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Chris -- 2018-04-11
April Fool’s Day – bring out yr nonces. This year I’ve posted most already, with little compunction. Here are the stragglers. A stay and age I read as a passage here below.
Why do game developers think they can get away with this kind of bs? By releasing more content/modes at a later date. Street Fighter V getting Arcade mode in June the latest and now episodic missions in this. In this stay and age? It’s absolutely ridiculous. SMH
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/02/24/h … us-members
I found that one when looking around for remarks about the modern world, which is dripping with this stain, to wit:
In this stain age nothings about personality it’s all about looks and beauty.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ … &gl=ca4:01
I’m sorry but who the hell in this stain age wears FLARED JEANS!? like were not from the bloody 60’s people!!!
https://twitter.com/official_1dnz/statu … 6380451841
have found violence to be obsolete in this stain age….
http://www.imnotokay.net/board/topic/11951/27/
Next, a nice first person account of their analytical malady:
Oh!! I now have tinners elbow – fluid on the elbow that the miners would have had as a result from crawling through tunnels.
http://barbarahilldiary.blogspot.ca/201 … tched.html
A final straggler:
By the time they were actually doing it, a stupid smile had been permanently plastered on my face that made me look like one of the Braidy bunch on acid.
http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2009/ … -world.htm
Acorns: day and age, tennis elbow, Brady bunch
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“Stay and age.” Lovely. I always look forward to April 1.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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This seems quite harsh in this staying age but it most definitely happens but in a more subtle way.
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Why in this dane age of technology are we still using rubber cam belts and not timing chains?!!!!
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And that last one triggered other examples in the same discussion, such as:
In this stained age, a woman who marries her high-school sweetheart and sticks with him for decades is . . . antediluvian, in the best sense.
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A quick search found quite a few more examples of “this dane age”, such as:
Luck thrives in this dane age
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@BlairUnderwood on raising black men/sons in this dane age & the responsibilities it holds
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why do people start smoking in this dane age?
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What many people in desperate financial situations in this dane age are able to do is start or have someone else start a crowdfunding page for their cause.
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I think it’s ridiculous that, in this dane age, we are still unable to accept gay people into our society.
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Oooops. In this day in age (my own advanced one) I should have trod more gingerly. See these stained, staying, stay-in, stain, dane and dying ages.
Last edited by David Bird (2017-09-06 19:22:03)
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