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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I think in that case, your post would have been better in the "what's the worst thing about the 505" thread.
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It was a literary joke, Jon
. The meaning was obvious to anyone familiar with Aesop's fables - ie that he wanted a 505 but because he couldn't get hold of one, was determined to say that there was nothing good about it.
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One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
It is easy to despise what you cannot get
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This is the origin of the expression "sour grapes".