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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 01:31 AM
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Poll question: Favorite Self Annihilating Sentence
SELF-ANNIHILATING SENTENCES

Saul Gorn's Compendium

Of Rarely Used Cliches

First Revised Edition

Saul Gorn

Technical Report MS-CIS-85-O3


January 1985


Department of Computer and Information Science

The Moore School

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA 19104

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~rclark/gorn.html
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 01:34 AM
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1.  Way down deep he's shallow. " "Way down deep he's shallow."
That's a good one
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 01:43 AM
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2. Don't give up hope. There's a chance the inevitable won't happen.
I liked that one...
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 01:44 AM
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3. Apropos of our current circumstances...
... "In absolute monarchy, any leader can be a fool, but in absolute democracy, any fool can be a leader."

:P
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 02:16 AM
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4. I kind of like "It's probably a lot worse than it is"
It can't decide whether it's optimistic or pessimistic. It's kind of suspended there.
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-05 12:58 PM
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5. Just because I have nothing to say is no reason why you shouldn't listen.
kick for the day crowd
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