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Subject:	Re: While I've got you here... (Was Re: FOTY: What a find!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:53:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Maggie Cambron writes: > 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? 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

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		Re: While I've got you here... (Was Re: FOTY: What a find!)
(...) Billy Connolly did an excellent routine where he described people who do the <wiggle fingers> quote thing, and then went on to advocate the mimed addition of all punction to conversation. Cheers Richie (25 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		While I've got you here... (Was Re: FOTY: What a find!)
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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