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Old 10-24-2009, 08:56 PM
 
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joie de vivre.

Love it! Particularly after the first time it was used to describe me.
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Old 10-24-2009, 10:14 PM
 
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I like the word "wisteria". I like to say it in a breathless sort of whisper.

I like my mother's saying, "I never saw a hearse with a U-haul behind it."
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Old 10-24-2009, 11:59 PM
 
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Smorgasbord. Loved going when I was a kid. Only the one we went to was at the Holiday Inn, not Scandinavia.

Smörgåsbord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:55 PM
 
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joie de vivre.

Love it! Particularly after the first time it was used to describe me.
Joie De Vivre
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Old 10-25-2009, 09:11 PM
 
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In like Flynn
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Old 10-26-2009, 04:38 PM
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bjh-Wherever you are. I had to tell you, the woman who said "chiffarobe" in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, died a couple of days ago. Her character was MayElla, I think. I'm going to look her up later, but I've got to go out for a while. sw

Oh yeah? She must have had a good long life.

I like the name Atticus as in Atticus Finch...I think the name means someone from Athens? Kinda
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Old 10-26-2009, 08:27 PM
 
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The first time I saw the word "Chiffarobe" was when I read Silence of the Lambs.
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Old 10-26-2009, 09:42 PM
 
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Heard the word "chiffarobe" at an auction
from two words chiffonier and wardrobe
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Old 10-27-2009, 10:42 PM
 
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MightyQueen-I don't remember chiffarobe from Silence. I'll have to watch it again. Virgode and I remembered it from To Kill a Mockingbird. Once you hone in on a word like that, you suddenly hear it often. Another phrase I like...

Face the music!

It's better than facing a firing squad.
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Old 10-28-2009, 12:28 AM
 
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"Sixes and Sevens". As in " the house was all in sixes and sevens"
-and the adjective , "nonplussed".
If you can use these two in one sentence, ppl will look at you funny. Hee Hee!
I'll go on a six roll......
"Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other"
"Six-shooter"
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