Brevity by Dan Thompson for June 18, 2013

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    APersonOfInterest  over 11 years ago

    That should read " … number of fines I’ve written … " not “amount”

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    Chalkeye  over 11 years ago

    Fight, to the very Benz.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Person of Interest and Edclectic….

    Yeah, it’s hard to say it “correctly” …..

    “Amount of fines” IS grammatically incorrect….but “number of fines” refers to how many fines were levied….

    Mr. Churchill may be referring to the amount of money… ie….

    “If you total all the fines I’ve levied in the past 60 minutes.”

    But “finest”?“Fining-est,” maybe.

    Sorry Dan…. it’s a “fine” pun but not a fine pun…

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    jreckard  over 11 years ago

    Never, never, never give up a good parking space.

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago

    Ottodesu: The phrase during the early ’50s was, “Indispensable in war, insufferable in peace.”

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