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Old 04-17-2006, 07:25 PM   #3
MaggieL
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Originally Posted by marichiko
...but the play on words using "like" is quite clever. I like you despite myself, Maggie.
Wel, I can't take personal credit for that one; it's a classic illustration of the non-local nature of parsing English grammar often attributed to Marx.

Groucho, that is.

But then...

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierre Bayle (1647-1706)
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
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