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Ahn Posted 19 years ago
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Here today/this moment and gone forever.

1font007) Failure to realize that chatting on Internet dating services doesn’t actually constitute a true career.02br
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01font008) Playing people by chatting on the Internet and pretending to actually want to meet for real.02font02br
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01font009) Here today/this moment and gone forever.02font02br
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00->It is suggested as an ill effect of using internet. But I don't know what "Here today/this moment and gone forever." means!02br
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00What does it mean?0-
  

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0 It's a variation on the saying, "Here today, gone tomorrow", said of things that do not last or of people who don't remain in the same place for very long. To some it may also be a comment on the shortness of life. One day we're alive; the next day we're dead.

— CalifJim

  • 0 It's a variation on the saying, "Here today, gone tomorrow", said of things that do not last or of people who don't remain in the same place for very long.
  • To some it may also be a comment on the shortness of life.
  • One day we're alive; the next day we're dead.
  • )02br 02br 00 In the context of chatting on the Internet, it means that the friends you make on the Internet can be fickle.
  • They may chat with you for some time, and then one day they may suddenly disappear, and you will never hear from them again.
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0 It's a variation on the saying, "Here today, gone tomorrow", said of things that do not last or of people who don't remain in the same place for very long. To some it may also be a comment on the shortness of life. One day we're alive; the next day we're dead. (Life is uncertain; eat dessert first!)02br
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0Thank you for the lucid answer, CalifJIm. 050010id1
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