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Friday, July 2, 2010

WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE?

For Friday Flash 55


MONDAY MORNING

“I was so traumatised by the ordeal of my kidnapping, I was unable to do my homework.”
“Do you expect me to believe that?”
“It’s true.”
“Do I look gullible?”
“Dunno what that word means.”
“Go and look it up then.”
“No point.”
“Why?”
“It’s the only word that doesn’t appear in the English Dictionary.”

22 comments:

  1. Ha!, sounds like a conversation my 3 teens would be having.

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  2. Thanks Diane; So what DOES it mean?

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  3. Let me clean up an old saying "You can't 'poop' an old turd". However, kids always think they can. Great 55. My 55 is HERE .

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  4. I looked it up...
    You Are Right!!
    Excellent 55 Stan,
    Thanks for playing today. Are you celebrating the Fourth?
    Have a Kick Ass Week-End...G

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  5. Thanks to:
    5thsister; Check if you don't believe...
    Monkey Man; It's part of the fun of growing up.
    G-Man; I thought you knew it all.
    I celebrated the first - will do so second and third. The Fourth...? I don't need any excuse.

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  6. So I'm either gullible or you have a great grasp of the English language and what's missing

    thanks for the visit Stan!!!

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  7. Okay, now I have to go look it up. Conversation sounds familiar to me. Hmmm. I work in a school! D

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  8. Thanks to:
    Moondustwriter; Imagine checking and finding out it really isn't there...?
    Donetta; You must have heard them all.

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  9. I remember such conversations well :-)

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  10. Teachers must live to hear the excuses kids come up with for not doing their homework. And, gullible is in my dictionary. Was I gullible in suspecting it wasn't?

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  11. Okay I had to look it up as well :) Loved this. Very well done my friend. Have a great Friday :)

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  12. haha. dont know if i would rather be the fool for believing or the fool who goes and checks...nice 55.

    have a great weekened!

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  13. Thanks to:
    Anthony; Don't we all?
    Peter; It's an old one but still works, apparently.
    Thom; I never have done, so I still don't know for sure.
    Brian; I'm sure a kid who never does his homework wouldn't be smart enough to think of this one.

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  14. Ha! I'm sure that teachers here it ALL! :)

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  15. And of course i meant "HEAR". Yikes, it's early and I need coffee. :)

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  16. Talking about old jokes... Here's a 1600BC joke:
    "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh?

    Sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile - and urge the pharaoh to go fishing."

    They don't tell them like that any more! my 55 here

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  17. Thanks to:
    Me; Here Here... or is it Hear Rear...?
    John; Only on the Nile...

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  18. Touché - reminds me of my son - never had kidnapping as an excuse but all kind of imaginative things that come close to it.... ;=)

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  19. Thanks Claudia; Wait till you hear my excuse for next week!

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  20. You have me grabbing my dictionary.

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  21. Thanks Alice; I don't have one - none of the words I use are in there.

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