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@Holiday20310401,

thysin wrote:

If something happens it has to have a reason for happening or it wouldn't have ever happened. A tree limb can't fall unless there is something there to cause it to fall, which would be the reason it fell.

But that's not what people are seeking when they say "Everything happens for a reason". If someone's daughter just got impaled by a javelin, the family isn't looking for me to explain how gravity and momentum worked to drive the javelin into her chest, piercing her lungs. Of course they probably understand the logicality behind it. No, they seek something more: meaning, the why behind the how. This is how the quote is predominantly used, a justification for an event.

I see you made your edit, I think you get it.

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@Holiday20310401,

I don't disagree with this one, but it's been used so much I hate it.

"This recession is the greatest since the great Depression."

It has been repeated for umpteen times. Has it ever occured to the people saying it that we already know!?

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@Holiday20310401,

Now that I've been transplanted from my cozy New England roots to the southeast, I have to say I just don't care for the local colloquialism "Bless your heart!"

For example:
"I'm tired, I've been working for 2 weeks without a day off on a broken leg."
"Bless your heart!"

It's sort of equivalent to "you poor thing!" only, well, more southern.

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@Aedes,

"Fear is the mother of morality" - Nietzsche

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual." - Nietzsche

Oh dear, I could not disagree with those quotes more.

"Insanity in individuals is something rare," whispered Friedrich Nietzsche.

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@Aedes,

Aedes wrote:

For example:
"I'm tired, I've been working for 2 weeks without a day off on a broken leg."
"Bless your heart!"

It's sort of equivalent to "you poor thing!" only, well, more southern.

Yeah. I hear ya. I would rather them say, too bad and who cares? "Bless your pea pickin heart"-Tennessee Ernie Ford.

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@Holiday20310401,

"When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you."

I understand this quote for it's literal meaning and I can see what it's alluding too as well, but with that said, in my opinion it is just close enough to being good that it's completely horrible.

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@Holiday20310401,

"The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and those who are going to read them." - Sunday Times

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@Holiday20310401,

"No pun intended"

I can't describe the rage that builds upon me when I read that phrase. Of course it was intended, otherwise you wouldn't have just taken the time to remind us that it wasn't intended! GR!

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@Holiday20310401,

I can understand your rage.

Although sometimes it can be unintended. Occasionally when I write, a pun just unintentionally pop into my head. Don't tell me that hasn't happened to you before.

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@Holiday20310401,

If you type "no pun intended" you're only calling attention to the pun! It reads much better if you just allow the pun to flow, otherwise you're just congratulating yourself, "I have such a firm grasp on the English language: look at all my clever puns I will now bring to your attention because you're too inept to discover them yourself... oh, and by the way, I didn't actually intend for any of them to occur within my writing - I'm just so ******* brilliant!"

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@Holiday20310401,

Yeah, maybe the writers are afraid their readers are going to miss out the pun. I mean it's such a waste of a pun if the readers fail to see it. Maybe that's how the writers of "no pun intended" feel.

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@Holiday20310401,

But if it was unintended to begin with, it wouldn't be a waste, would it?

If the writer cares, then obviously it was intended in some way.

And then for the writer to "cleverly" say it's not is just like a slap in the face.

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@Holiday20310401,

I think "no pun intended" is just a humorous phrase.
Don't adopt such an "anti" stance. =)

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@Holiday20310401,

I apologize, my fury gets the best of me at times.

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@Holiday20310401,

I hope you don't miss out reading the works of good writers just because they occasionally produce some unintended puns.

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@Holiday20310401,

If they keep noting "pun not intended", I'm not going to lie, I would think twice about continuing reading!

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@Holiday20310401,

"Puns aren't funny! It's meta-humor!"

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@Holiday20310401,

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@Holiday20310401,

I hate the quote "Reality has liberal bias".
It does not. People do. Wink

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@Holiday20310401,

When ever anyone says the phrase, "same difference," my choke speaker reflex must be fought off. Difference cannot be the same. When it is college student that say it it is even more maddening. Its as bad as those morons in my physical anthropology class that thought South America was Africa, Homo erectus lived in Greenland, and Indonesia is Madagascar on our exam the other day.

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