A national emergency

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A national emergency

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Covered with The Onion's usual journalistic excellence:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/id ... nation_all
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Jumping butler wagons! Now I know how non-native speakers feel when faced with American idioms.
That article's about as readable as a pig in omelet raisins!
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Another clear example of Americans not missing their daughter until the cows come home.
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Well, dip my lip. This is worse than swans in a brass purse. What shall we do?
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residents of Texas may soon cease speaking altogether
not without an upside :wink:
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Nanohedron wrote:Well, dip my lip. This is worse than swans in a brass purse. What shall we do?
It's like building doghouses out of bananas and feeding ice cream to the pigs. :boggle:
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Denny wrote:
residents of Texas may soon cease speaking altogether
not without an upside :wink:
Woot! :lol:
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As I trudge down the pudding skin of life it is a jellied doorjamb to read such skillet blisters as this.

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It's a storm in a tea-caddy. Just hold your fire-water and it'll be right as radio before you can say Jack Russell.
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Is this diatribe based on some current American political scenario, or just general sheep-dip from the Onion?

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It's like... I think that... What I want to ... Oh f**k it
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Most ... Poststructural .... thread ...... EVAR!

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Well I'm blowed sky-western crooked!

The question that lights the henhouse for me, and leaves my mind just as befuddled as a hobbit in a shoe store:

If all the idioms went all away,
What the hell's the preacher gonna have left to say?

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