Passed Away Is Often A Inappropriate Expression

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  1. Beth Gallagher

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    Well, I would be honored. :D Can I have your Breville?
     
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    Croaked works for me.
     
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  3. Ed Wilson

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    I've heard "bought the farm". I wonder where that's from.
     
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  4. John Brunner

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    Sure. I bet you can work both "dehydrate" and "air fry" into the talk.

    Speaking of which, air fried loaded potato bites are on the menu for tonight, a.k.a. Adult Tater Tots! I just got my ricer, and I ain't dead yet!!!
     
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  5. Betty Jones

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    flew the coop
     
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  6. John Brunner

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    Looking at the grass from the wrong side.
    Pushing up daisies.
    Taking a dirt bath.
     
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  7. Shirley Martin

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    I love how y'all have taken a sad, somber thread and turned it into a laugh fest. :D
     
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    Yeh, we're dyin' here ;)
     
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    Oh, for dying out loud!!!!! :D
     
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  10. Dwight Ward

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    Funny, Beth.
     
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    How about if a frog dies? .Do we still say it croaked?
     
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  12. Al Amoling

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    Well I thought my wife bought the farm the other night
     
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  13. John Brunner

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    Sounds too much like I'm up someone's nose.

    But I guess it's better than "suppositoried."
     
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    A saying over here is - 'he's popped his clogs'
    So when I go, I will have - popped me clogs :p
     
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  15. John Brunner

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    "Kissed his last princess."
     
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