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The following is from The Mummy. I wonder whether we can change "Sons of the pharaohs" into just "Jesus" if we speak in a class in America?

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Oh, look at this! Sons of the pharaohs! Give me frogs, flies, locusts, anything but YOU! Compared to you the other plagues were a joy!

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http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/007/cache/common-loon_794_600x450.jpg

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

Thanks.
But I failed to understand you.

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@oristarA,

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Thanks.
But I failed to understand you.

A typical cowardly reaction from Setanta, Ori.

By posting the picture of a loon, which is the name of the bird, he is making a pointed suggestion that you are loony/ a loon/crazy as a loon.

The idiom 'crazy as a loon' probably came from the loon's desire to be left alone, to inhabit locations far from people. In this case, that would hardly make you crazy/loony at all.

Who would want to be around a crybaby, a nutcase, a fruitcake like Setanta?

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@JTT,

JTT wrote:

Who would want to be around a crybaby, a nutcase, a fruitcake like Setanta?

Or an OCD ranter like JTT?

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@contrex,

This little outburst of yours wouldn't have anything to do with me pointing out your mistakes in,

http://able2know.org/topic/217372-1#post-5375881

and other postings in that same thread, would it, C?

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@JTT,

JTT wrote:

Quote:
Thanks.
But I failed to understand you.

A typical cowardly reaction from Setanta, Ori.

By posting the picture of a loon, which is the name of the bird, he is making a pointed suggestion that you are loony/ a loon/crazy as a loon.

The idiom 'crazy as a loon' probably came from the loon's desire to be left alone, to inhabit locations far from people. In this case, that would hardly make you crazy/loony at all.

Who would want to be around a crybaby, a nutcase, a fruitcake like Setanta?

I appreciated Satanta's euphemism, otherwise it would have activated my counterattack measures.

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@oristarA,

You're a gentleman and a scholar, Ori.

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@JTT,

Thank you JTT, now I know what a loon looks like

It's not everyday…..

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@dalehileman,

dalehileman wrote:

Thank you JTT, now I know what a loon looks like

Thanks to JTT, I know what one writes like.

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@contrex,

How come you can't even defend your own language screw ups, your own silly prescriptions?

Actually they're not your prescriptions. They are things you've plagiarized and you can't explain them because the silly prescriptivists you've copied them from can't explain them either.

That should have been your first clue. But no, you prefer to remain clueless.

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No one even noticed the little loon riding on mama's back.

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@Setanta,

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No one even noticed the little loon riding on mama's back.

The little one was representing you then, Set.

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