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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!pizzabox.demon.co.uk!gtoal
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: "Have a Nice Day"
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:55:49 +0000
- Message-ID: <9301211055.AA27444@pizzabox.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- :He once told another lady about this technique of "tiny revenge." She liked
- :it a lot, and tried to put it into practice. Unfortunately, prevarication
- :is a skill, and her expression came out slowly, and at the top of her voice.
- :Needless to say, her revenge was NOT subtle.
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- Congratulations! You win the alt.usage.english prize for being the first
- person I've spotted on the net to use 'prevarication' properly.
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- A second prize awaits the first person to use 'procrastination' *at all*, as
- its use seems to have been wholly subsumed by prevarication :-(
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- G
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