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HiImDan

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Oh, my achy breaky brain....

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
9) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the row of oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to tests on the subject.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Lets face it--English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant not ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweet breads, which aren't sweet at all, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes,we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a
guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Sometimes, I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. What other reason could there be for saying that people
recite at a play and play at a recital? Or, ship cargo by truck and send cargo by ship? Or, have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? 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. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race which, of course, isn't a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

MathsIsFun

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

LOL!

You can also chop down a tree, then chop it up.

Even modern english has its strangeness. Something that is fashionable is "cool", and can also be "hot", or possibly even "sick!"

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HiImDan

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

Why bother speaking proper English? Nobody'll understand you....:P

jU

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

why being you nobody will understand it...............he he.............:lol:..................:P

mikau

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

This is pure genius! Really! It proves english is complete and utter idiocy and we need to switch to a form of mathematical communication.

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A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

jU

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

ok  I am alive love Jenee~ jU

Jai Ganesh

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

This is pure genius! Really! It proves english is complete and utter idiocy and we need to switch to a form of mathematical communication.

110001100110100111001 111010011010001 100010110011101

(Translated in English :You are right!)

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

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mikau

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

Hehehe! But I think we could save time and space if we didn't use binary. :-P

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A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

jU

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

hmph hmph

ha ha ha ah aha aha ha aha aha aha

Zach

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

110001100110100111001 111010011010001 100010110011101 = 18CD39 74D1 459D

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Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

jU

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

wow big number

MasterofDisguise

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Re: Oh, my achy breaky brain....

110001100110100111001 111010011010001 100010110011101 = 18CD39 74D1 459D

what does that mean?

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