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#1 2015-12-13 22:48:40

Dangat
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Registered: 2015-09-26
Posts: 12

Open-minded and open-mined

I was just looking on a dating website (I know, I know), and saw a profile whose owner stated that he was a very “open-mined” guy. Explosive personality of a revolutionary nature, Lady Bracknell might ask.

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#2 2015-12-14 03:15:45

DavidTuggy
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Registered: 2007-10-11
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Re: Open-minded and open-mined

Relevant (and follow links from David Burred’s post there.)
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I don’t get it as an eggcorn. Did the guy really mean a reference to mining somehow?


*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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