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I have to say that the yarn is as long as the thread from which it is made up.
Technically, that's true, Rhub, but once a yarn becomes a yawn, it's a waste of thread.
Qualitatively, a thread is only as long as the yarn.
Quantitatively, it can yawn on long after the yarn is finished.
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In best, faldagian nit-picking mode
There's nothing wrong with a nit-picker, Rhub, as long as he sticks to his own knitting.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with a nit-picker who is helping to knit the knitting.
Too many nit-pickers want to unknit the knitting.
How many nits could a nit-picker knit if a nit-picker could learn knitting?
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as a KNITTER, i take umberage at the suggestion that i have lice (or as they are better known, cooties!) or that i spend time with cooties.-- i know that nit picking is endless task (and NYC, for one, has at least one professional nit picker, who hastens childrens return to school by clearing there hair of nits for a substantial fee.) but nit picking and knitting have nothing in common. (when knitters pick at their knitting, they either 'tink' (work backwards stitch by stitch to undo a mistake, or they FROG (Rip it, rip it, rip it!) back rows and rows of work to resolve a long past problem. But they never nit pick! 
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when knitters pick at their knitting, they either 'tink' (work backwards stitch by stitch to undo amistake, or they FROG (Rip it, rip it, rip it!) back rows and rows of work to resolve a long past problem. But they never nit pick!
Then we need more tinkers and fewer Froggers around here,
de Troy.
Regardless, at the end of the day, the business of knitting should be about knitting.
Tinking should be an exception, not the rule.
When tinkers rule the roost, tinkers think tinking is thinking.
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Don't ever (leave) tinkers to chance.
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Don't ever (leave) tinkers to chance.
Dam the tinkers. If they go on strike, we'll get a frogger to fill the void.
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ooh, a double play (on words).
Ruthless.
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ooh, a double play (on words)
I'm just trying to say that voids (in the line-up) are easier to fill than empty seats (in the stadium).
If you want to grow the franchise, you have to enfranchise the audience.
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