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[lucy_ever]

hi,what's the meaning_____ old dogs new *beep*
i saw this phasewhen i watching sex and the city yesterday ,and i can't catch the meaning so any volunteers want help me,thanks a lot

[Lorikeet]

You might want to put the word that says "beep" so that there is a star or hyphen or space. For example, if I type the name *beep*, the computer thinks it's a bad word and beeps it. So I can type D i c k or D*i*c*k or D-i-c-k. (Unless of course someone can figure out what it is.)

[CP]

The only thing I've heard that might fit is, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

But the naughty-word robot doesn't bleep "tricks," so maybe that's not it.
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You live a new life for every new language you speak. -Czech proverb

[lucy_ever]

sorry it's old dogs new *beep* i made a mistake

[CP]

Dear Lucy,

Whenever you write the last word of the expression, a robot turns it into the word *beep*, either because it is a naughty word or resembles a naughty word or is on a list of words that might be used as naughty words.

You have to write the naughty word with spaces or hyphens in it to get past the naughty-word robot.

Examples: s h i t, s-e-x.

Until we can see the last word, we can't know what the original expression was. (And I'm really getting curious now.)
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You live a new life for every new language you speak. -Czech proverb

[lucy_ever]

yaaa it's old dogs new d. i. c.k.s. adn i have a new one.now ica say a packet of cigarettes, so if i put ten packets of cigarettes into a one box .how can i express this ? thanks aot

[Lorikeet]

It's a carton of cigarettes. And here we say a pack of cigarettes. (I don't know if a "packet" is used somewhere else.)