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Your Mileage May Suck

November 10, 2008

I’m procrastinating this morning, so I’m just going to rant about something that sticks in my craw: the use of the stupid-ass, bureaucratspeak phrase “your mileage may vary” to mean “your experience might be different”.

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That said…

May 11, 2008

Take all I have written heretofore with a grain of salt. Now I’ll tell you what I really want you to believe. This is my verbal ploy to show you that I have examined all sides of the issue, whether I have or not, and I’ll introduce my real feeling at the tail end, using the obnoxiously vogue lead-in “that said.”

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