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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed
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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (280279)3/16/2004 1:59:20 PM
From: laura_bush  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
o/t LOL, GOD.

That's one I'm seeing more of recently. Reminds me of another one that has been "commonized" into gibberish, I think. "Cut to the chase."

I think that the original phraseology is "separating the wheat from the chaff." (I might be wrong in assuming that that "cut to the chase" is a bastardization. Are there two different such idioms???)

Seems that it should be, "cut to the CHAFF." OR, "cut THROUGH the CHAFF."

Things like this occupy my relatively vacant mind frequently. -g-

"lb"
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