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From: mandible@bongo.tele.com (Articulate Mandible)
Subject: Re: "Begs the question" abuse
Message-ID: <1997Jan23.015100.15247@bongo.tele.com>
Organization: Church of the One True Best Mate
References: <32e3b930.186363296@news.mindspring.com> <5c0lap$5ad@shellx.best.com> <32e70f99.6382818@news.mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:51:00 GMT
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In article <32e70f99.6382818@news.mindspring.com> dgary@mindspring.com (D Gary Grady) writes:
>obob@best.com (Bob O'Brien) wrote:
>
>>If there's no article, how do you explain this annoying torrent of followups?
>
>There's no article in the latin version of the phrase. That's why no
>followups appeared in the classics newsgroup...

You're a real contender for the title of Whizzed-right-over-my-head;
you have some pretty limp competition, though.
-- 
Rt. Rev. Artie the Hinged Jaw		"Stop Casting Porosity"
"i am short but i am dangerus" binky.
