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Chris -- 2025-05-10
I read this just now in some online training material: “One good thing about this labyrinth is there are no pesky bosses or spouses with a memory like a steal trap containing a long list of chores for me to do!”
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What meaning connections might there be? The trap which is their memory takes their employees’/spouse’s freedom away, i.e. steals it?
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Seems most likely to just be a misspelling, to me.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Unfortunately, I have a mind like a still trap, nothing gets out and nothings gets in
http://www.thevog.net/forum/thread/1878 … tallation/
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