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#149265 11/02/05 01:03 AM
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You can't say "I couldn't care less" with the right feeling. The "n't" just mucks up the rhythm and tone.

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#149266 11/02/05 02:17 AM
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There are five other black butterflies?




To be sure...thousands...lucky to get number six!
Or, as my mother used to tell me, "S.Q." which I thought was a French word, marking my first interest in my eventual major. Turns out it was "Silly Question."

#149267 11/02/05 02:22 AM
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You can't say "I couldn't care less" with the right feeling. The "n't" just mucks up the rhythm and tone.




Perhaps you could separate the contraction for more emphasis on the "not" and tilt your head just so during its utterance.

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just don't ask Yoda to say it...


formerly known as etaoin...
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Imagine Alice's waterpipe-smoking caterpillar...

#149270 11/02/05 03:49 AM
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just don't ask Yoda to say it...




Rang you me? [tilt]

#149271 11/02/05 11:09 AM
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Perhaps you could separate the contraction for more emphasis on the "not" and tilt your head just so during its utterance.




It's still way more limited in its possibilities.

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