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• #1   Steve

  I don’t think those dishes are much worse than fourthy, actually.

  Feb 23, 2012 at 8:11 pm   rating: 31  
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  • #1.1   Furtive lurker

    I initially read Steve’s comment as “frothy.” That’s what I get for listening to a Rick Santorum speech right before visiting this site…

    Feb 24, 2012 at 12:48 pm   rating: 13  
     
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• #2   Trish

  Is “Filf” the Daddy version of “MILF”? Puts a whole new spin on “filfthy”

  Feb 23, 2012 at 8:22 pm   rating: 20  
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  • #2.1   PABrit

    Filfthy? I’d do those dishes.

    Feb 23, 2012 at 8:57 pm   rating: 18  
     

  • #2.2   Poltergeist

    No Trish, you’re thinking of DILF. This is the internet, not some trailer park in hicksville, so learn the correct terminology!

    Feb 24, 2012 at 1:07 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #2.3   Georgina

    Umm… I think Trish was making a joke.
    Get the stick outta your butt.

    Feb 27, 2012 at 2:22 am   rating: 3  
     

  • #2.4   Poltergeist

    Umm…I think I was making a joke as well.
    I apologize if my bizarre sense of humor isn’t up to everybody’s standards. It’s a good thing I really don’t care

    Feb 27, 2012 at 9:22 pm   rating: 6  
     
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• #3   Really?

  You know what gets on my “nervous?”

  Feb 23, 2012 at 8:29 pm   rating: 6  
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• #4   Just Dropping By

  Up with put not will I … that

  Feb 23, 2012 at 9:39 pm   rating: 15  
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• #5   Sir Puke

  Wow these folks are really sick-up and fed.

  Feb 24, 2012 at 12:47 am   rating: 5  
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• #6   Ace of Space

  I would just mix all those dishes up to confuse the heck out of everybody. Cause I’m filfthy.

  Feb 24, 2012 at 1:46 am   rating: 5  
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  • #6.1   sparkle

    At least you’re not fourthy.

    Mar 3, 2012 at 7:05 pm   rating: 0  
     
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• #7   Atropine

  Wow, the first one can’t spell ‘nerves’ but can compose a whiney note in haiku! Fantastic!

  Feb 24, 2012 at 7:36 am   rating: 2  
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  • #7.1   looney

    except it’s not haiku because “nervous” gives the first line too many syllables — double fail

    Feb 27, 2012 at 6:08 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #7.2   infanttyrone

    Gonna roll the dice, go out on a long limb, and guess that the bi-syllabic ‘nervous’ is what impelled the copy writer to call it an almost-haiku.
    As inept CPA’s say, Fail on Yr End.

    It WAS in a high school, so there is a chance it was written by someone who knew the 5-7-5 structure, could have chosen the more common, and properly mono-syllabic, ‘nerves’, but just wanted to show off a bit. Possible A+

    “It won’t do, then, for the literary establishment simply to complain that, for instance, young-written characters don’t have very interesting dialogues with each other, that young writers’ ears seem tinny. Tinny they may be, but the truth is that in younger Americans’ experience, people in the same room don’t do all that much direct conversing with each other. What most of the people I know do is they all sit and face the same direction and stare at the same thing and then structure commercial-length conversations around the sorts of questions myopic car-crash witnesses might ask each other. . . . So now whose literary aesthetic seems dated?”
    –David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction,” in Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.2 (Summer 1993): 168.

    Feb 27, 2012 at 9:05 pm   rating: 0  
     
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• #8   Dane Zeller

  Clean, filthy, and…vague. The borderline between the two is not clear. Unless…the dishes are “clean” and the table is “filthy.” Lack of clarity makes me nerves.

  Feb 24, 2012 at 7:41 am   rating: 14  
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• #9   Furtive lurker

  Plagiarism! I’m sure “Filfthy” is what I named one of the dwarves in my Lord of the Rings fanfiction comic.

  Feb 24, 2012 at 12:45 pm   rating: 3  
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  • #9.1   infanttyrone

    You might have heard it a long, long time ago and inadvertently lifted it from the libretto of the underground anime mash-up that Bowie did for Tim Curry’s 1996 birthday party.

    You remember the Hollywood dream sequence don’t you ?
    Snow White and the Cracked Actor Break Curfew with Brad and Janet
    Where Frank N. Furter dons a Sinatra wig and voice, belting out

    I’m stiff on my legend,
    the films that I made
    Forget that I’m filfthy
    cause you just got paid

    Feb 24, 2012 at 2:17 pm   rating: 0  
     
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• #10   GueroSawyer

  No one noticed that the editor’s own caption had a typo.
  Original: kindergarter’s
  Right way: kindergartner’s

  Feb 24, 2012 at 3:41 pm   rating: 1  
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  • #10.1   Just Dropping By

    I think it’s kindergarten, isn’t it?

    So it should be a kindergartener, right?

    Man, just did some googling, and it looks like both ways are considered valid. I hate that – when so many people use a wrong spelling that it becomes “acceptable” because of usage.

    BTW, when I am king, bimonthly will be the *only* acceptable word for every two months, and semimonthly will be used for meethings held twice a month.

    Carry on

    P.S. What I really want is kindergarden. When did the “d” turn into a “t”? Sigh.

    Feb 24, 2012 at 4:54 pm   rating: 4  
     

  • #10.2   Ruth

    When did the d turn into a t? Are you serious? It’s German. It’s always been a t.

    My country doesn’t even use this word, I don’t really speak German, and still I know this. And you supposedly just looked it up in a dictionary, so why don’t you?

    Feb 24, 2012 at 6:59 pm   rating: 9  
     

  • #10.3   cary

    Not sure I want to be involved in any “meethings” thank you very much, no matter how often (or not) you hold them.

    Hmm – holding mee-things. Now, it’s getting twisted.

    Feb 24, 2012 at 10:22 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #10.4   bookworm

    I keep reading GueroSawyer’s first option as “kindergarter belt.”

    Feb 25, 2012 at 11:15 am   rating: 2  
     

  • #10.5   GueroSawyer

    LOL

    Feb 25, 2012 at 11:51 am   rating: 1  
     
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• #11   Just Dropping By

  My apologies, kind Ruth.

  I suppose my desire for kindergarden springs from the 7th grade, when I studied the fine language that you do not really speak. It was then that I realized that the English word I knew meant “garden” for “children”, and I was charmed by the thought.

  It’s been a few years since I’ve been in 7th grade, or been a kindergartener/kindergartner either for that matter. And apparently I remembered the concept of child garden more than the actual spelling of the word in the English language, sadly. So ironically, it was the fact that I spent time studying the language that you do not actually speak – and was charmed by it – that contributed to my error.

  Fun thought: if kindergarteners can go to kindergarten, why can’t kindergartners go to kindergartn?

  Feb 26, 2012 at 2:46 pm   rating: 1  
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  • #11.1   Just Dropping By

    And now I’ve gigglebraxed on top of everything else Again, my apologies.

    Feb 26, 2012 at 2:48 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #11.2   Ruth

    I studied German from age 11 to 16. I don’t remember a great deal, but I didn’t really learn a great deal in the first place. I know how to ask for a dentist, the location of the town hall and how to tell you I like to drink orange juice for breakfast, so not entirely a waste of time, yet it would be a rather large stretch of the imagination to say that I actually speak German. But it only takes a second to look something up before you make a fool of yourself! Especially important if you’re emphasising your distaste for “unacceptable” spellings. (I’m more of a reformist myself, haha)

    Feb 26, 2012 at 6:45 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #11.3   Just Dropping By

    Since you are now scolding me for a second time about not looking things up, let me point out that I actually *did* look the words up, all of them. So I am not actually guilty of the crime of which you keep accusing me.

    What I *am* guilty of is falsely remembering that the word used to end in “garden”. Only problem with a false memory is that you don’t actually realize you’re wrong until a kind person comes along to gently or not so gently point out your error.

    And, oh yes, I made a typo in my original post … and think that “kindergartner” doesn’t make a lot of sense as a spelling without “kindergartn”. 1000 lashes with a wet noodle for me.

    Feb 27, 2012 at 3:54 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #11.4   Atheist Scum Unite!

    Ruth & JDB:

    You two just made me cream in my PAN shorts. Excellent exchange. Perhaps a bit more aggressive next time?

    Feb 27, 2012 at 4:57 pm   rating: 1  
     
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• #12   sparkle

  The first note is proof the education system is failing. No high-schooler should mix up ‘es’ with ‘ous’ and ‘stop’ with ‘you’re’ IN THE SAME CAP-LOCKED GIANT NOTE!
  Unless, the education has already failed and a teacher wrote that note. Oh, the humanity!

  Mar 3, 2012 at 7:17 pm   rating: 0  
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• #13   sparkle

  Goodness me, all the stirring up trouble posts are mine right now. PAN Y U NO LIKE ME?

  Mar 3, 2012 at 7:19 pm   rating: 0  
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