Re: 50 hours?

dsl@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dennis Lewis) wrote in news:4a946f76.2731120
@news.east.earthlink.net:

On 24 Aug 2009 17:48:27 GMT, David W. Fenton wrote:

... one of the roommates and I got along like a house
on fire ...

Is that good?

... and we ended up getting an apartment in Weehawken ...

I guess so. Odd, since fire + house = destruction, that "saying"
should be the equivalent of "We got along like oil and water."

It's one of my long mi

Brings to mind "The Golden Girls" episode in which Rose mentions
"We
lived in a burning house once. [Pause] It started out as a three
bedroom, two bath. [Pause] Then it was a two bedroom, one bath..."

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Hold tight --
Wait 'til the party's over
Hold tight --
We're in for nasty weather
There ... has ... got ... to ... be ... a ... way
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE

<http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/talking+heads/burning+down+the+house_
20135067.html>




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