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BobTheSubgenius

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23. I've often wondered about that expression.
Sun Apr 24, 2022, 10:19 PM
Apr 2022

"The world is your oyster." Has anyone ever eaten an oyster? Even SEEN one? They're disgusting, and why you would want the world to be one is beyond me.

Why not "The world is your pizza?" Or ice cream? Beer? Bacon! Now there's a thought.

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Top of the List..... FarPoint Apr 2022 #1
Exactly my thought Novara Apr 2022 #36
She do that and get an extra try/meal FarPoint Apr 2022 #37
Hopefully she'll be assigned dweller Apr 2022 #2
Hahahahahahaha Schmice3 Apr 2022 #26
What an idiot dreamer she is! We must hold the House. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2022 #3
No dream. If the Democrats don't hold the House, the world in her oyster. bottomofthehill Apr 2022 #5
I've often wondered about that expression. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2022 #23
Like many odd things we have Shakespeare to thank for this oddity bottomofthehill Apr 2022 #25
Probably in reference to finding pearls? PatSeg Apr 2022 #38
It will be difficult for her; she can't remember anything. Magoo48 Apr 2022 #45
I would like a Ferrari, BidenRocks Apr 2022 #4
No, not all of Congress SuperCoder Apr 2022 #17
lol nt orleans Apr 2022 #30
She will not recall this tomorrow MacKasey Apr 2022 #6
HAHAHAAHAHAHAAHHA! oldsoftie Apr 2022 #11
This could easily come to fruition unless DOJ gets its act together. 1/6 commission has enough. Evolve Dammit Apr 2022 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author MacKasey Apr 2022 #8
The committees on which I would like her to serve: making license plates. niyad Apr 2022 #9
Hopefully meth gator Perjury Traitor Greene area51 Apr 2022 #10
... and Matt Gaetz wants to be on the Prom Committee William Seger Apr 2022 #12
Hopefully McCarthy WONT be Speaker oldsoftie Apr 2022 #13
And hopefully Greene won't PatSeg Apr 2022 #39
Makes me angry DownriverDem Apr 2022 #14
The way things have been going she will probably end up being Speaker. Chainfire Apr 2022 #15
And I want a superyacht meow2u3 Apr 2022 #16
She, like every Rethug, belongs in jail. clementine613 Apr 2022 #18
She can make license plates IronLionZion Apr 2022 #19
She has yet to demonstrate she has the talent to do anything besides run her mouth Norbert Apr 2022 #29
I was thinking the prison laundry would be her oyster jmowreader Apr 2022 #40
Making license plates, that's just the gig for her. And she can hum this when she's stampin'them out argyl Apr 2022 #43
Only three committees? And all too bully Democrats whose only request Warpy Apr 2022 #20
Must be huge list of bills that MTG, Boebert, and Cawthorn have initiated. keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #21
Does she even know what a "Neocon" is? JohnnyRingo Apr 2022 #22
I want her to serve another term........ lastlib Apr 2022 #27
The only bright spot is Biden will win in 2024 once swing voters see the Repug Congress. Jon King Apr 2022 #24
Obama 2012, Clinton 1996 DemocraticPatriot Apr 2022 #33
If this doesn't motivate Dems to vote Mz Pip Apr 2022 #28
Note the not-so-covert anti-Semitism: (((globalist neocons)))... keep_left Apr 2022 #31
Her ambitions presume that she is re-elected, DemocraticPatriot Apr 2022 #32
Do prisons have those committees? SouthernDem4ever Apr 2022 #34
Thanks to the judge in her discovery deposition protecting her rights to lie Emile Apr 2022 #35
Kick Omaha Steve Apr 2022 #41
This sickens me because the maps are against us. I hope Joe can be as ruthless as Trump with his EO Samrob Apr 2022 #42
Wants to be on the Judiciary committee, yet Best_man23 Apr 2022 #44
Not Chair of the Ethics Committee? 24601 Apr 2022 #46
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