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Subject:Re: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke? From:"Mike Starr" <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:45:32 -0500
In a front-page article in today's local bird-cage liner (the Kenosha News)
a reporter quoted a source talking about how someone was "whaling and
crying". <grrrr>
Mike
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I don't puke, but I definitely cringe:
"For all intensive purposes"
and
"with baited breath" (yuck).
Sorry I'm late to the peeve party!
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