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Phoo · Tue May 01, 2007 9:38 am *from Friends*

These blow are lines from Friends sitcom, season1, episode 6.
I am not quite sure about the meanings.
Could　you paraphrase these sentences with easier words?

Thank you! Very Happy

1. She'll scratch your eyes right out.
2. You're Mom.
3. Most women would kill for three guys like us.
4. It felt like a 'big guy' moment.

Conchita · Tue May 01, 2007 16:56 pm *from Friends*

Here are my suggestions:

1. She will be furious with you.
2. You are Mum (Mother).
3. We are so attractive/irresistible/handsome (?) that most women would do anything for us.
4. It felt like the right thing to say (I'm not quite sure that's what was meant, though).

Phoo · Wed May 02, 2007 7:09 am *from Friends*

Thank you Conchita! It helped.

I have another sentense I want to know the meaning:

" What's messing you up?"

Could you help me again, thank you!!

Conchita · Wed May 02, 2007 10:47 am *from Friends*

Yankee · Wed May 02, 2007 12:45 pm *from Friends*

Hi Phoo

"What's messing you up" can also mean:

"What's causing the mix-ups/errors/difficulty in what you're doing?"
(i.e. It could refer to one specific task you're attempting to do, but are having trouble doing.)

It depends on the broader context.
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Phoo · Sun May 06, 2007 3:19 am *from Friends*

Thank you, Conchita.

How about this, could you rewrite this in another way for me?

"Some days it's all I can think about."

Phoo · Sun May 06, 2007 7:59 am *from Friends*

And one more,

"Can we be grown-ups now?"

Thanks!!

Alan · Sun May 06, 2007 8:37 am *from Friends*

Hi Phoo,

Phoo · Mon May 07, 2007 3:00 am *from Friends*

Thank you, Alan.

What do you put this below in other way to say?

"This from the cry-for-help department. Are you wearing makeup? "

Situation: Joy enter the room with makeup, and Chandler asks him this.

What is cry-for-help department?? and what's funny here??

Phoo · Mon May 07, 2007 5:12 am *from Friends*

And,

What's "family size bag of Funyuns"?

Diverhank · Mon May 07, 2007 5:51 am *from Friends*

I must be an odd ball as I don't like and don't watch Friends. As a result I don't know the characters well. When a normal man (Joy is hardly a name for a normal man) wears makeup...something is wrong. Chandler thinks Joy is crying out for help so he's mocking Joy by pretending to be from a made-up "department for cry for help" and asks the question...You are right..."Friends" is hardly funny to me Smile

Phoo · Tue May 08, 2007 7:43 am *from Friends*

Thanks for your commnet.

Do you know what "balled-up socks" mean?
This seems something to do with juggling of a monkey.

Is there anyone who knows FRIENDS EPISODE well?

Phoo · Tue May 08, 2007 10:31 am *from Friends*

And

" I was at the airport, getting into a cab, when this woman- this blonde planet with a pocketbook- starts yelling at me."

What's "blonde planet with a pocketbook"??

Diverhank · Tue May 08, 2007 17:58 pm *from Friends*

What's "blonde planet with a pocketbook"??
I'm guessing it's a very large (as big and round as a planet) blonde woman with money.

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