I’ve been on tenterhooks...

[Sapphocrat]

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[phaseolus]

1. You can spell! You can spell! You can spell!!!!

sorry... kinda a rare talent these days.

[Sapphocrat]

3. LOL

It's one of the few things I'm actually proud of.

Unlike my grammar (see the ending preposition above)!

[northofdenali]

2. Per Mr. Webster:

"Main Entry: ten·ter·hook
Pronunciation: 'ten-t&r-"huk
Function: noun
: a sharp hooked nail used especially for fastening cloth on a tenter
- on tenterhooks : in a state of uneasiness, strain, or suspense"

What are you uneasy about? Not that there's anything to be EASY about in GWB's Amurka.

[Sapphocrat]

5. No more uneasy than usual...

The real question is: What's the next line? :)

[phaseolus]

8. "I'm on tenterhooks. No, literally. And it's really hard to type up here."

:shrug:

[Sapphocrat]

9. It's 'Pump It Up' by Elvis Costello...

But hang around, phaseolus -- I've got a whole bunch of lyrics running through my head tonight, with which I'll assail the Lounge after dinner.

Hope you like the 1970s! :D

[snoochie]

4. I've heard that expression - never knew what it meant before

http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-ont1.htm

[Paul Hood]

6. ending in dirty looks

[Sapphocrat]

7. Bravo, Paul Hood!

Care to try another one?

(My goal in life has become to stump lazarus, but everyone's welcome to play!)

Tighter, tighter, honey, honey
Sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy ...

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[lazarus]

10. Hey, Sapphocrat

C.B.S. and Warner Brothers
R.C.A. and all the others

That one I had to think about. I kept skipping over to "life is a rock but the radio rolled me."

Here's yours:

Eyes that look like heaven, lips like sherry wine...

[Sapphocrat]

11. Whew!

Too, too good! :D

Something tells me you know I hate country, but this one got major overkill (yeeee-ha!):

I get a funny feelin' up and down my spine
'Cause I know that my Elvira's mine
So I'm singin' Elvira! Elvira!
My hearrrrrrrrt's on fire
Elvira!
Giddyup a-oom papa oom papa mow mow
Giddyup a-oom papa oom papa mow mow
Hi-ho, Silver a-waaaay!

And here you go:

I never used to cry 'cause I was all alone...