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To: Tax-chick

5,034 posted on 05/12/2015 7:13:05 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ("YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR BADGE!")

To: ThomasThomas

LOL! That’s good, too.

5,035 posted on 05/12/2015 7:15:11 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("He's not my prophet, he's just some dead bloke." ~ Mark Steyn)

To: ThomasThomas; NoCmpromiz; NicknamedBob; Monkey Face; Harmless Teddy Bear; Anoreth

Here is something I learned reading “The Christmas Stories of Anthony Trollope”:

You know the locution, “It is a thing,” as in, “I set the Defliberation Laser Transmogrifier speed to Sporkweasel.”

“Oh, is that a thing?”

Well, Anthony Trollope was using that very phrase back in the 1870s.

5,036 posted on 05/12/2015 7:36:28 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("He's not my prophet, he's just some dead bloke." ~ Mark Steyn)

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