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Just, I'd an asker's comment like this.

"Thank you so much! I wish i could choose all answers best but you went on and explained a tinsy bit more. Thank you!"

But, I'm not quite sure what "a tinsy" means.

Is this implying positive, negative, something like a joke or telling you are a humorous person?

Thank you in advance.

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When some people offend my wife.

If I needed to be extremely rude enough to

make them fear of me.

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"Good not to easy generalization. Differently is life."

(writing, not conv.)

Then, if OK, is this sophisticated or good enough as American English?

If not, correct it, please. Thank you in advance.

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This is a joke I found on the net.

And you will see at the bottommost "P.S. Stanford is great...I love it, though I miss you both terribly...and Socks, too!".

PLS tell me what does "Socks"mean.

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Dear Mom and Dad:

It has been four months since I left for college. I have been remiss in writing and am very

sorry for my thoughtlessness. I will bring you up to date now, but before you read on,

please sit down. Don't read any further unless you are sitting down ... OK?

Good. I am getting along pretty well now. The skull fracture and the concussion I got

from jumping out of the window of my dormitory when it caught fire, shortly after my

arrival, are pretty well healed now. I only spent two weeks in the hospital and now I can

see almost normally and only get three headaches a day.

Fortunately, the fire in the dormitory and my jump were witnessed by an attendant at a

nearby gas station, and he was able to call the Fire Department and the ambulance. He

also visited me at the hospital, and since I had nowhere to live because of the burnt-out

dorm, he was kind enough to invite me to share his apartment with him. It's really a

basement room, but it is kind of cute. He is a very fine boy and we have fallen deeply in

love and are planning to get married. We haven't set the exact date yet, but I'm sure it

will be before I start to show.

Yes, Mom and Dad, I am pregnant. I know how much you are looking forward to being

grandparents, and I know you will give the baby the same love and devotion and tender

care you gave me when I was a child.

The reason for the delay in our marriage is that my boyfriend has some minor infection

which prevents us from passing our premarital blood tests, and I carelessly caught it

from him. This will soon clear up, thanks to my daily penicillin injections. I know you will

welcome him into our family with open arms. He is kind, and although not well educated,

he is ambitious. Also, he is of a different race and religion than ours, but I know, after all

your years of teaching me tolerance, that you won't mind the fact that he is somewhat

darker than we are.

I am sure you will love him as I do. His family background is good, too; I am told that his

father is an important gunbearer in his native African village.

I guess that's it. Now that I have brought you up to date, I want you to know ... There

was no dormitory fire, I did not have a concussion or skull fracture, I was not in the

hospital, I am not pregnant, I am not engaged, I do not have syphilis and there is no man

of another race in my life. However, I am getting a "D" in History and an "F" in Science,

and I wanted you to see these marks in their proper perspective.

Your loving daughter,

Chelsea

P.S. Stanford is great...I love it, though I miss you both terribly...and Socks, too!

P.P.S Dad, please give my best to Monica & the others.

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The URBAN dic. says;

"The coast is clear" is said when it has been determined that it is now safe to proceed; that there are no obstacles or witnesses to what one is about to do.

And one of the example usages shown as;

"The coast is clear", he thought as he watched his lover's husband drive away from the house.

This is quite understandable for me.

However,the next BLOND JOKE, does not sense to me.

I don't know why "if the coast is clear."!

If anyone could clarify it would be greatly appreciated.

* The phone call...

A married couple were asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning.

The wife (a blonde), picked up the phone, listened a moment and said,

"How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!" and hung up.

Curious, the husband said, "Who was that?"

And his lovely wife replies, "I don't any idea who it was.

It was some stupid woman wanting to know "if the coast is clear."

* Another one;

Is The Coast Clear?

The doorbell rings in the middle of the night, and the wife gets up to see who it is. She comes back to bed and the husband says, "Who was that?"

The wife says, "Oh, it was some woman." The husband is freaked out. He says, "Well, uh, what did she want?"

The wife says, "She wanted to know if the coast was clear!" The husband is really nervous now. He says, "Well, what did you tell her?"

The wife says, "I told her the coast is a hundred miles from here; how in the heck do I know if it's clear or not?"

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Thanks