mixing metaphors

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 23 13:36:55 UTC 2010


But Dracula was bloody chuffed...
DanG

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Yeah, the Lone Ranger was pissed.
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> JL
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> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com
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> >  http://bit.ly/9vNJH7
> > "This is a big deal -- a gargantuan deal -- and we dodged a silver
> > bullet," Shelton wrote, according to Agence France-Presse.
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> > Dodging a silver bullet? Really?
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