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#112958 - 09/30/03 05:27 PM Triptyc comments
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	I loved the quote attached with Anu's email today: Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time in reading it. Moses Hadas, teacher and author (1900-1966) Can anyone think of another short saying with three (or more) legitimately implied variant meanings?
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#112959 - 09/30/03 09:36 PM Re: Triptyc comments
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11582 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Let's see...how 'bout, "You are so talented--nobody can catch you at embezzling". Though I think that's only two.
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#112960 - 09/30/03 10:22 PM Re: Triptyc comments
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	I think Disraeli has prior dibs on this one. When an aspiring writer would send Disraeli an uninteresting manuscript to review, he liked to reply, "Dear Sir: I thank you for sending me a copy of your book, which I shall waste no time in reading." From the wikipedia entry on Disraeli: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#112961 - 10/03/03 07:57 AM Re: Triptyc
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	A Max-worthy pun, mav!
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#112962 - 10/03/03 08:46 AM Re: Triptyc comments
TheFallibleFiend veteran Registered: 01/23/02 Posts: 1523 Loc: Virginia, USA	A friend of mine who was studying semantics gave the following sentence which his class had discussed: My hobby is destroying my friends. k
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#112963 - 10/03/03 08:56 AM Re: Triptyc comments
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11582 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	My hobby is destroying my friends. Whew--it took me a minute, to come up with something besides the speaker liking to destroy his friends! Yow.
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#112964 - 10/03/03 03:28 PM Re: Triptyc comments
Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1814 Loc: Spam Factory	Sorry to be the dense one here, but I don't get the third meaning in "Dear Sir: I thank you for sending me a copy of your book, which I shall waste no time in reading." I see two: he will read it immediately, and he will not read it because he doesn't want to waste the time required to do so.
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#112965 - 10/03/03 03:39 PM Re: Triptyc comments
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13666	he will read it immediately Or the time he spends reading it will be well spent.
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#112966 - 10/04/03 10:16 AM Re: Triptyc comments
dodyskin addict Registered: 04/24/02 Posts: 475 Loc: manchester uk	how about: we saw her duck is that what you mean?
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#112967 - 10/04/03 06:20 PM Re: Triptyc comments
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	That'll do, duck! And I like the other example too :) Any more? I particularly liked the sly wit of the (disputed origin) saying.
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