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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:18:14 +1100, "Peter Dingleberry"
<peterjay@ZZbigpond.com> wrote:
>"Skyrider" <odps@cyberscriber.com> wrote in message
>news:mgr14v00svjc455lbr86rkn1vf5pf22lno@4ax.com...
>| On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:44:35 +1100, "Granny" <granny71@hotmail.com>
>| wrote:

>| >I think this NG has gone back to where it started!

>| 90 minute wonder :)

>| I like it like this.... too many people and it gets to be like all the
>| others!

>Now that the riffraff have gone back to where they came from, perhaps people
>will come in here who want to discuss playground slang.

>While it's not exactly playground slang, I recalled some colorful
>expressions from an old family friend the oher day when I was having a
>"Remember so-and-so" session with my father.
>This man was a regular visitor to our house in my childhood. In those days,
>not many people had cars, and not many houses had parking space. This man
>rented parking space nearby, and usually dropped in on his way home from
>parking his car of an evening. Some of his doozies
>"It sticks like shit to a blanket."
>"It was like pushing shit uphill with a pointed stick."

reminds me of a guy I knew who described lovemaking with his wife as
'poling a log upstream'...... they divorced eventually..... 

>"Up shit creek without a paddle."
>In those days, such language was consider quite risque, and my mother was in
>a constant state of blush........

I'm not sure if yours are in the dictionary but if not I'll add them
when I get round to updating it next :)

Skyrider

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