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Gertrude Stein about a city whose name I forget:"There's no there there."
Dear Slithy: Right you are:What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there."
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Easy for you, dr. bill, but not to my poor mind. But I think the answer is "none of the ab-b-b-bove".
Blow, blow, thou winter wind / Thou art not so unkind / As man's ingratitude; ...
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, / That does not bite so nigh / As benefits forgot
But methinks I seest a cross thread ...
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Cool list, wwh! Don't see why we could paste it here if we put it in quotes with the url... Think it would be ok?
And, AR, there are several rhetorical examples on that list that at least show the ways in which some of the words from our own examples have been repeated if we felt like parsing here...but none that I noticed in first scannning mentioning the useless repetition overall .
B-b-b-best regards,
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An elementary battology  The sun did not shine. / It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house / All that cold, cold, wet day.
I sat there with Sally. / We sat there, we two.
And I said, "How I wish / We had something to do!"
Too wet to go out / And too cold to play ball.
So we sat in the house. / We did nothing at all.
So all we could do was to / Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit!
And we did not like it. / Not one little bit.
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and if we allow slightly longer chunks: Punctuate the following: (four sentences) "That that is is that that is not is not that that is is not that that is not that that is not is not that that is is not that so?" (spoil your fun if you want to:) "That that is, is. That that is not, is not. That that is, is not that that is not. That that is not, is not that that is. Is not that so?"PS. That is from the same book of shut-in puzzles and other activities ("The Big Good Time Book" was its title) in which I came across (in 1947!) "Tom, where Tim had had "had," had had "had had;" "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher." See PaulB's post eleven (flat-view) entries above, and also http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=57545 from 2/22/02. But Paulb's was fist.
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