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So this woman comes home after a day of shopping to find her husband in bed with a beautiful, young, blonde girl.
Of course she's furious, but just as she's about to leave her husbands says "Wait, I can explain..."
"When I drove home this afternoon I saw this girl at the side of the road.
She looked tired and sad so I stopped and offered her a ride.
She said she had not eaten in days so I offered her the leftovers you left in the fridge.
Her shoes were old and worn so I offered her some of your good shoes that you're not wearing anymore because they've gone out of fashion.
She was cold so I gave her that sweater I got you for your birthday, but which you don't wear because the color doesn't fit you.
And then I gave her a pair of your pants that you don't fit anymore."
"Then just when she was about to leave she asked me: is there anything else your wife doesn't use anymore?"
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I don't know what amazes me more...
The fact that you find stuff from 2011 and 2001(!), the fact that you would look for it, or the fact that you've remembered it  
Anyway, I apologize for the Leslie 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I apologize for the Leslie
Why apologize? I never saw the joke before.
BTW - Never apologize here in the Lounge; it's not worth the effort. 
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You're right, I apologize 
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You seem to be in a funny mood today.  
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Never apologize! It's a sign of weakness.
- John Wayne in "She wore a yellow ribbon". Later copied by Gibbs (Mark Harmon) in NCIS.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.
- Al Capone. Later copied by me in The Lounge
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Sander Rossel wrote: Anyway, I apologize for the Leslie
Apologise instead for the use of "anymore", which isn't a word, so has no more meaning than a bunch of random letters.
My work here is done.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So why would anymore not be a word anymore?
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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It was never a word anyway, so anything you say is anyirrelvant.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That would depend on your reference. "Anymore" does not appear in the compact edition of the OED (c) 1971, but it does in the The Oxford English Reference Edition (c) 1995. It also shows up on dictionary.com and merriam-webster.com. Merriam-Webster have quite a nice discussion of usage Here[^]
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Thank you for saying something. 
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Yes, well, I think we cam leave Merriam-Webster's joke book out of this.
It's not just an Americanism, which would be fine, but it's a Hicksville Americanism, from the dumbest of the dumb, so intelligent, educated people should avoid defending it.
With only one notable exception, words beginning with "any" are pronouns, for pretty obvious reasons.
"Anymore" is just an anomaly, which makes even less sense than the other 33,000,000 anomalies in the English language.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With the amount of (arguably misplaced) pride Americans have in everything American, I'm surprised the language hasn't yet simply been renamed to 'American' instead of English. Then those 33M anomalies go away (after all, it isn't English anymore! )
Disclaimer: I am American. But no, I'm not proud of it.
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The anomalies aren't all American, and the vast majority of Americans don't like them, either.
i.e. alot of dumb spellings should of made it into the dictionaries, to, because "anymore" did -- and wala! English by the stupidest people, for everyone else to have to put up with.
There's nothing wrong with American dialects, by the way. Even the English used in England is little more than fragmented dialects of a half-dozen older languages. That's how languages grow -- not by being reinvented infested with the errors of the stupidest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to whom? You? I laugh.
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Sander Rossel wrote: or the fact that you've remembered it
I remembered reading it here too, years ago. 
Marc
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Sander Rossel wrote: I don't know what amazes me more...
The fact that you find stuff from 2011 and 2001(!), the fact that you would look for it, or the fact that you've remembered it
My thoughts exactly. Somebody clearly has waaaaaay too much time on their hands
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Should this post not be in the soapbox? What happened to the kid sister rule?
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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According previous the post was originall written in 2001
Kid sister grown legal by now
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Sander Rossel wrote: the color doesn't fit you
I didn't realise the colour affected the size!
Did you mean, "the colour doesn't suit you"?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I meant a sweater not a suit 
Yes, you're right, I meant suit... 
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Do you listen to them?
If so which ones?
Would you recommend any podcasts?
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1) No.
2) See 1.
3) No.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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