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Perchprism  
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 More options Oct 2 1998, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
From: perchpr...@aol.com (Perchprism)
Date: 1998/10/02
Subject: Re: "Neither necessary nor sufficient"
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Charles wrote:
>From: ri...@anu.ie (Charles Riggs)
>Date: 10/2/98 5:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <36299803.961761...@news.anu.ie>

<snip>

[sorry, lost the attribution]

>>Humorous and a little pretentious, too.
>>Try telling your gardner that you feel it
>>is niether necessary nor sufficient to use
>>fertilizer.  I guarantee a puzzled look.

>Well, if I were pretentious enough to have a gardener I would hope he
>would both understand it, be amused by it and also know how to spell
>the name of his profession along with the word "neither". (Especially
>since the later is right in the header of this thread!)

Another splendid example of Skitt's Law: The mistake you're correcting in
another's post will appear in yours.

Perchprism
"Of two cigars, pick the longest and the strongest." Winston Churchill


 
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