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- From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: DRINK IT ALL: One Awesome Calorie
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.223352.9802@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 22:33:52 GMT
- References: <C0r5C0.K7x@phage.cshl.org> <1iv5jfINNafh@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
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- In article <1iv5jfINNafh@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
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- >boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell) writes:
- >
- >>Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
- >
- >
- >Saying "good non-alcoholic beer" is like saying "good case of the clap."
- >
-
- Except that you don't actually say "case of the clap", and instead say
- "non-alcoholic beer". Many other phrases have this same property, which
- has become known as the Futile Theory and been abandoned as a linguistic
- principle since 1974. Other verifications of the Futile Theory are:
-
- "Good bye."
- "Good day." (Australian Futility, discovered by Bruce Miller, 1964)
- "Good show, I say." (Stereotypical British Futility)
- "Good God!" (Melodramatic B-Movie Futility)
- "Good gravy!" (Incomprehensible Grandmother Futility)
- "Good times mean great beer." (Monday Night Futility)
- "Good." (Plain Simple and Stupid Futility)
-
- Jason
- 1. e4 wins!
-