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Old Sat Mar 29, 2008, 03:16pm
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This just in... commentators use the phrase "time and distance"
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This just in... commentators use the phrase "time and distance"
What would really be news is if they used it correctly, and grasped the concepts!
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This just in. Commentators use the phrase "time and distance"
Are you sure that the commentators were not simply discussing their flights to their next NCAA site assignment?

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This just in... commentators use the phrase "time and distance"

No wonder we got five (5) inches of snow in Toledo this past Thursday night.

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This just in... commentators use the phrase "time and distance"
Bosnian
When grapes rippen on the willow

Catalan
When cows fly


Chinese
Unless the sun would rise from the West

Croatian
When grapes rippen the on willow
On St. Nobody's day

Dutch
When Easter and Whitsun fall on the same day

English
When pigs fly / and pigs might fly.

When hell freezes over.

On a cold day in hell
Not in a month of Sundays.

Esperanto
On the week with three thursdays

Finnish
When hell freezes over
When cows fly

French
When chicken have teeth

the week with 4 Thursdays
On Saint Glinglin's day (doesn't exist)

German
When Easter and Whistun fall on the same day
On Saint Never's day / on Saint Never
When Hell freezes over
When it snows in summer

Hindi
When the sun will rise in the west

Hungarian
When it's snowing red snowflakes
When gipsy children are streaming from the sky
When Hell freezes over

Italian
When donkeys will fly
When Easter falls in May
The year of never and the month of then
In the week with two thursdays

Latin
on the Greek Kalends - unlike the Roman calendar, Kalends did not feature in the Greek calendar, so this phrase is roughly equivalent to "at British Thanksgiving" (Thanksgiving is not celebrated in the UK).

Latvian
When the owl's tail blossoms

Luxembourgish
When Whistun and New Year's Day fall on the same day

Macedonian
When grapes will grow on willows

Malayalam
The crow will fly upside down

Norwegian
When pigs fly
When it's snowing in hell

Polish
on Saint Never's Day
When the cactus will grow on my hand

Portuguese
When the cow coughs
On Saint Never's day

Russian
When the crayfish on the hill whistles

Serbian
When grapes grow on willows

Slovenian
On Saint Never's Day

Spanish
When frogs grow hair

Swedish
When pigs fly
When hell freezes over

Tagalog
When the crow turns white

When the heron turns black

Thai
when the 7-11 is closed

next lifetime

Turkish
When fish climb trees/poplar trees

Ukrainian
when the crayfish on the hill whistles
when louse will sneeze

Welsh
When pigs fly
When hell freezes over

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BillyMac, you forgot:

When Billy Packer gets it right
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BillyMac, you forgot: When Billy Packer gets it right
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