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Originally posted by MaryPoppins View PostWWS.
Am working alongside a bunch of PWC tossers at the moment. All I hear all day are gardening analogies, such as: 'let's grab this thing by the roots'
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'We need to rotivate our allotment'+50 Xeno Geek Points
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Originally posted by Zippy View PostPerhaps you could make some new ones up to confuse him (bet he wouldn't admit he had no idea what you were talking about)?
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'We need to rotivate our allotment'And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostHas anyone ever found anything that isn't on Wiki?
The legacy of the East India Company and its practices still prevails in official correspondence in India. Official letters include phrases such as "please do the needful" and "you will be intimated shortly", which are directly lifted from East India Company correspondence from the seventeenth century.Comment
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Originally posted by Zippy View PostPerhaps you could make some new ones up to confuse him (bet he wouldn't admit he had no idea what you were talking about)?
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'We need to rotivate our allotment'
Just don't tell him you mow the lawn in neat stripes or he might flower early.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostA bird in the hand is worth two in the neatly trimmed bush.
Yeah, I ran over them with the lawn mower.
While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Regular injections of fertiliser do wonders for a neatly trimmed bush.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostRegular injections of fertiliser do wonders for a neatly trimmed bush.Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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