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Pooh-Bah
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For those of you who may have missed it, there was a spot today on All Things Considered about that terrible substance, dihydrogenmonoxide.
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old hand
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Yeah, that stuff is hazardous, but I fear the ubiquity of salicylic acid.
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear Fiberbabe: but if many vegetables didn't sneak
salicylates into us, we'd all be vulnerable to myocardial
infarctions.
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old hand
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I fear the ubiquity of salicylic acid
Fear of ubiquitous things is of limited survival value: first of all they can't be that bad because otherwise we would not be here - and second, they are difficult to escape.
Thus, the fear may well do more harm than the thing feared.
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Carpal Tunnel
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the fear may well do more harm than the thing feared.
Surely right, Werner, and now a widespread modern phenomenon. Is that the cue for a coinage?
~ which is not the same as a queue for a coin age, or a Q for a quoinage
Perhaps something along the lines of fauxbia?
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Carpal Tunnel
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Hey, c'mon, weis bier. She said she feared salicylic acid's ubiquity. She din't say she feared salicylic acid.
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old hand
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She din't say she feared salicylic acidYeah, but didn't she mean it ?!
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Carpal Tunnel
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Yeah, but didn't she mean it?!, he riposted, adroitly crossing threads.
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Carpal Tunnel
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he riposted, adroitly crossing threads
Yeahbut®, you're assuming he did it intentionally.
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