Read them and see - if they were being spoken to you they would come across differently, but you wouldn't necessarily stop and wonder what the hell in context. You'd kinda-sorta get it, which is the goal of that TYPE of communication, and you'd both move on. They're the explanations of someone who was told what the deal was, and then stated it in his own way. Compare and contrast to a Quayleism:
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." - D. Quayle
Now THAT'S just someone dumb trying vainly to make an intellectual statement...
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