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Thanks for the responses. Very helpful.
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Quote:
Mavrick posted:
hi stervius, and welcome.
I think you might have heard something like "a Scyllian choice", which is a reference to the Greek legend that is the origin of the expression noted by of Troy - between a rock and a hard place. The rock-dewlling monster was Scylla and Charybdis was a whirlpool: sailing the strait between them indeed left Odysseus no good options.
Hi new poster stervius, welcome and stick around.
And Maverick, you must take care with whom you credit. 
Your slip of miss-crediting of troy and and not properly crediting Miss Consuello might make being "between a rock and a hard place" seem like a piece of cake. 
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Not to be confused with a hobson jobson. Stop calling me jobson. 
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You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, but you don't has to call me Jobson.
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actually, milo, i know i wouldn't mind, and i suspect Consuela, too, might enjoy getting Mav stuck between us..
i don't know about the rock, but i can guess (accurately) about the hard place!
(of course mav might want to mind his quotes to avoid such a dilemma.. spoil sport that he is!)
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Speaking of which, for whom, exactly, is it preferable to be caught between the horns of a dilemma?
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Good question. I'm more used to "on the horns of a dilemma." At the risk of being called a Ghit:
On the horns of a dilemma: 142,000
Between the horns of a dilemma: 333
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Quote:
You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, but you don't has to call me Jobson.
Why has it become my plight to correct the sage wisdom of the erstwhile Father Stevereno?
Rather,
You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay; but you doesn't have to call me Mister Jobson. 
Ed: Oops!
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I am easily corrected by my betters. It is something to which I become accustomed over the years. That, perhaps, is why God invented bishops and appellate courts and milums.
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And bananas. Father Steve was overturned on a peel.
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