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Well I congratulate you Hardi on being such an inspired person and making up new words to refer to me and Lennye, instead of using educated words since it looks like education is not one of your virtues.

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Dixie wrote:Sorry I was going to answer something funny but then I noticed this word... Elfishness... :lol:



More likely he meant 'Selfishness'.

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I know what he meant. I was just joking with his mistake and the word elf. :D
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Dixie wrote:Well I congratulate you Hardi on being such an inspired person and making up new words to refer to me and Lennye, instead of using educated words since it looks like education is not one of your virtues.

http://www.the-reel-mccoy.com/movies/20 ... poster.jpg
I'm educated to know what elf is. But you're really uneducated to post url correctly.. educated peoples at lest check if their posted url's working :twisted:

By the way I did not make up new word. it was in dictionary, beside of frolicky jocund puckishly wanton.... so I supose they are synonyms, but since I were to lazy to search exact definition of them all, I chosed the one I was able to understand.. what it could mean. :lol:
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Dixie wrote:Well I congratulate you Hardi on being such an inspired person and making up new words to refer to me and Lennye, instead of using educated words since it looks like education is not one of your virtues.

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My URL was posted correctly. Check your computer.

Come on Hardi get it on!!! :lol: :lol:
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Post by Hardi »

Your url is not posted correctly.

this is what you posted elf

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[url=http://www.the-reel-mccoy.com/movies/2003/images/Elf_poster.jpg[/url]elf[/url]
and this is how it suposed to be. elf

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[url=http://www.the-reel-mccoy.com/movies/2003/images/Elf_poster.jpg]elf[/url]
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To three or four who are arguing or joking here:

I just came back from my this year's vacation and immediately saw all you said about this topic.

I wonder if this forum is supposed to be a chat room. What i mean is i like the way you reply to one another. It's fun!
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Means "mainkan"

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Dear all

Get it on means "mainkan" in Indonesian.

Mainkan” is a slang too in Indonesian.

Usually "mainkan/get it on" is preceded by "Ayo/Let's".

It could be either an invitation or an order

To make it clear, take a look at the meanings below.

1. (Let's) get it on = (Let's) have sex ---> an invitation.
For example: a husband to wife.

2. (Let's) get it on = (Let’s) kick ass ---> an order.
For example: a volley ball coach to the players to cheer the players up. It's also used by a referee in a fight.

Perhaps, some of you once watched The UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), a fight where the rules are no rules (Actually there are 2 rules in this fight namely don't scratch eyes and don't hit penis. So, the fighters can hit any parts of the body except eyes and penis). They can even pull the hair of their rival, and so on.

When the first time it was introduced, there was no time limit in the fight. The fight would end after one of the fighters give up/tap out or the referee stops the fight due to the severe damaged condition to one of the fighters.

I want to explain more actually, but psychologically speaking you might not be interested. But what I want to say is: one of the referees always says "Let's get it on" to ask the fighters to fight soon.

This statement (let's get it on) used to be used by children in my neighborhood when they were playing together. They used to say this expression even though they didn't know the meaning. They just copied from the referee. This program has been stopped here as “Smackdown” or “WWF”. The later has given very bad influence to our children. There were about 6 kids died after they copied the scene in WWF. :cry: :cry: :cry:

Universally speaking, the referee is one of the legendary referees in the UFC. I also admire him. While he was leading the fight, most of us would say “(Let’s) get it on” to express how excited we were or to support one of the fighters.

But “(let’s) get in on” is rarely used in formal English.

Regarding to the perfume ad, I think it means (let’s) use it then you’ll feel excited.
(Let’s get it on) here is an invitation to use the perfume. It’s not an order.

Marketingly speaking, I think this expression is not suitable for the products of perfume.

Supernaturally speaking, this ad is suitable for condoms, boxing gloves, cheerleader accessories, underwear, and Viagra pills.
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Ha, Yes, you got it! It's really sex-related!
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never knew! :shock:
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Post by Igorek »

I found some Examples of "get it up":
1)He was getting it on (admiring) in front of the painting of some unknown artist.
2)Time to go back to work. Let's get it on(start).
3)He wanted to get it on (in this case means to dance) but my feet hurt.
4)I can really get it on (be in ecstasies) with that slow jazz.
5)I gon't want to get it on (have sex) with you.
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