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Myridon #169848 09/05/07 11:45 PM
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placeholder names

I would've called them metasyntactic variables (e.g., foo, bar, baz, and quux) from the term in computer science, but placeholder name works fine for me.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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"(supposedly)". I also know a Friendly Little Cat. Or perhaps you'd like a second-hand chair...

If I can't sell it, I'm gonna sit down on it.
I ain't gonna give it away.
Now darling if you want it, you're gonna have to buy it.
And I mean just what I say.

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