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"For all intensive purposes..."

#70
Thor said:
Here is a list one of my co-workers compiled from overhearing another co-worker talking to his customers on the phone.
You can't make this stuff up:

I know I haven't talkENED to you in a while . . .

. . . I'm just pluggin' a day.

. . . the whole Kip 'n caboodle.

Kickin' em' to the curve.

I'm just pulling the Wolves over their eyes.

I can rest assure you . . .

Yeah, sometimes we take containers into Los Angeles and then we boat them around to New York.

I'll see what I can'T get done.

… that quote you got from someone else, I'd be pretty WEARY of that…

..."I'm replacing the problem." (He was talking to a customer about fixing the problem he had with the shipment of product and the fact that he was getting replacement shipment on the road.)

Let's play it by tomorrow (a.k.a. – Let's play it by ear)

I am going to Wreak the rewards….

… I am just wondering if I could get a lay on our end..

Hi, I have a reservation at 6 o'clock for 6 PM.

"Oh come on, and get over it..... it is part of the course!!!!" ****

"Yeah, I'm just gonna try and go fight apples with apples."

"would you mind takeN this order off hold
so traffic can set up a truck.."

(this one was written in an email)

" Yeah, these guys keep ease dropping"

"let me maul it over"

"fewer and farther between"

"Man you eve drop on my calls way too often"

"It's 4:15 and it's like 2 o'clock out there." (day after moving the clocks ahead one hour for daylight savings.)

"I can't right now Thor. I am in the middle of putting in these 5 explicit truckload orders"

<our competitor> HAS A NEW "DOCUMARY" COMING UP

I never won't….

I don't know, I guess the guy was 3 screws short of 4 screws.

"KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ON ALL ENDS."

"That is the reason I flew hundreds of thousands of miles down there to see you" (speaking to one of his customers in the South).

"Thanks - I'm in the rears $1.00??? Lol- just leave the keys in the car bc I don't have another set on me."

"It's a bitter sweet".

"Mary – I apologize for this. I hope we can work something out on both of our behaves in order to satisfy our companies."

"Relax, It's not going to happen in a snapshot."

"I had to search high and dry to look for it."

"We're not trying to cherry coat the situation. "

"They caught us off by guard. "

"tiddle-y-wings"

"First and far most…"

"Akila Hava"

"He is being a stand up"

"Quite Quantrary"
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You should of tooken the day off. Next time, just tell 'em you got da chikin pops.

All y'all ignint!
 
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Mktrat said:
My daughter says "Speak it up. Please." when she can't hear her cartoons.

I think it is because we always tell her to "speak up" when she answers a question. She is a bit shy.
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Kids are amazing with their language up-take. This might appeal to you. It's a lovely story about the daughter of a writer and poet, who's wrestling with the language herself, who can't help but admire her daughter's uncanny way with words. It's an mp3 file called Invalid Link Removed It begins with this observation. "So, 'Unfriend' was the word of the year for 2009…"

I beg to differ. I say it were 'Yesternight' :)
 
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"I didn't drop the box of pencils on purpose, I did it on accident!"


...the beauty of the English language! You can BUTCHER it, and still make yourself understood!
I taught primary grades for 18 years. The vast majority of my students were recent arrivals from Spanish-speaking countries. I could, literally, do this All Day Long! :whistle:
 
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