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To: married21; swarthyguy

>> 2. What’s “mortal coil”? Is that a literary analogy?

Naw, it’s a car part. As in, “I was poking around under the hood with a screwdriver, and I drew an ‘arc upon my mortal coil’ that knocked my butt into the dirt.”


25 posted on 08/20/2009 1:39:33 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Nervous Tick; Kenny Bunk

>>>>What’s “mortal coil”? Is that a literary analogy?

>>Naw, it’s a car part.

Have you two met before?


27 posted on 08/20/2009 1:41:48 PM PDT by swarthyguy (MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
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To: Nervous Tick
Never use a screwdriver on a mortal coil, pal!

Ya gotta kinda shuffle it off. I guess you found that out the hard way.

33 posted on 08/20/2009 1:53:38 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Congratulations Obama Voters! You are not prejudiced. Unpatriotic, maybe. Dumb definitely.)
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