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Subject:	While I've got you here... (Was Re: FOTY: What a find!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:49:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler writes: > In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron writes: > > > pretty much all I can report lately is finding a one-legged Belville > > girl-- who is now sitting atop my monitor keeping my one-legged Technic guy > > company (they prop each other up). > > Ah, codependency! Let me guess--her name is Eileen, and they met at a > butt-kicking contest. > > Dave! Say, Dave! I just heard an example another thing that makes no sense to me. It's when people who orally quote others say, "Quote, unquote" *before* launching into the actual quote. I'm only glad I heard it on the radio this time because when people do it in a conversation they make it worse by invariably holding up two fingers of each hand and wiggling them like insect antennae. Is this awful tendency universal? Maggie (still trying to think of an appropriate name for the guy)

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		Re: While I've got you here... (Was Re: FOTY: What a find!)
(...) Dunno about universal, but it's common here in Aus, too. I think you can (at least partly) blame the inventors of the game of "Charades", where one uses the insect impersonation to indicate one's phrase is a quotation. ROSCO (22 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: While I've got you here... (Was Re: FOTY: What a find!)
(...) The insect tendency indeed is universal, we do it here in .il too. I encountered the "quote, unquote" saying with my history teacher, who did not use th insect motion, and therefore confused me greatly, because she said it very fast, and (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: FOTY: What a find!
(...) Ah, codependency! Let me guess--her name is Eileen, and they met at a butt-kicking contest. Dave! (22 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)

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