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Post by Phil on Nov 15, 2006 14:30:51 GMT -5
Parkway is a street but it's called that anyway. So you drive in a parkway but park in a driveway.
Pigskin is a football but the football is not made of pigskin.
To ship something usually means to transport it but it's not always by ship.
To buzz someone means to call them but that is a ring not a buzz.
A p-shooter is a kind of gun but it doesn't shoot peas.
There's lots more things like that.
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Post by Blastgirl on Nov 15, 2006 21:08:57 GMT -5
Canadian bacon did not originate in Canada and French toast did not originate in France.
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Post by Classicblast on Nov 16, 2006 1:54:45 GMT -5
The leading reporter is called the Anchor but they're not actually holding things down.
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Post by Phil on Nov 16, 2006 13:55:15 GMT -5
Sometimes fuel for trains storage is still called the coles when trains have not run on steam in years. They also say 'we're losing steam' as a way of saying they're slowing down. I guess it sounds better than we're decelerating.
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Post by Jason O'Lewa on Nov 17, 2006 16:35:21 GMT -5
my princelal is mr walis and we call him old wally and he is 38 so he is not realy old but we say that anyway
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Post by Classicblast on Nov 17, 2006 20:35:38 GMT -5
My middle brother is the smallest of the three of us but he still references me as his little brother when I'm bigger than him.
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Post by Kimm on Nov 18, 2006 12:48:57 GMT -5
Utalization of a leftover product is called a bakers dozen.
Thats from the idea that bakers use leftover batter to make an extra something so its more than a dozen. But a dozen is 12 not more than that so a baker has the same count we do.
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Post by -lewa- on Nov 20, 2006 14:10:19 GMT -5
People say that they would die for something, but sadly they don't.  This is called lewasite even though I'm probably the least active member. |
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Post by tractakid on Nov 20, 2006 14:27:40 GMT -5
And you have still posted 7076 times? That doesn't make sense, does it?
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Post by Phil on Nov 20, 2006 15:49:50 GMT -5
Runninng, passing and tackling is a bigger part of American football than kicking the ball. Although there is some kicking of the ball not much of the game does that yet it's called football.
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Post by Peon on Nov 21, 2006 1:42:53 GMT -5
And you have still posted 7076 times? That doesn't make sense, does it? Admins can modify the post counts of all members. His real post count is somewhere around 600-700. |
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Post by Classicblast on Nov 21, 2006 3:06:36 GMT -5
This is called lewasite even though I'm probably the least active member. But you are the founder. So it will forever be your site. Just like George Washington was the first President so the Capitol is located in Washington DC. Although when Washington was President the capitol was in New York City. Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company so it will always be called Ford. Even though Henry died over 50 years ago. Flights over the Atlantic by a single aviator are often called Lindburgh trips because Charles Lindburg was the first person to make the trip. |
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Post by Phil on Nov 21, 2006 14:27:33 GMT -5
hang gliders are sometimes called Flyers when they don't really fly they glide.
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Post by Blastgirl on Nov 25, 2006 2:27:42 GMT -5
We speak of websites as a place like I'm traveling the web.
Isn't that more like reading a book an endless one and reading the pages? I haven't really gone anywhere I'm still at my computer desk but the screen has changed like changing a tv channel. So I think thats another term that's not entirely true.
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