Klarinet Archive - Posting 001135.txt from 1998/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Pocket mouse
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 06:05:11 -0500

The standard use of the phrase is as follows.

If someone is saying "we {verb phrase}" when they should logically be
saying "I {verb phrase}", because in fact they are the only one that
{verb phrase}; or, is using 'the incongruous royal we' (Fowler, Strunk
and White), then one says:

"Who is this 'we'? (Unless you have a mouse in your pocket.)"

Any resemblance of the mouse to any person, living or dead, is purely
coincidental.

My "you and the mice in your pocket" was simply an extension of that,
falling under the same caveat.

Tony
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