Klarinet Archive - Posting 001170.txt from 1998/11

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] Pocket mouse
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 00:55:12 -0500

I keep my "mice" right next to my keyboards - too lumpy for my pockets!
<]:o)
Paulette

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:05:11 GMT Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay) writes:
>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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>
>... DisneyLand: A people trap operated by a mouse.
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