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Subject:Re: Marvel at my stupidity From:barry -dot- kieffer -at- EXGATE -dot- TEK -dot- COM Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:36:01 -0700
The one that bugs me the most is:
"You can't have your cake and eat it too"
Dang blurm, why not?
Quoted correctly it is:
"You can't eat your cake and have it too"
-Barry
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> > I plan to add it to my list of misheard/misinterpreted words and phrases
> > that make a kind of sense anyway. "For all intensive purposes" is
> > another one I've seen recently. I see "mute point" every once in a
> > while. "Low and behold" mostly just bugs me.
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> > Julie Comstock-Fisher Documentation Manager
> > julief -at- pdainc -dot- com PDA, Inc.
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