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Diamondrg Posted 19 years ago
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score the house call

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0A house call is when a doctor comes to your house, instead of you going to their office. To "score" something means to achieve or be awarded something that's difficult to get (it also means to get hold of some illegal drugs, but not in this context). "02br 02br 00(If you're going to post questions from "Lost" a lot, it would help me, at least, if you give a little more context -- who is speaking, to whom, and what just happened.

— Khoff

  • 0A house call is when a doctor comes to your house, instead of you going to their office.
  • To "score" something means to achieve or be awarded something that's difficult to get (it also means to get hold of some illegal drugs, but not in this context).
  • "02br 02br 00(If you're going to post questions from "Lost" a lot, it would help me, at least, if you give a little more context -- who is speaking, to whom, and what just happened.
  • For instance, in the "Jedi moment" question -- what happened right before that comment?
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0A house call is when a doctor comes to your house, instead of you going to their office. To "score" something means to achieve or be awarded something that's difficult to get (it also means to get hold of some illegal drugs, but not in this context). So the speaker (Sawyer?) is asking, "what did I do to deserve the honor of you coming to my house?"02br
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10(If you're going to post questions from "Lost" a lot, it would help me, at least, if you give a little more context -- who is speaking, to whom, and what just happened. For instance, in the "Jedi moment" question -- what happened right before that comment? I've seen most of the episodes of Lost but I h
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0So, the Jedi (in the Star Wars movies) were able to control things with their minds. I think a lot of Lost would be lost, so to speak, in translation (into . . . Turkish?) but the idea is that Jack is like a wise man teaching Shannon extraordinary mental powers. Like people called fakirs in India -- do you have anything like that in your tradition?02br
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