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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 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.
A pun?
> Here's another one:
> Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
LOL -- I gotta use time flies in my next D&D game. It'll probably go over
about as well as the lord of the ferries and the wight dwarf...
Almost-but-not-quite-related, but... There's a billboard for Hogle Zoo in
SLC, featuring a bullfrog:
"Time's fun when you're having flies."
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
"I've spent the past few years building up an immunity to bullets."
- Angus McGuire
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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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