# Maximum Wage?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 23, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063 "2013-10-23T22:25:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 17\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/1 "2013-10-23T22:25:58Z")

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Help turn some common concepts upside down.

Tight cannon  
Dying loser  
Speed of dark

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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/2 "2013-10-24T00:50:40Z")

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Collateral repair

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**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/3 "2013-10-24T01:03:40Z")

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I don’t oversit the point of this. Even after reading the original pre twice, I’m still found at sea.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/4 "2013-10-24T01:20:57Z")

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> [@armedmonkey](#):
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> I don’t oversit the point of this. Even after reading the original pre twice, I’m still found at sea.

You done broke the code.

ETA: others:

Senior penalty  
Speed limit: light  
Guilty bystander

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/5 "2013-10-24T02:03:58Z")

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Clean tricks

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**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/6 "2013-10-24T02:09:05Z")

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Flaming hetero

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/7 "2013-10-24T02:16:10Z")

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Airing clean laundry  
Son of a nice woman  
Putting the candle out at both ends  
Burning the noon oil

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**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/8 "2013-10-24T02:38:55Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Help turn some common concepts upside down.
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> Tight cannon  
> Dying loser  
> Speed of dark

I’m struggling with dying loser.  
What’s that supposed to be a take on?

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**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/9 "2013-10-24T02:51:54Z")

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Snatch so-so from the jaws of mediocrity.  
A bird in the hand is worth a george w. Bush.  
She sells seashells because her father is an alcoholic.  
Putting your pants on a third leg at a time.  
A watched pot of meth never boils your eyeballs.  
Teach a man to fish; then while he’s fishing steal his car.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/10 "2013-10-24T03:09:24Z")

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> [@zoid](#):
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> I’m struggling with dying loser.  
> What’s that supposed to be a take on?

born

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/11 "2013-10-24T03:17:49Z")

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The brave dragon slays the ice breathing knight, and gains the prince’s hand in marriage.  
Medusa: Her gaze turns stone into men.

Actually a cool idea I think.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/12 "2013-10-24T03:21:57Z")

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I once saw River Tam, from _Firefly_, described as “batshit sane”.

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**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/13 "2013-10-24T03:26:54Z")

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This thread is full of sequiturs, many of them quite descript.

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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/14 "2013-10-24T16:43:17Z")

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Dark bulbs, Hamburger Hinderer, Wheat thicks.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/15 "2013-10-24T16:54:48Z")

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I usually appear maculate. And cognito. And I’m often up to some good.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/16 "2013-10-24T16:56:06Z")

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a blood-clotting scream  
Last Won’t  
murder for rent  
justice for several  
Turn Loose, Sloopy

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maximum-wage/672063/17 "2013-10-25T21:23:35Z")

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board and mortar store
