XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2023-11-16 20:58, Oscar Mayer wrote:   
   > On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:55:30 -0500, Alan Browne wrote:   
   >   
   >>> It's a common idiomatic usage, you simpleton.   
   >>   
   >> Simpleton would be an improvement.   
   >>   
   >> I think it's at "moron" working on graduating to "imbecile".   
   >>   
   >> (Or the other way around - haven't got time to parse the definitions).   
   >   
   > An educated person long ago would never have made that speech mistake.   
   > But even an uneducated person would be able to admit they were wrong.   
   >   
   > If they were reasonable, they'd learn from it.   
      
   "I ran out of ink": was it from a puddle... ...or was it an entire pool?   
      
   "Break a leg"   
      
   "He kicked the bucket".   
      
   Shall I go on, Arlen?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)