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22 Jun 2018, 4:41 am

Translation: "You gotta have a thick face when it comes to business sometimes."

This actually made me touch my face. :lol:

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22 Jun 2018, 5:26 am

yellowtamarin wrote:

I imagine them all literally.

Me too

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22 Jun 2018, 8:54 am

I imagined "birthday suit" as a special outfit, when it really means you're completely naked.

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22 Jun 2018, 11:14 am

"Why the long face?"

But my face is round, not long. Maybe they're thinking of horses? :lol:

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22 Jun 2018, 2:47 pm

"... it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." -- Matthew 19:24 (NIV)

I imagines a camel squeezing through the eye of a needle like some animated cartoon character.

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22 Jun 2018, 3:20 pm

auntblabby wrote:

when I was about 5 or so, I remember hearing on a radio, a news blurb about hippie university students at the Berkeley campus walking around smoking pot, and in my little kid mind I was picturing a bunch of long-haired kids with pot handles with flames on the ends of 'em sticking out of their mouths.

Hear about the moron who tried to join the Mob, and become a hit man?

They told him to blow up a guy's car.

He told them he tried, but he burned his lips on the exhaust pipe!

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22 Jun 2018, 3:23 pm

SaveFerris wrote:

yellowtamarin wrote:

I imagine them all literally.

Me too

I, and most folks do. That's what you're supposed to do to get the meaning.

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22 Jun 2018, 3:28 pm

Fnord wrote:

Most folks imagine it that way. But a history professor I had said that "the Eye of the Needle" was the name of a mountain pass near Jerusalem that was notorious for having bandits. And that's where the phrase came from, and not "the way you picture it: a bunch of guys vainly trying to push a camel through the eye of a sewing needle".

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22 Jun 2018, 3:45 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

SaveFerris wrote:

yellowtamarin wrote:

I imagine them all literally.

Me too

I, and most folks do. That's what you're supposed to do to get the meaning.

That's alright then

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22 Jun 2018, 4:42 pm

the eye of a needle was an old low gate in old Jerusalem, so for a camel to go through it, it would have to be unladen, hence the analogy of the rich man not being able to take it all with him.

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22 Jun 2018, 4:43 pm

auntblabby wrote:

the eye of a needle was an old low gate in old Jerusalem, so for a camel to go through it, it would have to be unladen, hence the analogy of the rich man not being able to take it all with him.

Interesting, thanks for sharing that.

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22 Jun 2018, 5:33 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

SaveFerris wrote:

yellowtamarin wrote:

I imagine them all literally.

Me too

I, and most folks do. That's what you're supposed to do to get the meaning.

Every time though? Most people only hear the intended meaning once they know what it is, which is why conversations are so thick with metaphors and such, as the literal meaning is ignored most of the time.

I don't think most people would talk the way they do if they were as literal- (and visual-) minded as me!

I have a friend who talks in cliches, metaphors, etc. a LOT. But he also gets them wrong a fair bit. Often I get confused so I ask him what he means, and he finds he doesn't actually know, when he tries to explain the words he used.

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22 Jun 2018, 7:22 pm

Well, from now on every time I get up early I will go around town saying I shat my bed. Give me a week, I'll be sent to Arkham Asylum. Love seeing old friends again.

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22 Jun 2018, 7:23 pm

I dread the day when I have to worry about that. :bigsmurf:

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22 Jun 2018, 7:24 pm

auntblabby wrote:

I dread the day when I have to worry about that. :bigsmurf:

Ah, don't worry, nobody knows you're really Mr. Freeze. Damn it!

How do you delete this? Crap! :mrgreen:

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22 Jun 2018, 7:26 pm

LoneLoyalWolf wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

I dread the day when I have to worry about that. :bigsmurf:

Ah, don't worry, nobody knows your really Mr. Freeze. Damn it!

How do you delete this? Crap! :mrgreen:

take pride in your flights of fancy :flower:

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