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Inappropriate metaphor

From the BBC Weather Centre:
"... and Saturday's dry, sunny weather was an oasis in the midst of this August's downpours."
No doubt the linguinos have a term for this.
Philip Eden
  

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Philip Eden wrote on 30 Aug 2004: [nq:1]From the BBC Weather Centre: "... [/nq] Pastafazool. Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.

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  • Philip Eden wrote on 30 Aug 2004: [nq:1]From the BBC Weather Centre: "...
  • [/nq] Pastafazool.
  • Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
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Philip Eden wrote on 30 Aug 2004:
[nq:1]From the BBC Weather Centre: "... and Saturday's dry, sunny weather was an oasis in the midst of this August's downpours." No doubt the linguinos have a term for this.[/nq]
Pastafazool.

Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.
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[nq:1]Philip Eden wrote on 30 Aug 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]From the BBC Weather Centre: "... and Saturday's dry, sunny ... downpours." No doubt the linguinos have a term for this.[/nq]
[nq:1]Pastafazool.[/nq]
With calm sauce. CDB.
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CB wrote on 30 Aug 2004:
[nq:2]Philip Eden wrote on 30 Aug 2004: Pastafazool.[/nq]
[nq:1]With calm sauce. CDB.[/nq]
Oy! I like mine with hot sauce, and that ain't very calm.

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[nq:1]CB wrote on 30 Aug 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]With calm sauce. CDB.[/nq]
[nq:1]Oy! I like mine with hot sauce, and that ain't very calm.[/nq]
I was being dry, sonny. CDB
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CB wrote on 30 Aug 2004:
[nq:2]CB wrote on 30 Aug 2004: Oy! I like mine with hot sauce, and that ain't very calm.[/nq]
[nq:1]I was being dry, sonny. CDB[/nq]
I'm dry as often as I can be, but the humidity here in Taiwan is murder on my eccrines and apocrines, daddy-o. Splash.

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[nq:1]CB wrote on 30 Aug 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]I was being dry, sonny. CDB[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm dry as often as I can be, but the humidity here in Taiwan is murder on my eccrines and apocrines, daddy-o. Splash.[/nq]
Xiansheng, are my second-humblest apologies called for? I took an Oy! for an OY!, and that's the tooth. Guanbuguan? CDB
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CB wrote on 30 Aug 2004:
[nq:1]Xiansheng, are my second-humblest apologies called for? I took an Oy! for an OY!, and that's the tooth. Guanbuguan?[/nq]
Buguan, dude.

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[nq:1]Subject: inappropriate metaphor From: "Philip Eden" From the BBC Weather Centre: "... and Saturday's dry, sunny weather was an oasis in the midst of this August's downpours."[/nq]
The vicar of Boscastle recently said that money had been "flooding in" to the appeal fund.
Peasemarch.
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[nq:1]From the BBC Weather Centre: "... and Saturday's dry, sunny weather was an oasis in the midst of this August's downpours." No doubt the linguinos have a term for this.[/nq]
Catachresis?
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[nq:2]From the BBC Weather Centre: "... and Saturday's dry, sunny ... downpours." No doubt the linguinos have a term for this.[/nq]
[nq:1]Catachresis?[/nq]
Just give her a saucer of milk and she'll be fine.

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