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rob, Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:01)
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Those little things you do or sayFor example, when I'm at work (I'm a chef), I might have two steaks, and I must tell the waiter or waitress which is which (relating to how they are cooked). So I might say "rare to the left of you, well-done to the right" in order to fit the song lyric "clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right" from "Stuck in the middle with you".
If I'm driving on the motorway and change lanes, and a driver leaves the lane I have just entered and moves into the lane I have just left, I say "shall we dance?"
I'm not really talking about anything related to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or similar (although that could bring some interesting answers), just the little things you do for no real reason in your day-to-day life.
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Amos E Wolfe makes vinyl signs and things like that, Thu 3 Jan 2008, 0:44,
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"rare to the left of you, well-done to the right"But you've been missing out on the best bit. When you have three steaks you can say;
"rare to the left of you, well-done to the right. And of course, steak in the middle with jus"
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 7:56,
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Like it!!I'm sure I've got dozens, but one I do when I'm listening to the news on Radio 4 - virtually every day. Towards the end, the newsreader then comes to the financial news and says: "In the City..." at which point I belt out "...there's a thousand things I want to say to you!" out loud, if I'm alone, or in my head if my wife's about.
Ah me...
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