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09-01-2006, 09:36 AM
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Snowflake
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Rare "Quintuple Negative"
(True Story)
This guy said to me, "I ain't never met nobody who didn't know how to make no napalm." That, my friends is a Quintuple Negative, which, remarkably, imparts a net positive. It breaks down like this: "I ain't [1st negative makes it negative] never [2nd negative makes it positive] met nobody [3rd negative makes it negative again] who didn't [4th negative makes it positive again] know how to make no [5th negative makes it negative again, again] napalm." The direct (net positive) statement would read: "Everyone I have ever met knows how to make napalm."
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09-01-2006, 09:38 AM
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still says videotape
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The sad thing is, I completely understood. Then again, I also know how to make napalm.
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09-01-2006, 09:46 AM
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Radical Centrist
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Excellent catch.
Old cellar user used to find mixed metaphors. "He was pursued by a sea of troubles" "You buttered your bread now lie in it" I added the category of attempted and failed metaphors. "Nobody has been able to take my argument and ridicule it with bullets" "He made out like a Band-Aid" |
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09-01-2006, 09:50 AM
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Snowflake
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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09-01-2006, 09:53 AM
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Snowflake
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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09-01-2006, 09:55 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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I ain't never buttered no bread no how.
(PS Flint, who are all these napalm makin' people you know?)
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09-01-2006, 09:58 AM
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Snowflake
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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09-01-2006, 10:17 AM
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erika
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...Reminds me of the time me and my druggie, pyromaniacal, mean, rude, insane best friend from Beijing and I made napalm and lit it off, then 'accidentally' (well he said it was accidental..) dropped it and burned a good couple square yards of pine needles to ash and ruined a couple pairs of shoes.
Fwboom!
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09-01-2006, 10:35 AM
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in the Hour of Scampering
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For those who can see Drexel University TV, Gwen and I will be on "In Bed With Butch" during the third week of October. The show will also be broadcast on WYBE-35 the weekend of the 21st.
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09-01-2006, 10:40 AM
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Snowflake
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It's funny, Maggie, I thought of you when I wrote that, although these guys were . . . not in your caliber.
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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09-01-2006, 11:02 AM
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go ahead, abbrev. it
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I'm pretty sure the know how part actually makes this a sixtuple negative.
-Nattering nabob of napalmistry.
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09-01-2006, 11:07 AM
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09-01-2006, 11:09 AM
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erika
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One thing...
Quintuple negatives are rare? They sure aren't rare in Alabama, and I would think it would be WORSE in Texas...
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09-01-2006, 11:25 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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no how vs. know how
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09-01-2006, 11:53 AM
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go ahead, abbrev. it
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no way
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