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Striker in waiting |
If you’re reading this, you’re probably online. If you’re reading this on your phone while waiting at the DMV, pharmacy, ticket window, etc., you’re online while in line. You don’t stand on line. Thanks. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | ||
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The Joy Maker |
Pretty sure "on line" is an acceptable alternative to "in line", it's just not used nearly as much, and as such gets weird looks when someone uses it. 
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
I always thought that "in line" was the alternative for "on line"--not that I've ever used the term. I've just always said "in line." Apparently, "on line" is a regional thing to New York and for those in the military? "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Never heard of "on line" used in any context other than to mean "being connected," "turned on/activated," or "on duty". And offline to mean the opposite of those. | |||
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Certified All Positions |
Correct. Arc. ______________________________ "Like a bitter weed, I'm a bad seed"- Johnny Cash "I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." - Pee Wee Herman Rode hard, put away wet. RIP JHM "You're a junkyard dog." - Lupe Flores. RIP | |||
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I thought that “on line” is more of a U.K. expression. Americans seem to prefer “in line.” Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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Drug Dealer |
Q: What's the term for a group of Brits standing in line for Vietnamese soup? A: Pho queue (It's bedtime: Nite-all.  )When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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Resident Knuckledragger |
I'm gonna have to draw a red line on this thread! | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Only Nhew Yawkhers say "stand on line." The rest of us speak English. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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| Help! Help! I'm being repressed!  |
In line is to queue up. On line is to be abreast of each other. | |||
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Yep Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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| Striker in waiting |
Now that makes sense to me - the line in the latter case being what one is on rather than what one is forming. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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Honky Lips |
maybe they did it "on" accident. | |||
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