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Thursday Open Thread | 90 comments (84 topical, 6 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

e.g. "This 'pardon my French' expression is con and me fait chier" (Pardon my French)

by MarekNYC on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 04:29:08 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

...con and me fait chier

Shit, now what does this mean?

Pardon my .... English?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 05:51:47 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 0)

'stupid' and 'really bugs me' or to put it literally 'cunt' and 'makes me shit' (though 'con' is rarely used in its literal sense, and its figurative one is pretty mild)

by MarekNYC on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 06:30:13 PM EST
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Wow! I have never seen "cunt" on any blog. I must have been living a sheltered blogging life so far.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 04:28:55 AM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Indeed. A check in the ET archives shows it has been used 30 times (several are, or may be, simple typos), but no mention of McCain's characterization of his wife, which I was expecting to find.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 04:48:49 AM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 1)

Have any of the uses been other than in discussion of the word?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 04:50:04 AM EST
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I didn't check them all, but most of them are indeed in linguistic discussions or in quotes of what other people had to say about Berlusconi.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 04:53:52 AM EST
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