>>>>>Good job you don't post questions then. Someone just got banned for being impolite to the guy trying to help him.
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>>>>You mean telling those who help him to shove it for about a dozenth time? I didn't mind that, because he had interesting questions and I knew he had a short wick, but in that last case he did go overboard and took the cake.
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>>>Call that british understatement.
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>>>I assume you so shamelessly mixed your metaphors on purpose.
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>>I'm practicing that as a new art form or shape.
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>>>His short wick would have extinguished as soon as he hit the water with his soggy cake.
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>>:))))
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>You'll probably enjoy Colemanballs then. A good example is:
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>"He still has a few irons in the fire but he's keeping them close to his chest"
>http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/Articles/Colemanballs/Colemanballs01.htm

Oh we had those for ages - the 200 words per minute but only one brain (or a tincture thereof) to churn them. As soon as the intertubes hit our woods, there were collections of such pearls by the doyayens ("do jaja" - to the balls...) of the sport press on every other website.

My goal is to slightly abuse the common proverbs, phrases or any other often repeated group of words. Well maybe not exactly abuse (that's what I do to sugar, salt and few other substances); i just twist and try them a bit.