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The "me three" thing has reminded me that my parents always referred to three-pronged pickle forks as "threeks" (because fo(u)rks have four prongs, so threeks have three...), and although I think it was originally a joke, they used it pretty much all the time, and it wasn't obvious to me growing up that it wasn't standard. (And it caused me to misspell "fork" a lot when I was young.)

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#define FEMALE

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Quis vult in terra stare,
Cum possit volitare?

Kohl und der englische Premierminister treffen sich auf ein Bier. Sagt der Engländer: "To your health, Helmut!" Prostet Kohl zurück: "John, to your dunkelth!"

I some times call my kitty cats "kitties cat", as in whoppers junior.

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No, no, in order to be part of the threek/fourk family, it had to be silverware. We did generalize to "salad threek" (at one particular restaurant that I remember) and a large serving utensil with three wide flat "tines" was the "serving threek". I remember thinking that maybe those two-pronged things that you use to poke meat and see if it's done would be a twok, but decided that since you couldn't scoop food with it it didn't count. Of course, by that time I knew it wasn't a real word...

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It's (broadly) [faɪ.ˈjuw.lɛ]
#define FEMALE

()

Quis vult in terra stare,
Cum possit volitare?

I wonder if you can work out what a fivehead is, if you don't know already. Hint: it's along the same lines as fork.

Pitchfork?

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No, that's definitely not a 'regular word', but it makes sense, of course.

I'll occasionally use the phrase "at the current", as a combo between "at the moment", and "at the current moment"

My sister and I use 'future' (from 'see you in the future') as a parting phrase.

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Ascima mresa óscsma sáca psta numar cemea.
Cemea tae neasc ctá ms co ísbas Ascima.
Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho. Carho.

"ain't nothin' I'm gonna be doin' even have engineer in the title"

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

Friday at work I heard "dago t-shirt" for "wife-beater" for I think the first time. Certainly the first time at work, where ethnic slurs are more out of place than overalls. It made me wonder what I even called such things before "wife-beater" gained widespread currency. "Tank-tops"? "Sleeveless t-shirts"? I can't even remember.

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

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