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I loved the quote attached with Anu's email today:
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time in reading it. Moses Hadas, teacher and author (1900-1966)
Can anyone think of another short saying with three (or more) legitimately implied variant meanings?
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Let's see...how 'bout, "You are so talented--nobody can catch you at embezzling". Though I think that's only two.
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I think Disraeli has prior dibs on this one. When an aspiring writer would send Disraeli an uninteresting manuscript to review, he liked to reply, "Dear Sir: I thank you for sending me a copy of your book, which I shall waste no time in reading."
From the wikipedia entry on Disraeli: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_DisraeliBingley
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A Max-worthy pun, mav!
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A friend of mine who was studying semantics gave the following sentence which his class had discussed:
My hobby is destroying my friends.
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My hobby is destroying my friends. Whew--it took me a minute, to come up with something besides the speaker liking to destroy his friends! Yow.
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Sorry to be the dense one here, but I don't get the third meaning in "Dear Sir: I thank you for sending me a copy of your book, which I shall waste no time in reading." I see two: he will read it immediately, and he will not read it because he doesn't want to waste the time required to do so.
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he will read it immediately
Or the time he spends reading it will be well spent.
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how about: we saw her duck
is that what you mean?
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That'll do, duck! And I like the other example too :) Any more? I particularly liked the sly wit of the (disputed origin) saying.
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