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Re: Who oversees the rec.toys.LEGO newsgroup?
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Mon, 31 Jan 2000 04:38:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
Peter Callaway wrote:

So to draw a longish bow ...

This is an interesting usage, can you tell me what it means? To make a
farfetched argument by exaggeration?

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Are you referring to the use of this phrase or the content of my argument?
Have I used something incorrectly?


Pete Callaway



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  Re: Who oversees the rec.toys.LEGO newsgroup?
 
(...) I have no idea if you did or not, although I'd tend to doubt it. I'm asking what the phrase "to draw a longish bow" means, NOT trying to critique the overall argument. I snipped it all away except for the phrase because that's what I was (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Who oversees the rec.toys.LEGO newsgroup?
 
(...) This is an interesting usage, can you tell me what it means? To make a farfetched argument by exaggeration? (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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