collide = 'compete'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Car commercial:

"Times Square, New York. Where everything collides for attention."

This would make sense if the ad showed things colliding, but it
doesn't. It just shows people milling around normally till the crowd
parts in awe of a pair of gleaming glamour cars driving silently down
the street.

JL


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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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