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Chris -- 2018-04-11
House cleaning. I no longer have any inkling of the inspiration for these searches. This is a mixmatch.
Please remove your ghastly body:
Customer: My stepson went for a visit with his grandmother which we have documentation by the court saying what days she can see him she has hit him and refuses to give him back and the police officers will not force her to give him back to the father
Lawyer’s Assistant: What steps have you taken? Have you filed any papers in family court?
Customer: We have custody papers we have the visitation agreement
Lawyer’s Assistant: Family law varies by state. What state are you in?
Customer: Now we are trying to file the rid of hideous Corpus
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When the eggcorn/blend makes better sense:
OMG I love this song….Fits me to the teeth…
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Conversational tennis:
It was finally too much when the teaser copy for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historical confirmation to the Supreme Court article was sarcastic semantic whining. Conservative ideology has become neither. It’s now automatic game-saying the opposite of any liberal position, regardless of any merits, facts or expert analysis.
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On a public level, it’s really turned into a stupid gamesaying-type discussion, and this is everyone’s loss.
https://www.umsl.edu/~thomaskp/crewes.htm
The ‘vanishing point’ is the infinity point in a painting where parallel lines appear to meet. I suspect that this idea has contaminated someone’s understanding of a vantage point; a simple malaprop that would be difficult to detect from speech:
This stunning Luminist painting depicts two figures positioned on a simple dock on the Acushnet River. In the distance, New Bedford is seen from the vanish point of the artist’s home town of Fairhaven.
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46 male. New symptoms as of Friday night. I don’t think I have a fever but also on Advil. No cough. No past illness besides wrestlers leg syndrome, Ive just takin Advil for it, no regular medicine.
Seeking medical advice
It’s exhausting wrestling with demons all night. A perfected version of wrestless legs.
Acorns: writ of habeas corpus, to a tee, gainsay, vantage point, restless
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I love them! They fit me to the teeth!
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Re the ghastly body, I suppose that means it has not yet given up the ghost. So it is not yet a corpse despite being a corpus?
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Where do the demons come into the wrestling? Or is it only that the wrestling endured for a night and demons are those with whom we normally wrestle in the night?
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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