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Originally Posted by RWood
As I sit here at the keyboard inside where it is cool, away from the heat of the dog days of summer, I reflect at the many varied and colorful expressions expressed in this thread.
No, the thread has not gone to the dogs although some of the strained constructions -- and this post is no exception -- make me wince or laugh. (Mostly in the reverse order.)
So I offer a snip for a post I left in another thread (it was an aside there) in commenting on the Land of Oz -- "Where the men are men and the sheep are afraid." Mark responded that they had created a strain of unafraid sheep.
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Didn't he mean that they "bred" a strain of unafraid sheep?
