Time to cut the mustard!

[4est_4est_Gump]

[gas]

Now that ISIS is using mustard gas on the Kurds, just like it used it in Syria, some of us here are owed an apology for daring to say that the Obama Administration was wrong to get involved in Syria and wrong to accuse the Assad government of using WMDs and then engaging in the Kabuki comedy which followed.

Red line? WHat line? Whose line? I didn't draw no line!

 

[Saint Peter]

Isolation? More carriers?

Each "answer" is worse than the one it is replacing.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The United States, under Liberal direction has adopted the

"iMaginot there's no war,
"No need to kill or die for,"

Sitzkreig strategy of warfare!

We will find a way to enter into talks to give away parts of Iraq, Syria and Turkey in exactly the same way we gave away South Vietnam and North Korea.

All valuable allies.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The correct expression is CUT THE MUSTER.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The correct expression is CUT THE MUSTER.

No it is not.

I looked it up before using it.

 

[Saint Peter]

Look! Dumbasses!!

 

[miles]

You're expecting liberals to admit they were wrong?


BWAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA!!!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No it is not.

I looked it up before using it.

Youre wanting UP TO MUSTARD. Cut the muster is older. Up to mustard refers to somethings purity rather than its basic utility.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Isis =/= Assad

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You're expecting liberals to admit they were wrong?


BWAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA!!!

I know..., it's a hoot!

Youre wanting UP TO MUSTARD. Cut the muster is older. Up to mustard refers to somethings purity rather than its basic utility.

Look it up.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Isis =/= Assad

Translation?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*



I didn't think so...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I know..., it's a hoot!



Look it up.

Fuckhead, I looked it up but I don't buy any old shit asshats post on websites. You do.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It never occurred to your fossilized old marble that there are actually two separate sayings...

:shrug:

One of them doesn't work well as a title for this subject and the other does.

:dumbass:

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It never occurred to your fossilized old marble that there are actually two separate sayings...

:shrug:

One of them doesn't work well as a title for this subject and the other does.

:dumbass:

Distinct meanings is my point. You use one for the other. You remind me of LADYVER who uses Harridan for Haridan.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

No, I used it properly.

Meaning

To succeed; to come up to expectations.

Origin

Why cutting mustard was chosen as an example of high quality is unclear. As always in such circumstances, there are no shortage of guesses. Some of these allude to the literal difficulty of cutting mustard in its various forms; for example:

- Mustard seed, which is hard to cut with a knife on account of its being small and shiny.
- Mustard plants, which are tough and stringy and grow densely.
- Culinary mustard, which is cut (diluted) and made more palatable by the addition of vinegar.
- Dried mustard paste, which was reputedly used to coat meat and then dried to form a crust.

There is no evidence to support these derivations and they give the impression of having been retro-fitted in an attempt at plausibility.

Another supposed explanation is that the phrase is simply a mistaken version of the military expression 'cut the muster'. This appears believable at first sight. A little research shows it not to be so. Muster is the calling together of soldiers, sailors, prisoners, to parade for inspection or exercise. To cut muster would be a breach of discipline; hardly a phrase that would have been adopted with the meaning of success or excellence. This line of thought appears to have been influenced by confusion with the term 'pass muster', which would have the correct meaning, but which could hardly be argued to be the origin of 'cut the mustard'. The OED, which is the most complete record of the English language, along with all of the other reference works I've checked, don't record 'cut the muster' at all. The fact that documented examples of 'cut the mustard' are known from many years before any for 'cut the muster' would appear to rule out the latter as the origin.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cut-the-mustard.html

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No, I used it properly.



http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/cut-the-mustard.html

Your source is fulla shit because CUT means conform to standards. As I said, you grab any shit without scrutiny.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Fossil





"Where does the phrase cut the mustard come from?

As with many slang and idiomatic phrases, the origin can be a bit unclear. The first recorded use of the phrase cut the mustard was by O. Henry in 1907, in a story called The Heart of the West: "I looked around and found a proposition that exactly cut the mustard". The modern sense of the idiom is 'to succeed; to have the ability to do something; to come up to expectations', but the phrase is most often used in the negative form, as "can't cut the mustard," meaning 'not able to handle the job'. The cut probably refers to harvesting the plant, so if one cannot cut the mustard, one cannot supply what is best. A phrase preceding cut the mustard is to be the mustard (c. 1903) meaning 'to be special' or 'to be exactly what is needed' with mustard being a slang term for importance. There is also another phrase keen as mustard meaning 'very enthusiastic'."

Dictionary.com

Eventually, you will have to stop denying instead of defining on your own terms.

 

[Ishmael]

I think the re-introduction of napalm would be fitting. And some Willy-Pete too.

Ishmael

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I think the re-introduction of napalm would be fitting. And some Willy-Pete too.

Ishmael

Youre a crippled numnutz so its natural you think shit.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Fossil





"Where does the phrase cut the mustard come from?

As with many slang and idiomatic phrases, the origin can be a bit unclear. The first recorded use of the phrase cut the mustard was by O. Henry in 1907, in a story called The Heart of the West: "I looked around and found a proposition that exactly cut the mustard". The modern sense of the idiom is 'to succeed; to have the ability to do something; to come up to expectations', but the phrase is most often used in the negative form, as "can't cut the mustard," meaning 'not able to handle the job'. The cut probably refers to harvesting the plant, so if one cannot cut the mustard, one cannot supply what is best. A phrase preceding cut the mustard is to be the mustard (c. 1903) meaning 'to be special' or 'to be exactly what is needed' with mustard being a slang term for importance. There is also another phrase keen as mustard meaning 'very enthusiastic'."

Dictionary.com

Eventually, you will have to stop denying instead of defining on your own terms.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cut

Here yuh go fuckhead.

 

[2bnot2b]

In my best J Kerry peace making role

I say to Johnson and Gump

forget MUSTARD

cut the KETCHUP

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RZzO764yXFw/maxresdefault.jpg

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://www.insideprison.com/article_assessments_psychopathic_personality_traits_scale.asp

For Ishmael and Fuckhead.

 

[Killswitch1]

Isis =/= Assad

Isis is because of that dipwad Nouri al-Maliki that Bush/Cheney put in office.

 

[2bnot2b]

but hey you, a LAWN MOWER pusher know better

Isis is because of that dipwad Nouri al-Maliki that Bush/Cheney put in office.

Former DIA Director Gen Flynn Says Obama Created ISIS, Supposedly To Overthrow Syrian Government




Retired Army Lt. Gen Michael Flynn, the former director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency is accusing the Obama regime of lying about the rise of ISIS and the assertion that they were somehow caught off guard. He says that far from being surprised by ISIS, the Obama regime allowed them to form in a deliberate act intended to unite Sunni Muslims against the Bashar al-Assad government in Syria.

According to a report in WND, the circumstances surrounding the rise of ISIS are similar to those claimed by Iran and other Arab nations, which state that it was the United States government that created ISIS. They sponsored, which means at a minimum organized and funded and most probably trained as well, radical jihadists who later became the Jabhad al-Nusra and ISIS, supposedly as forces to be used in fighting the Syrian government.



Flynn also verified the authenticity of a 2012 DIA document that was recently obtained by Judicial Watch through a FOIA request which had previously been classified with no foreign access but was now declassified in a heavily redacted form. WND quoted that text as stating, “This is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.”

Interviewed by Al Jazeera, Flynn left no room for doubt, stating, “It was a willful decision to do what they’re doing.”