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>temporarily derailing one's thoughts
heaven forbid that any vaguely dyslexic people get near you!
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>Well, a cube is an abstract geometrical shape
The sentiment above must be taken with a grain of salt.
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I remember as a little human, looking at grains of salt (the store-bought, iodized kind) under a magnifying glass. If I recall correctly, each grain was a cube, or at least cuboid. So, take a sentiment about a cube with a cube!
(Looking at what I have written, it dawns on me that perhaps TEd intended to allude to the cuboid properties of salt, in a double-entendre sorta-kinda way?)
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That would be our TEd's way, for sure, Dgeigh.
the ‘touchy-feely’ sphere, or the ‘prickly’ box? Ooh, prickly box, prickly box! "Vaguely pregnant"--I love it! 
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I've seen cushions that could be described as being 'vaguely cubical.'
Interesting to read here the various applications of 'vaguely'--but I don't supposed a person could be described as being 'vaguely vague'?
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I don't supposed a person could be described as being 'vaguely vague'? Oh, go ahead: supposed!
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> looking at grains of salt
"Salt actually comes in several different kinds of shapes. Refined salt, commonly called "table salt," is fairly regular in shape, because it has been through several machines before it was packaged, and in order to make it easy to pour or shake, the grains are sort of rounded. Then there is rock salt, which is in irregular chunks. We could hit a couple chunks of rock salt with a hammer, and get a more natural shape of granule. Kosher salt is sea salt, and the grains are somewhat squared."
Not far off 'vaguely cubical', hey!
By the way, the third part of the film thriller series which started with 'Cube', then 'Hypercube', is running in theatres. Its title? - Cube Zero
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Recalls the old line about being 'a little bit pregnant'. Also, can those of us currently on the frontline of pregnancy introduce a third option between touchy-feely and prickly box? Can we please please please be pregnantly vague. (I love the connotation of something impending, but undefined...  )
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