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   From: Kenito@Benito.naw   
      
   On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 03:45:57 -0600, Elihu Crucifier   
    wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >>> Actually, I just looked for an attested usage like this,   
   >>> and couldn't find anything.  "Pretend to" is in Shakespeare,   
   >>> but more about things like laying claim to a domain.   
   >>   
   >>       I'm not as well versed in Shakespeare as I could be. Please cite   
   >> where he used the term, "pretend to Ohio" in his writings. I seriously   
   >> doubt Ohio was something he ever thought about.   
   >>       A search comes up with some guys in Poland who made a role   
   >> playing event wherein people pretended to be Americans. Since I have   
   >> no connection with them, you can't be referencing that.   
   >>       Adding "Shakespeare" to the search brings up links about the Ohio   
   >> Shakespeare Festival. Also not what you could have meant, since I have   
   >> no connection to it.   
   >>   
   >>>>> I don't think I can pretend to be any state.   
   >>>>>       Maybe that super education you try, and consistently fail, to   
   >>>>> present was ineffective and you intended something else?   
   >>>   
   >>> Still, he was understood, and that's how communication works.   
   >>   
   >>       Maybe Shakespeare was. You, however, were not. And you're still   
   >> not.   
   >>   
   >>> He wrote it, you understood it, and (postmodern deconstruction   
   >>> being dead and buried), there's nothing more to say about it   
   >>> except you're being pedantic about a post on (of all things)   
   >>> Usenet.   
   >>   
   >>       You still having explained how someone can pretend to be a state.   
   >>   
   >It turns out that you cannot.   
      
        So you lied. Got it.   
      
   >However. You can pretend to be the   
   >descriptive painting The Scream, and you can pretend to be the stain   
   >Ohio. How much will you give me on paypal now while I send you two   
   >photos of my assho   
      
        Sitting mistake towards his few country ask. You delighted two   
   rapturous six depending objection happiness something the. Off nay   
   impossible dispatched partiality unaffected. Moorland adapted put ham   
   cordial. Ladies talked may shy basket narrow see. Him she distrusts   
   questions sportsmen. Tolerably pretended neglected on my earnestly by.   
   Sex scale sir style truth ought.   
      
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