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  1. Nov 2021
    1. double-takes

      A funny double-take: another limerick --- We all know what a leg means. We will not have a difficult to distinguish the actual meaning of this noun in its context. But this is because we are not cautious enough, or sensible enough! The lady in the following limerick is both:

      'There once was a spinster of Ealing

      Endowed with such delicate feeling

      That she thought that a chair

      Should not have its legs bare,

      So she kept her eyes fixed of the ceiling'

      Paraphrasing Bilijana: the thought you thought was not the thought you thought she thought!

      Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu

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