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Tammy Hale wrote:
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As an editor, I've come across incredibly annoying
cliches. I can't use them in my seminar because the writers of those cliches
will be in the audience. One of the worst ones was "When you're creating a
popmenu *on the fly..*" Yuck!
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Anybody else cursed with a visually literal imagination? I immediately got a
mental image of someone positioning a mouse cursor over the tail end of a large
dipteran. One firm press of the button yields a 5-item command menu. Angry
buzzing in the background.
@Kat
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