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LOVE IT OR LOATH IT?

LOVE IT
1 (12.5%)
LOATH IT
6 (75%)
SAY IT ALL THE TIME
1 (12.5%)
DON'T CARE!
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 7

Voting closed: June 24, 2007, 06:06:56 PM

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Binkie

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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #30 on: June 19, 2007, 10:54:40 PM »
  Poor, poor T
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #31 on: June 19, 2007, 10:58:27 PM »
That's my girl...
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #32 on: June 21, 2007, 04:45:20 PM »
Beg to differ, but I have no major issue with the phrase "actual fact", even though it seems redundant and also repetative.

All too often, facts are less than absolute.  Today's facts can all too easily become tomorrow's fallacies.  When is a fact really a fact?  How do you denote a fact that has also been proven?

What really gets under my skin is "very unique".
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #33 on: June 21, 2007, 05:18:03 PM »
Velly intelesting......
A serious point of view a-non.....and valid...but look at the stats..[not many i know] most people don't like it....
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Lots of folk reading your soup recipe...what's on the menu today  :-H
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #34 on: June 21, 2007, 05:20:42 PM »
No cooking today, just work and band practice.
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #35 on: June 21, 2007, 05:23:15 PM »
Hope your G string doesn't break???
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #36 on: June 21, 2007, 06:26:44 PM »
If you want infuriating phrases, have a look here, where the Telegraph newspaper ran a competition for them.

I just had to share this with you.
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #37 on: June 21, 2007, 06:44:19 PM »
Loved it VIRAL....
The kind of verbal crap i hear all the time at work....
Me..i just love the honest to goodness vernacular...saying it like it is and calling a spade a spade.... Did you guess?
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #38 on: June 21, 2007, 07:24:14 PM »
That really was refreshing.

Oh, and T, I always like to call a spade a shovel!
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #39 on: June 21, 2007, 07:26:01 PM »
Even when you play cards?
[Good morning threeb..]
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #40 on: June 21, 2007, 11:45:02 PM »
Threeb, there is actually a difference between a spade and a shovel.  A shovel is generally wider than a spade, and a spade is usually pointed on the end...
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #41 on: June 22, 2007, 01:08:05 AM »
It's actually a joke, Anonsi! When you want someone to say the truth, you reply, "Let's just call a spade a shovel!  8)
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #42 on: June 22, 2007, 01:57:00 AM »
Some people don't realize that there is a difference, and I thought I would enlighten you if you were one of the unenlightened....But I've also never heard that joke. :)
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #43 on: June 22, 2007, 02:21:15 AM »
You are such an innocent Anonsi...and i love you for it...
I was once..[that was definately about 11.35 a.m. on a monday in 1973] before i became a shade more cynical...
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Re: In actual fact??
« Reply #44 on: June 22, 2007, 03:35:49 AM »
She's just a BABY! I thought I was naive, but at my old age, I've no real excuse!
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