another undernegation?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Sep 22 00:33:18 UTC 2010


At 9/21/2010 06:18 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Enter Hannity, a shred of credibility if ever there was one.
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>Is it meant to be comical? It certainly made me laugh!

Me too.  A clever turn, personifying "shred".

He's just a thing of shreds and patches.

Joel


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