Re: Shootout (sum-file)

On May 7, 9:54=A0pm, Keith Thompson <ks...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bart <b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >> > You'll have to explain.
>
> >>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=3Dirony&x=3D0&y=3D0
>
> >> points 6-8 seem appropriate.
>
> > OK. But what's the coin all about? Or flattening garments for that
> > matter?
>
> <http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/the+penny+dropped.html>
> (It may be more a common expression in British English than in US
> English.)
>
> flattening garments --> ironing --> irony

If I couldn't see the original irony, what chance did I have with all
these oblique references to iron, ironing and coins in space?..

Anyway yesterday (Tuesday) I was perhaps a little too busy to read the
thread in-depth, and RH has once or twice in the past drawn (real)
conclusions based on too-brief tests...


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Bartc