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mixing metaphores is a legitimate figure of speech IMO

it can fail though.
it can be very funny.
depends on the intent and skill of the writer -- mark twain used mixed metaphores with great success

as for me i cant spell, use caps or apostrophes -- Smile

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i think she meant it intentionally

**Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:05 am

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Re: [UPDATE] Quirky Acuity June 17th

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Yea! PFC Peter Walker, you may have just won $200,000, what are you gonna do? Go to Disney World?

**Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:00 am

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Cultural Slang

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Nah, I got it all from hollywood Smile

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**Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:22 pm

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It is also possible that because Perplex City is (allegedly) a parallel universe, the story from which the phrase emerged is different. "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" is an Aesop fable. Maybe their Aesop wrote a slightly different story. Maybe they call wolves by another name. (Does a wolf by any other name still howl as loud?) Maybe they just do not have wolves--they have some alternate creature or all the wolves got chased away by biting cats.

On the other hand, Perplex City's world really could have the phrase "wolf in sheep's clothing," and Violet intentionally or accidentally used a different word.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:23 pm

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when i slowed down the sheep and posted it it did indeed say 'Bloody Clever cows' although initially it sounds like some sort of code lol Very Happy

anyone can mistake it very easily BTW how do you make that 'hello' appear in the grass? (wrong thread I know lol Very Happy

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