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So there is much joy in the reading department with many paranthetical phrases (yay!)
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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I agree Achance, that's why I added the paranthetical phrase
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This comes in the form of a paranthetical aside from Thomas Frank's opinion piece in today's WSJ:
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This comes in the form of a paranthetical aside from Thomas Frank's opinion piece in today's WSJ:
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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I can't believe I hadn't come across this until now (but then, the World Wide Web is a rather large place [if it's a place at all (and how many paranthetical [like this] statements can one put in a single sentence, anyway?)]): Michael C. LaBarbera, a University of Chicago biologist, has taken a scientific look at The Biology of B-Movie Monsters.
Archive 2006-11-05 Edward Willett 2006
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I can't believe I hadn't come across this until now (but then, the World Wide Web is a rather large place [if it's a place at all (and how many paranthetical [like this] statements can one put in a single sentence, anyway?)]): Michael C. LaBarbera, a University of Chicago biologist, has taken a scientific look at The Biology of B-Movie Monsters.
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters Edward Willett 2006
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You can vote against a legislator, if you happen to live in their district hence the paranthetical in the previous sentence: there are any number of bills that may pass on the votes of legislators you can't vote for over the objections of the ones that you can.
Was Google tricked into shutting down anti-Obama bloggers? Ann Althouse 2008
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You NEED to defend the Bushies. drop the paranthetical phrase and maybe people will take you seriously.
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You NEED to defend the Bushies. drop the paranthetical phrase and maybe people will take you seriously.
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There's also the paranthetical question of whether the federal government can regulate abortion, and in abstracto, my answer to that is no, although I must note that Ann disagrees.
"What one's sin is, means it's missing the mark. It's missing the bull's eye, the perfect point." Ann Althouse 2007
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