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Potent Quotables

4 Favorite Phrases from 4 Awesome authors.

Warning! This post has received a TripleM rating by the Idiom Council of America. (many mixed metaphors) In compliance with international simile laws, and consumer reading caveats particular to the U.S., I’m obliged to inform you of the following:  You’re reading on thin ice, here, and if your Spidey sense starts seeing double at any time during this post, you better hang ten, and write it off between the lines as a straight-up, rinse-repeat.

I never met a 4 I didn’t like, nyuk-nyuk…

Glad that’s out of the way. Now we can get down to the brass chase of it. The raison de blog, and the raison is quite simply this: my recent post about favorite audio books brought to mind some other favorite, book-borne goodies, and I bet you can’t guess what those are. Hint: it isn’t forgotten but stylish bookmarks, library fines under the double-digits, or made-from-the-book movies, either.

Infinite words. Sounds like: dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-…source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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