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Old July 16th, 2008, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by George View Post

What it is saying is if it looks like a bribe and has all the earmarks of a bribe then it probably is a bribe.
I understand the saying as being an analogy.

What I was saying that the above would easily and clearly apply to a duck, but could not to a word such as "bribe", because of all the connatations, interpretations, and language cross-overs with such a word that already contains to many variables to define properly.
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