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Link wrong word comedian www.youtube.com Norm Crosby
Commented: Monday, March 28th, 2016 @ 2:41 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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KmP: English has too many words (50,000); only 500 are used in casual conversation.
Commented: Sunday, March 20th, 2016 @ 8:48 am
By: Ted McDonald
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BT Bike Article has me searching for a Mot Juste. Can you think of one?
Commented: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 4:45 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Up in Rocky Mount, those who moved off the Mill Hill call themselves "high polluted!"
Commented: Friday, October 16th, 2015 @ 4:39 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Where is Manos? Is Juste and French Fries all there is?
Commented: Friday, October 16th, 2015 @ 10:03 am
By: Ted McDonald
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What is the opposite of Mot Juste? I usually say the wrong word at the wrong time.
Hoof in Mouth.
Commented: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 8:55 am
By: Ted McDonald
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I note that many are using words to impress rather than communicate. Never use a .25-word when a .10-one communicates better! That comes from being in front of a Baptist congregation for 16 years full time and then ever since as needed.
Any good speaker must be a communicator. From the speaker's stand you can see when eyes gloss over and you realize THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY! 9 out of 10 times it has to do with me trying to impress over communicate clearly. One of the biggest bafoons of Conservatism, Dr. Paige Patterson of Texas, is the classic user of big words when more succinct ones will do. He is always trying to impress, but a bully on the playground can't hide behind big words. What is most funny is that he claims to run his wife as all women should be run---then does a President's article about how she forbade him to bring his dog inside to her lovely carpets at Magnolia Hill, the pompous name she gave the President's home in Wake Forest on the main highway. What is even more comical is that "Magnolia Hill" was the last known whorehouse in Wake County!!! Pomp and circumstance went to "you are too arrogant" in that corner of Wake County and the people are glad he graduated back to Waco, Texas, and Southwestern Seminary. She renamed that house "Pecan Manor." That could have been the last mental institution in Texas for all I know---but I don't give a nut about it now. . . 
Commented: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 6:22 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I am one to have misused mute instead of moot, and I actually don't think I will ever make that mistake again. It was kind of embarrassing to be corrected by a Democrat county commissioner.
I was much younger then, and as I seasoned, when my fellow Democrat and RINO county commissioners made far more egregious mistakes, I never corrected them, I just chuckled to myself, knowing that I had worked so hard to get these meeting on TV. Being corrected publicly in the first year of my 18 year run was probably a good thing. I was far more careful with my words after that.
Commented: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 10:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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