Smiling Curmudgeon
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Tin,
Use lower case if the person speaking is talking to someone he doesn't know well.
Capitalize it if it becomes a nickname.
I laughed out loud when I read this thread. Took me back many years.
I grew up at a time and place when boy was a common word. Things, like---
"Boy, it's cold."
"Boy, I wish I had a dime for a Coke."
Like that. Very common.
Well, here's what happened. I was prolly an early teen. We were visiting my uncle. He was a very nice man. He had curly hair. Of course, everyone in the extended family called him "Curly."
Curly was puttering in his garage. I got bored with whatever was going on in the house and went out to the garage.
Curly was doing something mysterious in the hood of his car. I didn't give a rip about cars.
I no longer recall exactly what I said when I came into Curly's garage. I suppose it might have been something like, "Boy, I sure wish I could find something to do."
Curly straightened up from his car's engine.
Looked at me. There was a twinkle in his eye, although I didn't realize that until much later. "I've got fourteen inches of cock, my balls won't fit in a fruit jar, and you call me "boy?"
I was shattered. Have never used the word since.
Hope someone will get a smile.
Cur
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3/12/2013, 12:07 am
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qupie
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Snort. I can see that you inherited your sense of humour from your uncle. Not to mention the first syllable of your nickname.
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3/12/2013, 12:23 am
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Frank Baron
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I was tempted to post "Only 14"?!"
But Q would only snort again.
So I won't.
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3/12/2013, 1:05 am
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The Tinman
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quote: Smiling Curmudgeon wrote:
I grew up at a time and place when boy was a common word. Things, like---
"Boy, it's cold."
"Boy, I wish I had a dime for a Coke."
Cur
Thanks Cur. I still talk like that. Hope I'm not telling my age, though I don't remember ever paying only a dime for a Coke, lol.
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3/12/2013, 11:30 pm
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Then you're still a puppy, Tinman.
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3/13/2013, 1:15 pm
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KittyF
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Ol' Cur sounds like a bit of a pup himself.
"In the end, inflation killed the nickel Coke. The price of the ingredients rose. In the late 1940s, some stores sold Cokes for 6 cents. The last nickel Coke seems to have been in 1959."
Is Cur a pup or is he not?
*_*
--- Anyone who likes cats can't be all bad.
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