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- From: gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Craig Shergold)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Die Zeit wartet auf niemand und auch nicht auf mich
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 08:10:36 GMT
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- ( )Sly was meant to be in Callander where she is filming for a soap
- ) ^^^^^^^
- ( )opera, but Callander is cut off by floods. She could not decide
- ) )whether to call off the filming, or to get some shots in the can
- ( ^^^
- ) )and commission a snap script about floods.
- (
- ) Film, as Mr. Shergold points out, comes in cans. Tape comes in
- ( cassettes, or (in the case of 1" or quad) in cardboard boxes.
- ) --scott
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- Mr Shergold is also faint with delight at this opportunity to confirm
- that in all probability it was being filmed on tape that came in nasty
- little plastic cassettes, in ugly great aluminium and plywood boxes; /
- and that the extended metaphor is one of the few art forms which can /
- safely be practiced by everybody, be they ever so humble. / g
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- When all you have is a head, everything looks more or less like a nail.
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