[donuts and kangaroo collars]

Jul 23, 2006 03:33

gather ye 'round, girls and boys, the word for today is gift horse. as perhaps you may notice, it is, in fact, actually two words, but (linguistically-speaking), one entity. if this were sesame street, we might learn about three, but it's not and i don't have a bad romanian accent, so shut up.

a gift horse, formerly given horse, is exactly that ( Read more... )

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gitan July 23 2006, 18:07:03 UTC
"literally, if someone gives you a horse (however unlikely), you shouldn't look in its mouth. they have terrible, razor-sharp fangs. and they breathe fire. in the idiomatic sense, don't criticize a gift, even if it bit half your head off and set fire to the apartment. that's what you get for looking in its mouth. and just what did you think to accomplish by bringing it in the up the stairs?"

LOL... ps I am in love with Baffle the kitty.

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inwe July 24 2006, 03:28:08 UTC
yay precious! i was wondering where you were.

(me too)

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keiki13 July 23 2006, 21:53:09 UTC
Thank you, that was really pissing me off for some reason. I feel much better today, I still think that Im going to leave early.

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