I would expect you to understand better, how such things are contextualised. Mary is a passageway, a channel.
Unless you think that the lamp cord is the electricity, you should not have a problem discerning these things.
SD
So even you don't like my analogies. :o(
I would expect you to understand better, how such things are contextualised.
There exists a threshold where the content of what is said overrides the accompanying disclaimer. Consider the anti-war protesters, who are always quick to assert "but we support our troops".
We obviously disagree as to whether or not this threshold was surpassed in these examples.
BigMack