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B3tans! Can you hum with your tongue? (Your Ginger Fuhrer can and he once demonstrated this to a producer on Blockbusters on the hope of getting on TV) Maybe you can bend your thumb in a really horrid way that makes it look broken. (Your Ginger Fuhrer's other special talent) What can you do? Extra points if you fancy demonstrating this with the odd pic or youtube vid.
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( , Thu 18 Nov 2010, 14:28)
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I apparently have a very high metabolism. I can eat several candy bars in one sitting and feel like I've just had a nice rest and get energetic. I will drink coffee and eat candy and be off like I've just snorted a load of cocaine.
Sometimes I'll suddenly get a craving for something, like maybe Pixie Sticks, and have to go to the gas station to buy one of those brontosaurus-erection sized ones and kill it in about twenty minutes. I get jacked up on sugar and can suddenly work like a fiend, then crash hard at night. My weight stays about the same no matter what.
It drives my wife insane.
( , Sun 21 Nov 2010, 20:07, 14 replies)
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Coffee makes me drowsy, the stronger it is the more drowsy it makes me.
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it's one of those long thin plastic tubes filled with sherbert of different colours usually red/yellow/blue that children love
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Sherbert dib-dabs and wham bars all the way for me!
( , Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:08, closed)
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Only over here sherbet is a frozen dessert made with fruit juice. Pixie Stix are filled with something akin to Kool Aid mix- that is, granulated sugar with an intense artificial flavor mixed in. Most of the time they're absolutely disgusting, but other times they're just what my inner seven-year-old craves.
That and those caramels with the weird white sugary stuff in the center. I know they're vile, but I can't stop the occasional urge for them.
As for them being after your time... well, I grew up in the early 70s. Are you that much older than I am?
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I remember sherbert dib-dabs and Wham bars and I grew up in the 80s.
( , Mon 22 Nov 2010, 6:25, closed)
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..ended up buying, and eating, loads of stuff.
www.aquarterof.co.uk/wham-xtrm-blackcurrant-sherbet-p-151367.html
www.aquarterof.co.uk/double-original-p-412.html
and one of my favourites, the kiddies cigarettes (which can't be called cigarette's anymore)
www.aquarterof.co.uk/candy-sticks-p-385.html
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Sherbet is fizzy dust and Sorbet is frozen fruit juice... maybe you have them confused.
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Sherbet:
from Turkish şerbet, Persian šerbet, from Arabic šarba ‘drink,’ from šariba ‘to drink.’
Sorbet is taking two extra steps:
French (sorbet) from Italian sorbetto.
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but they have entirely different meanings today.
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is cleft, two different etymologies for two words with near opposite meanings but the same spelling/pronunciation.
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are you not thinking of 'cleave', rather than 'cleft'? Cleft is, I think, the past participle only for the 'splitting' one - the 'adhering' one is 'cleaved'. Other autoantonyms include the rather mundane 'fast'...
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Give me a double-espresso, and I'm off like a rocket..
I've been a set weight since my early teens, and I'm 34 now.
No weight change, regardless of how much, how little, or what I eat, drink, or smoke..
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