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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Found in the wild: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to- … t-box-fro/
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
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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* .
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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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