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To: austinTparty
"A clip into Qusay
and a clip in Uday"

A clip? like in a stripper clip? By the time you get them
pushed down inside the box of your 1903 Springfield, Uday and Qusay's body guards would have sprayed you thirty times from their AK's

A man of such reason and logic should know the difference between a magazine and a clip, don't you think?
56 posted on 07/23/2003 12:34:09 PM PDT by HadEnough
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To: HadEnough
Magazine doesn't rhyme with zip. Clip does. This is logical and is in fact reasonable in a bit of light verse. For example, want to take issue with Semper Paratus' use of the word "gruel"? Perhaps Uday and Qusay stopped in for a bit of mutton, perhaps they didn't eat at all. But since mutton doesn't rhyme with Mosul, and saying that "Uday and Qusay stopped in to not eat at all" is awkward, SP is using something called "poetic license."

For your edification:
poetic license (noun) -
1. license used by a writer or artist to heighten the effect of their work

Now that the frog has been dissected, let's move on to:

A man of [...]

Ah, assumptions, assumptions...

59 posted on 07/23/2003 12:50:18 PM PDT by austinTparty
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To: HadEnough
A man of such reason and logic should know the difference between a magazine and a clip, don't you think?

Poetic license.

89 posted on 07/30/2003 6:12:21 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
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