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Originally Posted by Kind Lampshade Maker
To deliver a baby could be misinterpreted by foreigners learning English as the act of removing the baby's liver
I heard a woman in a bar use the phrase "bekannt gehen" (going known), jokingly, of course, as a form of otherwise British word play to deride a German expression. Pretty creative, for a German (in that respect)
As singer of a band called The Travelling Willburys, Tom did a good job of exposing himself as a strange pussy
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His backup band should have been called the Recalcitrants.
What is appealing about the South, to me, a non-Southerner, is the conception of life as something other than a meritocratic efficiency competition is wider spread. You can hear this in Petty's voice in many songs.