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Re: So?
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Date: 
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:04:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
Sproaticus wrote:

Larry Pieniazek wrote:
As long as you get what you neeeed...  :-) (or is a stones reference
dating me?)

Better than a Stones groupie dating you!  :-,

?? How so? Some of those groupies were pretty hot.

This is an example of a figure of speech that I don't recall the name of
but which I find to be pretty funny. Here's another one:

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

It's called oversimplification.  Fruit flies also like oranges.  Or, if you
like, fruit can also fly like a grape.  <duck & cover>(1)

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/

1: A respected hunter's blind manufacturor ;-)



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(...) ?? How so? Some of those groupies were pretty hot. This is an example of a figure of speech that I don't recall the name of but which I find to be pretty funny. Here's another one: Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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