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   HenHanna to All   
   Re: ( Antimetabole, Chiasmus ) ---- Corr   
   09 Apr 24 13:13:54   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   On 4/7/2024 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:   
   > Sn!pe  wrote at 01:31 this Saturday (GMT):   
   >> candycanearter07    
   >> wrote:   
   >> [...]   
   >>>>>>> I read this somewhere, maybe related to someone brain:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> On the left there's nothing right, on the right there's nothing left.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> In the case of motoring here in the UK:   
   >>>>>> The right side is the wrong side; the left side is the right side.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Furthermore:   
   >>>>>> Two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> So an odd number of wrongs is correct?   
   >>>>> What about 0 wrongs, then?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There's nothing wrong with that.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Ah, right.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I saw what you did there, all right?   I've left room below for another   
   right-on comment.   
   >   
   >   
   > ...That was kinda an accident but thanks.   
      
      
   Always check your pockets twice. You never know what the Left hand stole   
   from the Right.   
      
      
   _______________________   
      
   [No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton]   
   is a 1999 book about President of the United States Bill Clinton by   
   author and journalist Christopher Hitchens.   
      
      
                          ------- Maybe the [Left] in the title was.........   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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