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Yes, I have noticed that the [a] gets left out a lot. I think I may have believed the [a] was not in there for some time, though I eventually learned the truth.
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Yes, I have noticed that the [a] gets left out a lot. I think I may have believed the [a] was not in there for some time, though I eventually learned the truth. Even now I sometimes forget.
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Whoops, sorry. I thought of something to add at the last second and pushed the "stop" button - guess I pushed it too late. 
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Having seen the film "The Dish" recently, as I posted in another thread, I was reminded of Neil Armstrong's immortal words:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
I admire the (intended) sentiments, allegedly Neil's own words, not those of NASA or the US government, but it has always bugged me that he left out the critical article "a", thus seriously undermining the meaning. Indeed the quote is sometimes rendered as:
"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind".
All of which simply goes to prove that the whole Moon landing was a giant hoax, a fraud involving tens of thousands of people who managed to keep the secret without any leaks over several decades. 
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Of course! And you know the earth has got to be flat, no matter what they try to tell us!
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..."COPROLITES HAPPEN".
Which is precisely why I howl with laughter at the Chevrolet truck advertisements exclaming, "Like a rock!"
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For all interested in this thread I highly recommend the book, "The Portable Curmudgeon" by Jon Winokur. He also has a sequel, "A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love," which is just the ticket for Valentine's Day.
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Thanks, Geoff; good idea, esp. since I bought my husband "The Portable Curmudgeon" a couple of years ago.
(I vill say nothink...nothink!)
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So you might call it a Port-a-mudgeon? Just a thought... 
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Port-a-mudgeonSounds like an excellent repository for an old fossil's coprolites!  Ooh, the mileage I could get out of that one!
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