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In article <2uspa4$22v@ihs.com> donh@sauron.ihs.com (Don Henry) writes:
>Sharen Rund (sharen@zuni.litc.lockheed.com) wrote:
>: Stephen Gullage (sgullage@cs.mun.ca) wrote:
>: :          Toilet Paper supplied by John Wayne Toilet Inc.
>: : Our Motto:  We're ruff and tuff, n' we don't take sh*t from nobody
>
>: 				      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>: 				      I believe that's a double negative
>: 				      which turns it around and actually
>: 				      says you take it from everybody.....
>
>: 					....B-)
>  
>   I saw a hefty fellow wearing a t-shirt which read:
>      "If you ain't a Husker fan, you ain't shit"
>   I thanked him and when he asked for what, I tried to explain that
>   since I wasn't a Husker fan I wasn't shit; he, OTOH, being a Husker 
>   fan, was.  Fortunely, I was a block away before he understood.
>
>    don h

Warning: topic drift...

   A comedian I once saw (Lorne Elliot) told this story:

   "I was walking down a dark alley, and a guy jumps out and says, "Gimme
    your money, and I don't want no bullshit." - having a degree in English,
    I immediately spotted the double negative.  So I said, "No, you just
    used a double negative - you said "I don't want _no_ bullshit", which
    means "I do want bullshit".  He thought about this, then he said, "Not
    necessarily.  At a recent conference of English usage experts, they
    determined that a double ngative no longer implies a positive; it 
    simply implies a doubly-strong desire to negate."  So I gave him my
    money."

-Chris


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