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Re: While I've got you here... (Was Re: FOTY: What a find!)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 21 Mar 2002 05:17:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ross Crawford writes:
> 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?
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> 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.
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
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