Million Post March. When will NAXJA reach 1 million posts?

[jeepdude10000]

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

 

[Root Moose]

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.
— Stevie Ray Vaughn

 

[jeepdude10000]

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

 

[Root Moose]

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
— Voltaire (1694-1778)

 

[jeepdude10000]

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on

 

[XJ Dreamin']

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enima, a harmless enima that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to insert it as though it had a vibrating tip.
— Umberto Eco

I'm sorry Umberto. That was totally uncalled for. I am ashamed

 

[Root Moose]

Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
— unknown

 

[Root Moose]

I'm sorry Umberto. That was totally uncalled for. I am ashamed

lol

 

[jeepdude10000]

MONDAY
Beat around the bush
Jump to conclusions
Climb the walls
Wade through the morning paper

 

[Root Moose]

Never miss a good chance to shut up.
— unknown

 

[XJ Dreamin']

well at least someone speaks the truth

spoke.

He's dead.

 

[jeepdude10000]

TUESDAY
Drag my heels
Push my luck
Make mountains out of mole hills
Hit the nail on the head

 

[Root Moose]

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Confucius

 

[jeepdude10000]

WEDNESDAY
Bend over backwards
Jump on the Band Wagon
Run around in circles

 

[Root Moose]

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

 

[jeepdude10000]

THURSDAY
Advise President George W Bush
On how to run the country..
Toot my own horn..
Pull out all the stops..
Add fuel to the fire..

 

[jeepdude10000]

FRIDAY
Open a can of worms..
Put my foot in my mouth...
Start the ball rolling..
Go over the edge..

 

[Root Moose]

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
— Albert Einstein

 

[jeepdude10000]

SATURDAY
Pick up the pieces..

 

[Root Moose]

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
— Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)