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    In or On?

    Why do we say I'm on the train (bus/plane/boat) when we say I'm in the car?
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    We just do, so get over it!















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    On is short for on board?.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BohsPartisan View Post
    Why do we say I'm on the train (bus/plane/boat) when we say I'm in the car?
    No idea but im gonna go with........its beacuase the car is generally ours or a friends.

    The bus train plane are bigger and owned by other people

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    Quote Originally Posted by BohsPartisan View Post
    Why do we say I'm on the train (bus/plane/boat) when we say I'm in the car?
    Do some work , you must be really bored

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    Nothing to do with who owns the vehicle, you wouldn't say you were on a London taxi, would you?

    It's a shortening of on board, I reckon too.

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    Why do you say Boez when we say Bohs
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    Because when you're rich you can say what you want and no one argues.
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    And here I was thinking this was going to be a post about bellybuttons....

    Good question though, never really thought about it, hmmmmm it's a good one for the pub, just to get people stumpped.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dricky View Post
    And here I was thinking this was going to be a post about bellybuttons....
    I've an outie!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peadar View Post
    I've an outie!
    Mine is in.
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    I've got an innie.

    People who are left handed, people who have a uni-brow (sp??), and people with outties are weird. If you fall under all three you are f.ucked

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    Peadar has all three!
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    Can anybody do the Vulcan greeting \\\// with both hands?.

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    Just with the left hand, can't do it with the right anymore since my baby finger is broke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by the 12 th man View Post
    Can anybody do the Vulcan greeting \\\// with both hands?.
    Yes, but then I can't touch the tip of my nose with my tongue nor roll my tongue for that matter. Nor can I wiggle my ears. Mrs PP and all her family can do all of these - and she calls me a freak?

    PP
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raheny Red View Post
    I've got an innie.

    People who are left handed, people who have a uni-brow (sp??), and people with outties are weird. If you fall under all three you are f.ucked
    An outie is just a hernia at birth.
    Could happen to anyone!
    The others are surely genetic?

    They say that left handed people live longer so I'd say that it's the rest of us who're fukked!
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    Quote Originally Posted by PlasticPaddy
    Yes, but then I can't touch the tip of my nose with my tongue nor roll my tongue for that matter. Nor can I wiggle my ears. Mrs PP and all her family can do all of these - and she calls me a freak?
    Hmmmm... she sounds interesting. What else can she do?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy View Post
    Yes, but then I can't touch the tip of my nose with my tongue nor roll my tongue for that matter. Nor can I wiggle my ears. Mrs PP and all her family can do all of these - and she calls me a freak?

    PP

    Never mind PP, Vulcan greeting much more important-"Live long & prosper"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peadar View Post
    An outie is just a hernia at birth.
    Could happen to anyone!
    The others are surely genetic?

    They say that left handed people live longer so I'd say that it's the rest of us who're fukked!
    Ahhh, but you see, the outtie folk look strange, the lefties just look wrong when they play golf or are writing, and as for the uni-brow people they just look evil.

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