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- noun Alternative spelling of
rib cage .
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Examples
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First buck 20 yards hit in ribcage, loud crack when hit.
Rage broadheads 2009
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Three days later better buck, 18 yards, hit in ribcage, again little penetration. no blood, could not find.
Rage broadheads 2009
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Three days later better buck, 18 yards, hit in ribcage, again little penetration. no blood, could not find.
Rage broadheads 2009
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First buck 20 yards hit in ribcage, loud crack when hit.
Rage broadheads 2009
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But, the fact ... which Tom points out in his blog [a man's] ribcage is about as wide as his pelvic bone.
Here's Brienne grrm 2010
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Sure do, though everyone’s ribcage is somewhat unique ….
KILL ME NOW 2008
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This means they will have to approach the animal from the front to avoid the ribcage, which is tricky.
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The boy's mother told police that when she lifted him "he felt crunchy," referring to his ribcage.
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The boy's mother told police that when she lifted him "he felt crunchy," referring to his ribcage.
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That third cake--the 'ribcage' cake, looks way too phallic for me.
Chappy Chanukah 2009
whichbe commented on the word ribcage
Keeps your organs from escaping.
December 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ribcage
Do you find that occurring often, whichbe?
December 29, 2008
sionnach commented on the word ribcage
There goes reesetee, mouthpiece for the body fluids, again!
is reesetee just a walking bag of body fluids? Or something much much more than that?
December 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ribcage
Wait. Wait. I got whiplash watching this conversation go by. Where's the mention of body fluids? I didn't see it--just organs!
December 29, 2008
sionnach commented on the word ribcage
c_b: If your organs are mere desiccated husks, might I gently suggest you make a medical appointment, ASAP? You may need to see several specialists, but I'd start with an endocrinologist.
December 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ribcage
But... but... organs is not a synonym for body fluids! You have failed to make clear to my desiccated husk of a brain how reesetee is the one who brought up (so to speak) body fluids on this page.
*tosses gauntlet*
;)
December 30, 2008
whichbe commented on the word ribcage
I was talking about my kist o' whistles, folks!
December 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ribcage
Yes, but then it (evidently) morphed into body fluids. Aren't you happy?
December 30, 2008
whichbe commented on the word ribcage
It's important to protect our precious bodily fluids.
December 30, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ribcage
Good grief. Walk away from a wisecrack for one second....
I may be just a walking bag of bodily fluids, but that doesn't mean I'm a mouthpiece for them, s! Which, by the way, sounds even more disgusting now that I've typed it than it did when I read it the first time. ;-)
C_b, here's a box of cupcakes for your ardent defense of my honor. *handing the bear un-iced treats*
December 30, 2008
sionnach commented on the word ribcage
"And how do you know I'm a walking bag of bodily fluids? Perhaps I only speak for them. Someone must, after all."
reesetee, in previously referenced remarks ("That is not a Christmas word, 2007" list).
Can *you* spell "hoist with one's own petard?"
Snicker.
December 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ribcage
Aha!! The petard maneuver! There was a huge debate over whether it's "hoist by" or "hoist with," or something, on some page or other.
I can't remember. My brain still feels like a desiccated husk. Maybe I should see an endocrinologist.
December 30, 2008
plethora commented on the word ribcage
It was on petard.
December 30, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ribcage
Please note the word perhaps, sionnach. I never confirmed nor denied that I was a) a walking bag of bodily fluids, or b) speaking for them.
*untangles self from petard*
Snicker.
January 1, 2009
sionnach commented on the word ribcage
Sophistry of the most rudimentary kind, there reesetee.
Nobody is going to fall for your erroneous logic.
What you are on record as having said was of form:
"And how do you know X and Y are true?. Perhaps only Y is true."
Under either option, Y is true.
(where X is : "rt is a wbobf" and Y is "rt speaks for the wbobf's").
So, whether or not you are one, you are their self-professed spokesmodel.
January 1, 2009
reesetee commented on the word ribcage
So I win the bet? The one where I drag poor sionnach into a sophistical, madeupical argument?
My work here is done. :-D
*re-tangles self in petard*
January 1, 2009
sionnach commented on the word ribcage
Don't make me send over an eagle to gnaw at your liver all the livelong night, sir.
January 1, 2009
whichbe commented on the word ribcage
What a bounteous tracery of ribbing up in the ribcage.
January 1, 2009
reesetee commented on the word ribcage
An eagle? Why, that would be splendid!
January 5, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word ribcage
Ohhh... your threat appears to have backfired, sionnach. Don't forget reesetee has a thing for birds.
*sniggering*
January 6, 2009
reesetee commented on the word ribcage
Well, to be fair, I've yet to discuss this with my liver.
January 6, 2009