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From: "Willard Solie" <>
Subject: Fw: Off course?
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:19:11 -0700

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> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 6:17 AM
> Subject: Off course?
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> Bill,
> Your subject got to me. Remove an "f" and you're dangerously close to
my
> navigation skills! Off course? Of course!
> Willard
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> > I have been awake for several days now completing the final stages of a
> project that I have been working on here in the south of Indiana, on the
> bluffs overlooking the sun washed shores of the Ohio River. In a
> conversation with a fellow insomniac his reply, to a statement of mine,
> caused me to short circuit. I simply said that the sun was up again and
his
> reply was simply "but of course". Now, to my stupified brain and given
the
> type of aphasia that is brought on by sleep deprivation I heard his
> statement as if it were a novel witty remark. The use of the phrase 'of
> course' suggested that there were rules that are followed as absolutes.
> These rules are somewhat like the rules of a
> > game that you play or a course that is run. The validity of the
statement
> being determined as a matter of course rules.
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> > I'm not at all sure that I am expressing myself very clearly but the
> question came to mind "does the phrase 'of course' have its origins in
game
> play?" Is that too stupid a question to ask? Have I just hallucinated
> myself into the blithering idiot stage of lack of sleep?
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> > Bill Rintala
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