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Chris -- 2025-05-10
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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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* .
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