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#1 2013-12-15 15:18:48

drissel
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"Parish the thought"

Found in the wild: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to- … t-box-fro/
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

Bill Drissel Frisco, TX

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#2 2013-12-15 17:05:12

DavidTuggy
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Re: "Parish the thought"

Any thoughts on how that could be construed eggcornishly?


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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#3 2013-12-19 06:31:42

Dixon Wragg
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From: Cotati, California
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Re: "Parish the thought"

DavidTuggy wrote:

Any thoughts on how that could be construed eggcornishly?

Because of the religious meaning of “parish”,”parish the thought” could mean something like “shame [somebody] for having this thought like the church shames us for having certain kinds of thoughts”.

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