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Subject:Malapropisms From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 27 Jan 1994 17:33:19 CST
I believe that the bet is $0.02. I'll see it, and raise.
"They went at it hammer and tongues."
--Mary Schafer
"Let's do this in one foul sweep."
--Wayne Clayton (Texas House Speaker)
"He eats like a horse afire."
--Angelina Bicos
"She picked a lawyer out of the phone book at ransom."
--Ina Kern
"This bill, if passed, will derail the ship of state."
--Stanley Steingut (Speaker of the NewYork Assembly)
"I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished
yourseelves this session."
--Gib Lewis (Texas House Speaker)
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/_______/__|_______\_/________\ When I use a word, it means just what I
choose it to mean--neither more nor less. -- Lewis Carroll
