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 Post subject: "down to earth"
PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:10 am 
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where did this lame expression come from

my family uses it a lot

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Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.

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In five years, when you get laid and grow up, you should go back and read some of these posts and if you've turned into a decent person you'll realize how much of an asshole you sound like right now

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Word on the street was that it started with the ancient Thessalonians.

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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock

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I heard Whitney-2951 has something to do with this.

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i heard waxy is trashed

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stip wrote:
In five years, when you get laid and grow up, you should go back and read some of these posts and if you've turned into a decent person you'll realize how much of an asshole you sound like right now

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I think it comes from hippies.
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Cal Varnsen wrote:
i heard waxy is trashed


*5 beers

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bullet proof wrote:
Word on the street was that it started with the ancient Thessalonians.

*Collossians

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Bammer wrote:
bullet proof wrote:
Word on the street was that it started with the ancient Thessalonians.

*Collossians


hittites

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Right here. I am so pwned, whatever that means.

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originally, "down to earth" was used to convey a reality check, if you will. an early example of this usage comes from the 1920's: "I had for some little time been living . . . in another world. I now came down to earth with a bang." (Very Good, Jeeves!)

over time, the phrase took on the meaning of being grounded. early occurances of this can be seen in the 1930's, when actresses were refrerred to as being "down-to-earth" and "not concerned with the glamours of hollywood."

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and our love is a monster, plain and simple
though you weight it down with stones to try to drown it
it floats
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the opposite of 'down to earth' is having one's 'head in the clouds'.
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ledbetter10 wrote:
Bammer wrote:
bullet proof wrote:
Word on the street was that it started with the ancient Thessalonians.

*Collossians


hittites


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lutor3f wrote:
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock

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