mixing metaphors (UNCLASSIFIED)

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Mon Oct 25 16:12:21 UTC 2010


That's why I always leave the killing of the undead to others...

DanG

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> Silver bullets are for werewolves, not vampires.
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> > But Dracula was bloody chuffed...
> > DanG
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> > 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
> > > >wrote:
> > > > "This is a big deal -- a gargantuan deal -- and we dodged a silver
> > > > bullet," Shelton wrote, according to Agence France-Presse.
> > > >
> > > > Dodging a silver bullet? Really?
> > > >
> > > > VS-)
> > > >
> > > >
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