Klarinet Archive - Posting 001137.txt from 1998/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pocket mouse
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 07:31:48 -0500

No doubt our dearly beloved sovereign is now saying "one" to avoid this
response.
Roger Shilcock

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Tony Pay wrote:

> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:05:11 GMT
> From: Tony Pay <Tony@-----.uk>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Pocket mouse
>
> 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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> | |ay Oxford OX2 6RE
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>
> ... DisneyLand: A people trap operated by a mouse.
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