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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!hwcs!neilg
  2. From: neilg@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil MG Gall)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: Re: Words that are Opposites...
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.123919.4817@cs.hw.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 12:39:19 GMT
  7. References: <C17z6D.ILD@mach1.wlu.ca>
  8. Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
  9. Organization: Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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  12. In article <C17z6D.ILD@mach1.wlu.ca>, brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca (breadner ken u) writes:
  13.  
  14. ** A "fat chance" and a "slim chance" are one and the same.
  15.  
  16. Would you not say "a fat chance" sarcastically, and "a slim chance" when
  17. you were being more sincere ?
  18.  
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  20. |  Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles,   |     Neil M.G. Gall     |
  21. |      for they shall be known as Wheels.       |   neilg@uk.ac.hw.cee   |
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