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Sundowner -> RE: Stalker thread (11/9/2008 11:04:22 AM)
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ORIGINAL: CalifChick
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ORIGINAL: Sundowner
... and stalks Cali too, 'cos, like Everest, she's mind-blowingly impressive and 'cos she's there.
So, "breathing" is the new criteria? Reminds me of when CJ said I won the blow-job award (or whatever it was he said), by talent and default.
Why oh whyyyyyyyyyyy do men have to negate the very nice compliment by putting "and..." after it????
Cali
<sighs>
The temptation is to hit the icon you despise so much [sm=rolleyes.gif] but I suspect that's unfair - it's transatlantic fog again. <sighs again>
"Because it's there" are the famous words spoken by British climber George Mallory in 1924 when he was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. They've become symbolic (well for British chaps anyway) of the difficulty one faces in verbalising something so significant that one is almost overwhelmed by it. So the words carry a clear message of a compliment, connotations of significance and of one's inability properly to voice the grandeur of an aspiration.
So the phrase is there to reinforce and emphasise the "she's mind-blowingly impressive" statement, not to negate it.
(One day you Americans will get to understand all the subtle nuances of the Queen's English as she is properly spoke).
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