- Fraughty issue - Brian from Shawnee 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
- Nail your butt to the wall???? - ESC 02/December/04
- Nail your butt to the wall???? - mugball-us 02/December/04
- William poems - Word Camel 02/December/04
- Nail your butt to the wall???? - ESC 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
- The velvet coffin culture - DH 01/December/04
- The velvet coffin culture - platypus 01/December/04
- Velvet coffin or velvet cage? - Lee 02/December/04
- Harry Grout - Lewis 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
- Please identify correction to your text - keith rennie 29/November/04
- Please identify its chaucer, canterbury tales (clerks tale) - Keith rennie 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
- 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
- "No-neck dude" - Keith Rennie 29/November/04
- "No-neck dude" - ESC 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 "Egyptian night"? alternative - Keith Rennie 30/November/04
- Romance of the Nile? - Lewis 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
- What is a fast buck? - Bob 21/November/04
- Turned up missing - lisa 20/November/04
- Turned up missing - ESC 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