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    Lead and led

    Quote Originally Posted by robd View Post
    Well, why don't you just get on with it and tell the forum about the incident that's lead to this thread?
    Right, that.s it.

    The next person to mis-spell "led" is going to feel the back of my rep.

    You've been warned.

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    Re: What are your thoughts on HIJACKING?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Right, that.s it.

    The next person to mis-spell "led" is going to feel the back of my rep.

    You've been warned.
    Well that went down like a led balloon.

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    Re: What are your thoughts on HIJACKING?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Right, that.s it.

    The next person to mis-spell "led" is going to feel the back of my rep.

    You've been warned.
    Hmm David, whilst I bow to your authoritative precision in matters of the English language, maybe you can flex your imagination in this matter.

    I wonder if the original poster serendipitously came up with a new phrase "lead to the thread".....meaning something which is adding disproportionate weight to the thread. Think of it as the second cousin twice removed of "adding grist to the mill".


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    Re: What are your thoughts on HIJACKING?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    Right, that.s it.

    The next person to mis-spell "led" is going to feel the back of my rep.

    You've been warned.
    What about people who use full stops instead of apostrophies?

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    Re: What are your thoughts on HIJACKING?

    You can take a horse to water,
    But a pencil must be lead.


    (well graphite these days.. but that doesn't work so well)

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    Re: What are your thoughts on HIJACKING?

    Quote Originally Posted by Beowulf1970 View Post
    You can take a horse to water,
    But a pencil must be lead.


    (well graphite these days.. but that doesn't work so well)
    Um...shouldn't that be you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead?

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    Re: What are your thoughts on HIJACKING?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Um...shouldn't that be you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead?
    The one my great-grandmother always used to tell me** was:

    'You can take a horse to water, but you have a snowball's chance in hell of successfully enrolling him in the national equine synchronised swimming team.'

    **OK - so I never actually met her, but I feel sure if I had, she'd have told me something like that.

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    Re: Lead and led

    I used to have a led watch back in the 1970's.

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    Re: What are your thoughts on HIJACKING?

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    The one my great-grandmother always used to tell me** was:

    'You can take a horse to water, but you have a snowball's chance in hell of successfully enrolling him in the national equine synchronised swimming team.'

    **OK - so I never actually met her, but I feel sure if I had, she'd have told me something like that.
    Do synchronised-swimming horses do that one where they are upside down waggling their feet above the surface?

    Oo, oo - question: how do horses make those nose-pincer things stay on?

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    Re: What are your thoughts on HIJACKING?

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post

    Oo, oo - question: how do horses make those nose-pincer things stay on?
    The same way they keep the arm bands on stupid. .

    It's theraputic apparently.

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