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what the hell is this little guy doin on a soap box?


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Oh, and the phrase originates from ancient Greece, I believe... people would stand up on boxes (I don't know if they were actually soap boxes though, lol), using them as a makeshift stage from which they would talk about whatever it was they had to say... this is also where "soap operas" originated.

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Originally posted by phatman

...they were orators - public speakers - and accordingly their speeches were orations...

Orators... yes... that would be the word I was looking for!

Originally posted by phatman

...but i dont think they had soap back then so much as oils and little boys to apply them on the men...

I'm not sure which is more appropriate... :laugh: or :yuck:

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Originally posted by tastyt

"Get off your soap box." - Expression used when someone's thought to be lecturing too much. Not like a professor, but someone, say, trying to push their morals down someone else's throat.

Reminds me of Lucy from Charlie Brown in her doctor's office

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