Rachel and KO both use my DU-original putdown catch phrase "nice try though"

[jpak]

Which means they both read DU with some regularity.

signed

jpak

political culture phenom

:D

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Yeah, yeah, sure jpak.

Just like the time Michael Jackson came to your house needing to use the bathroom.

[jpak]

2. I said it before and I will say it again

nice try though

:evilgrin:

[Cant trust em]

3. LOL! NT

[PCIntern]

4. Really...

so I knew you in fifth grade at Friends School in Bucks County, PA??

:hi:

[valerief]

5. No one in the world ever said that before! Kudos! Brilliant! A devastating wit! nt

[jpak]

6. ouch

and nice try

:evilgrin:

[havocmom]

7. jeepers, you must be OLD

It was big on the playground when I was a kid, playing with Fred, Barney and Wilma.

[jpak]

8. Actually I'm a young guy and drive an F-150 pickup

:evilgrin:

[Cant trust em]

11. Small world.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5198335

[havocmom]

17. Where I live, every other vehicle on the road...

It's not easy being blue in a red county

[Lost in CT]

20. Well old Volvo station wagons that can't get out of their own way are

fair game in my book...

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

9. "times two, back on you!"

was always a good debate ender when I was a kid.

If they start saying that, we'll KNOW they take all their cues from us!

[Lex]

10. Nice try, jpak.

nt

[CLANG]

12. ur kidn rite

[EFerrari]

13. LOL!

:applause:

[omega minimo]

14. Then you must also have invented:

"Did not"

"Did too"

"Did not"

"Did too"

"Did not"

"Did too"

:wow:

[Dr Fate]

15. As Winston Churchill once said: "Yes." n/t

n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

16. I invented the question mark, but it was ruthlessly stolen by others

[Numba6]

18. They also use "Hello" & I've been using that for years... no, DECADES.. which means

they, like the CIA, have bugged the fillings in my teeth to capture my thoughts

Time for a new tin foil hat....

:rofl:

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. The weird thing about 'hello' is that it is a relatively recent word, as a greeting

Earliest uses as a greeting:
1827 U.S. Telegraph 25 Sept. 3/5 Hello, sez Joe Laughton, wher's Bil Perry un Olla Parsons?
1840 DICKENS Barn. Rudge x, ‘Halloa there! Hugh!’ roared John.
1857 HUGHES Tom Brown I. ix, Hullo, who's there?

Earlier uses spelled 'hollo') are described as "A call to excite attention, also a shout of encouragement or exultation", or a call in hunting (on horses) in eg Shakespeare.

And it notes this:

"Thomas Edison is popularly credited with instigating the practice of saying hello when answering the telephone (see quots. 1877 and 1906) and for the word's subsequent popularity as a greeting. His rival, Alexander Graham Bell, preferred ahoy to be used."

I just love the idea of answering the phone with 'ahoy!' And the first Edison quote:

"1877 T. EDISON Let. 15 Aug. in Antique Phonograph Monthly (1987) 8 1, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away. What you think?"

I think that sounds as if he thinks the caller will be able to roar 'hello!' to get someone to pick up the phone. :shrug: The second quote is:

"1906 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 13 May 14/1 At a dinner some time ago Thomas A. Edison claimed the credit for inventing the greatest time-saving device of the telephone service. He said he was the man who suggested using the word ‘hello’ instead of the clumsier expressions of the earlier days-‘Do I get you?’ and ‘Are you there?’."

[Numba6]

25. well, I'm a relatively recent human being -- "Ahoy, Ahoy, This is Mr. Burns Speaking"

[leftofthedial]

19. whatever.

(registered trademark of the leftofthedial corp.)

[LanternWaste]

21. Didn't you also come up with, "That's hot..."?

Didn't you also come up with, "That's hot..."?



Very, very nice.

[Control-Z]

22. Wow!!

Really? You can't be series?!?! So I must have read it here, first, before I started using it back in second grade? It's good to know the origin of such a spiffy phrase. :rofl:

[TexasObserver]

23. Obama got that "look" thing from me.

Look, I've been doing it for years!