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Re: How many Metroliners is enough?
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Date: 
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:47:17 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Tom McDonald writes:
> 
> > In a very picky sense, I think the question needed to be further developed. I
> > didn't quite get the idea implied as being "enough": e.g., "enough to fill
> > one's closet", "enough to live on from selling them", "enough to run on a
> > bunch of track", "enough to completely block the sun in Fort Wayne", etc.  :)
> 
> While I certainly sympathise with your quest for accuracy,

I wasn't questing to be accurate so much as picky(1), but thanks for the
positive spin  :)  With the presidential debates happening just now, and thus
real detail lacking, I momentarily felt the need for more of it in my life.

> I must point out
> that you yourself could stand to develop some additional meaning here,
> Tommo...

All too true. And you developed your points quite well. With the exception of
the last item, I left plenty of room for additional meaning. Also in a very
real sense, we could all stand to develop some. Moreover, your post was the
most polite way I've heard this year to seemingly maintain such questing in
isolation.(2)


> To wit(3)

(snippage certainly added to my wit :)

-Tom McD.
when replying, In a hole in the ground there lived a spamcake.


(1) yet I failed there too
(2) i'll just go sit down over here...
(3) "to wit" said aloud quickly almost sounds like "twit", which is why I
added the snippage to my twit-wit :)



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  Re: How many Metroliners is enough?
 
(...) While I certainly sympathise with your quest for accuracy, I must point out that you yourself could stand to develop some additional meaning here, Tommo... To wit(1): How big of a closet? I've some big ones and some small ones. I like the big (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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