what does "pulling any punches" mean?

[knowbody0]

O'Liely says he's not pulling any punches then catapults the propaganda

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Literally, pulling a punch means

stopping just short of popping somebody, so if O'Lielly's saying he's not pulling any punches, he means he's going to go ahead and be nasty. So what else is new?

[knowbody0]

3. a very strange choice of words

tuned in. tuned out. sad that more people watch him than any other.

;(

[NMDemDist2]

2. handy website

Pull no punches
If you pull no punches, you hold nothing back.

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/p.html

[knowbody0]

4. thanks!

[Sugar Smack]

5. What does "Take no prisoners" mean, for that matter?

I've often wondered that, but there doesn't seem to be a way to find it out. Can someone explain where that came from and what it means?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. I take it to mean destroy the enemy.

[Sugar Smack]

7. Thank you, sweet bijoux. Not sparing another's

existence/arguments/point of view but sort of shattering any kind of comeback.

By the way, I loved your Geckos more than I can say. By the way, I'm so glad to see you got off your ass and worked to further the Gecko agenda. Myself, I went from making 100,000 a year to 30 cause I went door to door in the pursuit of Gecko importance and never once stayed in the lounge posting mindless drivel.

:rofl: :patriot:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Yeah, I've been working hard to further the Leopard gecko and...

the homosexual agenda lately. In fact, I even have the homosexual agenda in a purple folder on my bedroom floor. I've never earned more than $20,000 a year, but I would turn down any $110,000 job offer for the sake of furthering the gecko and homosexual agendas.

[Sugar Smack]

10. *unattractively spits beer out nose*

LOL!LOL! Yeah! But have you got off your duff & written letters to congressmen and sat by the phone and stuff, and have you employed all your cervix-thread-posting time to better further the Lesbian Gecko cause, slacker? I'm surprised & somewhat appalled you haven't been braggart enough to expound on this. Where're your balls, mamma?

Not squashed in some purple folder on the floor. You must be a terrorist.

:rofl: and :loveya:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. Aside from online petitions then no.

Of course, I will be calling out my congressman purposely in a couple months regarding the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy during a sit-in inside a military recruitment center, which will end most likely with my arrest. I just never felt a sudden urge to post about my activism, except regarding protest pictures on my now finished, but somewhat ongoing legal stuff involving my protest arrest (which other DUers knew about and were interested in).

Perhaps I can go join in on the political masturbation in GD:P though.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

9. Well for Bill it means

that he won't go up against anyone who will knock his block off. Which means just about anyone. :rofl:

[Writer]

12. Here's one I don't understand: "... suffer fools."

For instance "He doesn't suffer fools." Say wha'?

[knowbody0]

13. there otta be a law

i like to take things literally. wait! i don't really mean i will TAKE them.

how 'bout "for Pete's sake" who the hell is Pete?

a diversion, i so need a diversion

[Blue_In_AK]

15. St. Peter, perhaps?

:shrug:

[Sugar Smack]

14. Hey, you! I think it means

suffering through the wasted minutes of one's life as another strives half-heartedly to get it. A non-fool, plagued with the realization that life will end, sooner or later, can't squander it in the presence of a fool. Squandering precious life is painful, and pain is suffering. The non-fool cuts his or her communtication short:

"I'd love to stay and chat, but I need to clean the lint trap in my dryer"

or

"Piss off".

:D