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Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
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lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Tue, 18 May 1999 22:40:44 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:

John Neal wrote:
Lar said:
But since you asked... OJ got the right verdict, both times. IM(1)HO.

?? [1]

1 - (not at all)

[1] didn't you mean to put the footnote *after* "H"? ;-)

perform proper subexpression substitution (1) and you get
IMNAAHO
which after variable substitution(1) results in
In My Not At All Humble Opinion.

So no. it was in the right place. Anyone here think of me as humble?
Didn't think so.

(1) which, being a mac user, and therefore innumerate, you may not be
familiar with...

Holy purple imacs, Macman, we've been slighted! (I think)  Lar's quite
obscure here...must go look up "innumerate" in this context.  At least we
mac users don't end our sentences with prepositions;-)

-John



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  Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
(...) Real Computers are grey, or possibly black. Furthermore, that was a fragment, not a sentence. Stuff THAT up your 8 wide tunnel portal. (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
(...) Or periods. Apparently, anyway. (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page)
 
(...) BTW, The preposition rule doesn't really exist. It's up there with the one that says "never split infinitives," which doesn't really exist either. Bill Bryson wrote a rather entertaining exposition on it in _Mother Tongue_ that made a (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
(...) perform proper subexpression substitution (1) and you get IMNAAHO which after variable substitution(1) results in In My Not At All Humble Opinion. So no. it was in the right place. Anyone here think of me as humble? Didn't think so. (1) (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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