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is it me??

#1 Post by BigDrawMan » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:17 pm

or does the 3rd box down under this box sometimes say "disable similies in this post"???

I know i have used similies before, i.e "the peaperson waddles like carl the duck"

but they disappear, as that box is usually checked

there is funny business going on here that is like "funny" as the peahen is to waddling{like carl the duck}.
I dont torture mallards all the time, but when I do, I prefer waterboarding.

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#2 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:24 pm

It is a word that you are unfamiliar with - the root of the word is smile - something you know little about.

smilies not similies

:-) :-) vs Beedums lies like a politician and Beedums acts like a 2 year old.

Glad I could clear that up for you.
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#3 Post by SportsFan68 » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:27 pm

It's just you.

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#4 Post by BigDrawMan » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:34 pm

peacock2121 wrote:It is a word that you are unfamiliar with - the root of the word is smile - something you know little about.

smilies not similies

:-) :-) vs Beedums lies like a politician and Beedums acts like a 2 year old.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

it said similies before

bdm's smile lights up a room

is also a simile

yet it is also true
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#5 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:35 pm

BigDrawMan wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:It is a word that you are unfamiliar with - the root of the word is smile - something you know little about.

smilies not similies

:-) :-) vs Beedums lies like a politician and Beedums acts like a 2 year old.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

it said similies before

bdm's smile lights up a room

is also a simile

yet it is also true
You have one?

No way




no how





where you been hiding it?
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#6 Post by BigDrawMan » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:44 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
BigDrawMan wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:It is a word that you are unfamiliar with - the root of the word is smile - something you know little about.

smilies not similies

:-) :-) vs Beedums lies like a politician and Beedums acts like a 2 year old.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

it said similies before

bdm's smile lights up a room

is also a simile

yet it is also true
You have one?

No way




no how





where you been hiding it?




that makes us laugh as it is coming from
"that grim peaperson".

ha
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#7 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:50 pm

BigDrawMan wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:
BigDrawMan wrote:
it said similies before

bdm's smile lights up a room

is also a simile

yet it is also true
You have one?

No way




no how





where you been hiding it?




that makes us laugh as it is coming from
"that grim peaperson".

ha
that's an oxymoron, silly.
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#8 Post by tlynn78 » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:00 pm

bdm's smile lights up a room

is also a simile
\


No, it's a metaphor.


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#9 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:02 pm

tlynn78 wrote:
bdm's smile lights up a room

is also a simile
\


No, it's a metaphor.


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#10 Post by ulysses5019 » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:03 pm

tlynn78 wrote:
bdm's smile lights up a room

is also a simile
\


No, it's a metaphor.


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#11 Post by tlynn78 » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:08 pm

What's a metaphor?

From dictionary.com:


a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

i.e. beedums smile = a light source

cough -cough-hack, ...ack


I mean, it could happen.



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