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#4674 10/16/00 12:34 AM
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Ah, wouldn’t it be so exotic if I could say I knew these ladies socially. The answer is a tad more prosaic…there has been a rash (ooo maybe the wrong word to use while discussing this subject) of disciplinarians in the courts lately trying to have their profession legalized. Can’t help but catch your eye.


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Can’t help but catch your eye.

Could not the same be said for the tools of their profession, if wielded ineptly?



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Very apropos to current topic and original thread post...

And the cat-‘o-nine tails kissed him gently like the fangs of a viper.

Now is that a simile? A mixed methaphor?




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the tools of their profession, if wielded ineptly

The Canadian courts rule so bold
How Miss Discipline tenders her hold –
Yet a movement too rash
Means the slash of the lash
Catches eyes, closed in judgmental cold



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A simile in currency in Northampton when I lived there, describing someone who was in the throes of indecision, was, "He wore (i.e, was) warnderin' abowt like a faart in a colander, wonderin' which 'ole to drop threw."


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