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| (...) My mistake, my error, my bad judgment, mea culpa, oops, excuse me. -->Bruce<-- (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I'm not sure if it's at all related, but the one that makes my neck hairs bristle every time I hear it is, "my bad". I don't know what it's short for, if anything, or what exactly it means, but it bothers me for some reason. :) Allan B. (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I live in Northern California and those words mean exactly the same thing they mean to you. BTW I spent most of my teenage years in Western Washington and never owned an umbrella until I went off to college-- in Baltimore! Maggie C. (24 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I guess I just inherently know what is meant by each of those words including rain and rainshower activity when used by a Western Washington forcaster after having lived here my whole life. Rain means that the area in question is going to have (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Perhaps it originates from irc chats where typing "/me like!" would display "<name> like!"? That would be my guess. Either that or they just don't want to grow up, and use so-called "baby-talk." ;) Jeff "Jeff slaps Dave! around a bit with a (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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