It's bad enough when your fairy gold turns to dried leaves at midnight. It's worse when you have to give real gold for dried leaves, hoping it might make your money work again.
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Guy #1: He inherited something like 35 million after taxes.
Guy #2: What an asshole.
Guy #1 (laughing): Yeah, and you know he's gonna be fuckin' broke in like two years.
--30th & 6th
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Well, I've just discovered the Easter egg (or should I say Überraschung-Ei?) in Franklin's CD "Seven of Mine."
That's all I'll tell you.
That's all I'll tell you.
- 20:33 I really want to do tai chi regularly again. It feels good. I miss it. #
- 11:27 LJ topic for discussion and suggestions- acquired taste music. #
- 12:10 Black sandals. This is what i need before my next day shift. This heat would be a lot more bearable if my feet could breathe. #
- 18:45 Just because the portfolio pages are in plastic sleeves, does not mean they are invincible. Where are these kids parents, anyway? #
What is the correct way to write "three times is a charm" when you contract the is to 's?
When I googled that phrase most results were either "three times a charm" or "three time's a charm" which both don't seem to make much sense to me.
I do know what this phrase means but I don't know how the grammar is supposed to work.
And is this phrase particular to certain dialects or sociolects or is it a commonly used colloquial term?
ETA: Thanks for all those fast replies! :o
I just guess that the version I heard was humorous and whoever said it assumed the listener would know that it's actually "third time".
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When I googled that phrase most results were either "three times a charm" or "three time's a charm" which both don't seem to make much sense to me.
I do know what this phrase means but I don't know how the grammar is supposed to work.
And is this phrase particular to certain dialects or sociolects or is it a commonly used colloquial term?
ETA: Thanks for all those fast replies! :o
I just guess that the version I heard was humorous and whoever said it assumed the listener would know that it's actually "third time".
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Cost of Iraq war:
Three trillion dollars.
Cost of "bailout":
Likely one trillion before it's done.
Lesson learned?
The next time a politician from either party claims we don't have the money for universal single-payer healthcare,
RIP OFF THEIR HEADS AND SHIT DOWN THEIR NECKS!
Three trillion dollars.
Cost of "bailout":
Likely one trillion before it's done.
Lesson learned?
The next time a politician from either party claims we don't have the money for universal single-payer healthcare,
RIP OFF THEIR HEADS AND SHIT DOWN THEIR NECKS!
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- Mood:contemplative
Friday night saw the demise of Sarah Palin's dreaded "Troopergate," scandal with the release of a lengthy legislative report finding that the Governor had "abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. The ethics rule provides that "each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust." The report concluded that "(Palin) knowingly, as the term is defined in the above cited statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the governor's office and the resources of the governor's office, including state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get trooper (Mike) Wooten fired." (Wooten was Palin's brother-in law, embroiled in a nasty split with her sister). But the report goes on to conclude that Palin's dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, "was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads."
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The open-source software community released some exciting new software this week. Ars tested the latest beta releases of Ubuntu and Fedora, the new versions of Mono and Python, and an intriguing new location-aware extension for Firefox.
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