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What good is it to read the same, rarely changing top 24 ideas over again? I'd want something new and surprising each day, not something well-known. |
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how about each day a number of croissants and fishbones, proportional to the number awarded that day on the bakery... so one day you may be greeted with ten fishbones and two croissants (there was a troll) and then on Christmas Eve you munch your way through fifty croissants... |
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oh, and fishbone because you can't spell Calendar. Bah Humbug! |
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Can I change this? I agree that a new idea a day would be
better maybe chosen from a selection of specially posted
Christmassy ones. |
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well then. Baked. see link. |
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lewisgirl: But there's no pictures on halfbakery. Imagine an advent calendar with words behind the doors. Eugh! |
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p'stu - what's that in the top right, whoops, left corner of every page then?
And it changes tagline thingy every time. What more could you want?... <lg drifts into dreams of her every desire being satisfied by the 'bakery...>
Would you be so kind as to remove that apostrophe, UB? Oh, cleverness. Understood. |
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Unless the Halfbakery display is laterally inverted in England, I always thought the croissant was the top _LEFT_ corner - unless of course you were referring to the vote indicators, in which case I see no tagline thingy. |
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I was about to insist on Bubba's apostrophectomy, [lg], but I then noticed that he was mocking [gizmo] (similar to your "calender" correction, which seems to be fixed now).
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The display's fine, but I suspect that [lg] might be laterally inverted. (I'm joking, [lg], OK, please don't hit me!) |
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oh, I'm a bit thick today aren't I.
I had a tooth pulled yesterday so I'm all at sixes and sevens. Everything hurts.
On topic: I'd actually quite like an advent calendar with some 'bon mot' behind each door, a proverb or a fortune cookie sorta thing, or a subtly funny haiku, or an unusual word to try to fit into everyday conversation. The Thinking Person's Advent Calendar. |
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heard a joke once about an (insert social class or nationality here) [Irish] chap who finally got a job cleaning the floors in the bank. He was terribly proud and told all his mates that he worked in a bank, and wore a suit (which he did, just to look the part and impress his boss, earnest little guy that he was...) His long suffering wife was pleased too.
One day he came home all of a tizzy and jumping about with excitement - Mary, Mary, guess what my boss taught me today?! ('what, dear?') He got some tippex and took my black shoes and wrote on the toes for me - look, this one says L and this one says R - so now I know which shoe to put on which foot. 'Oh, that's good', says Mary, 'Perhaps you can bring him home and he can write 'A' and 'V' on me.' |
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"So that's why my wife has 'C&A' on her knickers!" |
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I feel like I got off lightly - I just had two crowns fitted on Friday. |
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quick hide your Hondas everyone |
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upper right wisdom. It was too big and biting down on lower right wisdom and causing all sorts of gum problems. (So now can I claim I'm working at 75% intelligence?) I need to get my whole lower right line properly checked (haven't been to dentist for too long). May need upper left wisdom taken out if the same thing is likely to happen. And then, whaddayaknow, I'll be 'halfwisdom-ed'! |
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According to Brewer (see link), it's from a Hebrew expression for an indefinite number, and "what is indefinite is confused". |
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It refers to a jumble of things, where you have a few, but not perhaps the right number or them in the right order. |
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I heard it came from a very old french dice game!!!??? |
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"Knocked up for a six" is probably "knocked for a six", which a cricket reference. If you hit a cricket ball out of the boundaries of the playing area (which is pretty huge) you score six runs. Therefore "knocked for a six" means something like "dealt with superlatively". |
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I like that claim, lg. Seeing as I had both lower wisdoms removed about 2 years ago because they were impacting, I've been operating at only 50% of my previous intelligence. I wonder if I can use that as mitigating circumstances when I fail my exams? |
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I was at the dentist on Monday for my 3rd appointment to
have my wisdom tooth removed, but keep jibbing out at
the last minute (in the waiting room). Please tell me it's
not too painful! |
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I had a general anaesthetic when I had mine out. Quite pleasant, apart from the post-operative pain. |
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Yeah I was under a general anaesthetic for mine too. My mom had a tooth out under some sort of laughing gas thing-a-ma-jig, and apparently that didn't hurt. I don't know if that was a wisdom tooth though. |
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which one are you losing, arora? I had a top one out, and after the anaesthetic had been in for five minutes I felt almost nothing - really not worth worrying about. If you're having the lower one(s) out, it's not uncommon to have a full-on knock-you-out general anaesth., because the lower teeth are rooted deeper into much thicker jaw bone. Anyway, a little bit of pain is far better than the possible resultant problems if you leave them in. |
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Top left, there was no mention of general anaesthetic,
that was my main concern as everyone else seems to have
been knocked out for wisdom tooth extractions. But she
assured me upper ones are less of a problem.! Many
thanks, you've made me feel a little less nervous. |
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I've had the laughing gas before, it's fantastic, it feels like your flying for a while, but then you just pass out. Bit like weed really. |
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Ok, back on topic, how about an advent calendar that had a word in every door and when all of them had been opened a sentence would be made? Kind of like The Greatest Story Ever Told, but with chocolate. |
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How about a freshly pulled tooth behind each door? |
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I can just see the scenes in playgrounds across the world when kids have different brands.
"Yay! I got a molar!"
"Lucky. I just got another lousy incisor." |
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