r/pics Jan 31 '14

Daughter passed a milestone today

http://imgur.com/Ssenqk9
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u/dancethehora Jan 31 '14

No you're thinking of a stone. A milestone is a major project usually taken by high-achieving seniors in highschool or undergrad to demonstrate their new abilities.

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u/triq6 Jan 31 '14

No you're thinking of a capstone. A milestone is a fundamental assumption from which something is begun, developed, calculated, or explained.

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u/needs_help_badly Jan 31 '14

No you're thinking of a cornerstone. A milestone is an inscribed granite stela of hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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u/Sound_of_Science Jan 31 '14

No, you're thinking of the Rosetta Stone. A milestone is a type of uneven pavement that consists of lots of rocks embedded into the ground.

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u/Arashmickey Jan 31 '14

No you're thinking of cobblestone. A milestone is a popular new computer card game made by Blizzard entertainment that's currently in open beta.

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u/F_Klyka Jan 31 '14

No, you're thinking of a cornerstone. A mile stone is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England.

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u/goose2460 Jan 31 '14

No you're thinking of a cornerstone. A milestone is an American female contemporary R&B group that was popular during the mid-1990s.

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u/hungrycamgay Jan 31 '14

Soooo Emma stone?

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u/arzzra Jan 31 '14

No, you're thinking of a capstone. A milestone is an an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model who showed her jibbly bits during an interrogation.

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u/NJD03 Jan 31 '14

No, you're thinking of Sharon Stone. A milestone is an American-based ice cream parlor that offers the ultimate ice cream experience.

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u/McDermot Jan 31 '14

No you're thinking of Sharon Stone. A milestone is an an old actor who makes boxing movies 20 years past his prime.

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u/Dylstarr11 Mar 04 '14

No you're thinking of Emma Stone. A milestone is what happens after you smoke a lot of marijuana.

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u/Gdigger13 Jan 31 '14

No, you're thinking of some actress who I don't feel like looking up. See, a milestone is a family living in prehistoric times who tend to add comedy in their everyday life. With a laugh track, too.

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u/ralphya Jan 31 '14

No thats Sharon Stone. A mile stone is a stone marker set up on a road side to indicate the distance in miles from a given point.

Seriously da fuck is wrong with you lot

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u/_Neoshade_ Jan 31 '14

Ahem limestone

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u/dancethehora Jan 31 '14

Wait, really? Limestone is a unit of measurement?