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if Mr Ferrer is "stuck," he ain't agoing no-where
I must respectfully disagree with Rhuby regarding being stuck in reverse. The onliest question I see is whether this is a logical double negative or an emphatic double negative. I must stand up firmly in favor of the former. Being stuck in reverse on an expressway that's going in the opposite direction to the direction you wish to go will get you where you want to be, albeit not as fast as you might wish due to the low gear ratio normally found in a reverse gear (Thelema and Louise notwithstanding)
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yeahbut! when did you last try reversing down an expressway? That surely leads only to the morgue, whatever the heading of the road 
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Good point, Mav.
my theory is that, given the danger you mention of attempting to backpedal, if you find yourself heading the wrong direction, you might as well just sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery. there'll be an offramp a ways down the road anyhow, and heck... by that time, you may have rethought your destination. =)
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and since Mr. Ferraro's bid for Mayor seems to be dead in to be water...I guess he is on the way to the morgue.
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From the front page of today's The New York Times:
"Despite High Hopes, Drug Plan May Be Disappointing To Elderly"
I will part with custom and explain myself. This headline is noteworthy for two reasons:
First, the prosaic--it is because of their high hopes, and not in spite of them, that the elderly might be disappointed; and
Second, the newspaper editorializes when it seeks imbue the notion of hope with a potency that is, by nature, foreign to hope. That the hopes of its constituency should have the power directly to affect the policy of any politician is almost too much to wish, but the suggestion that hope should have any power whatever over the decision making of one without legal standing to occupy the office he displaces air in is brazen. By implying a causal relation, The Times legitimates the office of the pretendership and endorses the growth of tyranny.
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"Despite High Hopes, Drug Plan May Be Disappointing To Elderly"Huh. I read a drug pun into that... And usually my mind is in a different gutter.  
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Despite High Hopes, Drug Plan May Be Disappointing To Elderly"
it is because of their high hopes, and not in spite of them
Form, my good Rock Island.
The Drug Plan will be disappointing to the Elderly despite their High Hopes. Not the Elderly will be disappointed because... Their High Hopes were insufficient to sway the good graces of the Plan.
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I think the whole thing was written incorrectly. It should have read, as FB has implied, "their hopes of getting high".
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Faldage has it right (though limitations of the software make it hard to do it completely correctly). A Cyrillic "p" does look like an "n" to English speakers, and an "r" looks like a "p" and a "d" looks like a "g". The only fudge was a "B" for a "v" - which actually looks like a scripted "b". A "b" looks like a backward "b".
As for the magazine covers, I know a man who converted to Christianity after having a vision. It didn't do any good to point out to him that plenty of people have visions during alcohol-induced dehydration, which is what he'd described as the circumstances surrounding his conversion experience. (shrug) People believe what they want to believe. Facts are so unfashionable.
Cheers,
Bryan
Cheers,
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You are only wretched and unworthy if you choose to be.
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Now don't whinge that no-one replies to your posts, caradea!
The UK Times July 21st reported on a paraplegic pilot having flown round the world. "The 30,000 mile journey round the world included the historic London-to-Sydney centenary air race. ..... The London-to-Sydney centenary race was held to celebrate the Great Air Race of 1919...."
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