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You come in here with a head full of mush and you leave thinking like a lawyer.
I've sometimes wondered whether the first part was a prerequisite for the second part.
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five to ten, or gimme the body
Something to do with sentencing (not in the grammatical sense, of course, you'd never catch *me verbifying a noun)?
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I've sometimes wondered whether the first part was a prerequisite for the second part.
"I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character."
--Woodrow Wilson
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five to ten, or gimme the body
I have absolutely no idea what this means.
oh, sure, let Ron~"I know seven thousand words that hardly exist outside of my website"~Obvious stomp all over me too, Judge! ;)
Well, as mah delightful friend said it was all to do with sentencing, asking (evidentally too) elliptically whether you were going to release the prisoner on a writ of Habeas Corpus or lock him up for a 5 to 10 stretch for contempt of court. I'm glad you find him not guilty - it suggests the book may be worthy of our grey cells. Pedantry should be no bar.
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I am abject in my ignorance but ebullient at being edified. [No stomping intended.]
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New acronym! New acronym! "a-b-e" -- I like that, Father Steve! 
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"a-b-e"1. "at being edified" 2. "abject but ebullient" I'm guessing 2? 
formerly known as etaoin...
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the use of "loose" for "lose" is endemic in cyberspace, and is most common among native English speakers.
And so easy to distinguish if one simply remembers the rhyming mnemonic.
"The moose is loose."
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> "The moose is loose."
Just be glad the cat's not upset...
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