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(...) c /could/couldn't/ or c /could care less/could care less, but not much,/ 8?) ROSCO FUT: wherever... (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.appraisal, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Ross: I just want you to know that Maggie, Larry, and yourself are all going to end up in hell. Grammar is of no consequence -- meaning is what matters. =oP -- Hop-Frog (wondering how this lugnut version of "No Exit" turns out) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 'Long as they've got a good supply of Vegemite, and heat-resistant technic beams, I'll be happy... ROSCO (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Trust me, if I ever say "could care less" there's an IMPLIED "but not much less" tacked on there.... (I am reminded, completely non apropos, of "Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." Can you name the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I am 0K with that as long as I get to take my toys. Satan no doubt will put me in charge of torturing dour Scotsmen who ask too many questions or some similarly small group, and one of them will no doubt be in charge of torturing *me*. (no one (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Either Churchill or Groucho. -John (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 8?) (...) It's rumoured that it was an English, cigar-smoking prime minister, however it was actually Sir Ernest Gowers in "Plain words" (1948), who started the anecdote with "It is said that Churchill...". So the correct answer's not all that (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I see both Rosco and Larry were able to reply without calling you on your improper use of a reflexive pronoun! But you knew I wouldn't be able to leave it alone, didn't you? Maggie (admittedly a bit tougher on anyone with a degree in English (...) (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ...and sucks syntax! John #388 (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ?? Communication wasn't did. What are you trying to say? (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Syntax sucks (only written using improper syntax... ;) John #388 (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yoda? (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Short? Check. Elderly? Check. Balding? Check. Ears that stick out? Check. Not the snappiest dresser? Check. Sometimes unintelligible to Americans? Check. But no. Yoda wasn't a cigar smoker. (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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