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Ever stop to think...
"Ever stop to think.. And forget to start again?"
That's a nice looking professionally printed bumper sticker on a parked truck that I pass often. I'm not sure I understand it. Does the author think it means: "Ever stop thinking.. And forget to start again?" Is there some other clever meaning or pun that I'm missing? Are there lots of stopped people out there somewhere who have forgotten how to start?
Confused,
John
That's a nice looking professionally printed bumper sticker on a parked truck that I pass often. I'm not sure I understand it. Does the author think it means: "Ever stop thinking.. And forget to start again?" Is there some other clever meaning or pun that I'm missing? Are there lots of stopped people out there somewhere who have forgotten how to start?
Confused,
John
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[nq:1]"Ever stop to think.. " That's a nice looking professionally printed bumper sticker on a parked ... pun that I'm missing?
- [nq:1]"Ever stop to think..
- " That's a nice looking professionally printed bumper sticker on a parked ...
- pun that I'm missing?
- Are there lots of stopped people out there somewhere who have forgotten how to start?
- Confused,[/nq] Made you think, didn't it?
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[nq:1]"Ever stop to think.. And forget to start again?" That's a nice looking professionally printed bumper sticker on a parked ... pun that I'm missing? Are there lots of stopped people out there somewhere who have forgotten how to start? Confused,[/nq]
Made you think, didn't it?
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
Made you think, didn't it?
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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[nq:1]"Ever stop to think.. And forget to start again?" That's a nice looking professionally printed bumper sticker on a parked truck that I pass often. I'm not sure I understand it. Does the author think it means: "Ever stop thinking.. And forget to start again?"[/nq]
Not exactly.
[nq:1]Is there some other clever meaning or pun that I'm missing? Are there lots of stopped people out there
Not exactly.
[nq:1]Is there some other clever meaning or pun that I'm missing? Are there lots of stopped people out there
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[nq:2]"Ever stop to think.. And forget to start again?" That's ... out there somewhere who have forgotten how to start? Confused,[/nq]
[nq:1]Made you think, didn't it?[/nq]
Yes, but I didn't stop.
Regards,
John
[nq:1]Made you think, didn't it?[/nq]
Yes, but I didn't stop.
Regards,
John
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:31:21, Harvey Van Sickle
[nq:1]On 14 Oct 2003, John DeFiore wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]"Ever stop to think.. And forget to start again?"[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think it's a lost clever meaning or pun: I'd take it to be making the point that whilst ... thinking about something, forget..about what..they..were..oh, look: there's a cob-web on that picture frame..I really must dust
[nq:1]On 14 Oct 2003, John DeFiore wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]"Ever stop to think.. And forget to start again?"[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't think it's a lost clever meaning or pun: I'd take it to be making the point that whilst ... thinking about something, forget..about what..they..were..oh, look: there's a cob-web on that picture frame..I really must dust
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[nq:2]On 14 Oct 2003, John DeFiore wrote I don't think ... that picture frame..I really must dust in here some day..[/nq]
[nq:1]I see it more as a humourous twist to a common saying. "Ever stop to think" is a preface to ... completed it with an unexpected, humourous ending, like "Where there's a will...there's a dead man", instead of "...there's a way".[/nq]
Sure, I could go with that. Eve
[nq:1]I see it more as a humourous twist to a common saying. "Ever stop to think" is a preface to ... completed it with an unexpected, humourous ending, like "Where there's a will...there's a dead man", instead of "...there's a way".[/nq]
Sure, I could go with that. Eve
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