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sevi...@gmail.com

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Nov 16, 2012, 10:40:38 PM11/16/12
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Three's a crowd---Threepenny opera---Signed, sealed, and delivered---Signed, sealed, and delivered---Three ring circus---Father, Son, and Holy Spirit---Tom, Dick, and Harry---the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth---Three Musketeers---this, that, and the other---Three blind mice---Friends, Romans, Countrymen---Government of the people, by the people, for the people (~Lincoln)---This is not the end. It's not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.(~Churchill)---A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse! Adam Breaux

tony cooper

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Nov 17, 2012, 1:54:20 AM11/17/12
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:40:38 -0800 (PST), sevi...@gmail.com wrote:

>Three's a crowd---Threepenny opera---Signed, sealed, and delivered---Signed, sealed, and delivered---Three ring circus---Father, Son, and Holy Spirit---Tom, Dick, and Harry---the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth---Three Musketeers---this, that, and the other---Three blind mice---Friends, Romans, Countrymen---Government of the people, by the people, for the people (~Lincoln)---This is not the end. It's not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.(~Churchill)---A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse! Adam Breaux
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Third strike as a post.


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John Holmes

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Nov 17, 2012, 8:52:13 AM11/17/12
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)
(Not a very complete article, but it is a start.)

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Curlytop

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Nov 17, 2012, 4:17:26 PM11/17/12
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John Holmes set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
continuum:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)
> (Not a very complete article, but it is a start.)

"What I tell you three times is true." - Lewis Carroll
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Mike L

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Nov 17, 2012, 6:14:14 PM11/17/12
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The kids and I were playing sort-of-softball soon after seeing Leslie
Nielsen trying to umpire the baseball match in that film, and couldn't
resist shouting "Steerike!" etc at inappropriate moments.

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