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To: Silentgypsy

It’s a science, not an art. Back when I used to edit nuclear weapons safety manuals for the Navy, a misplaced modifier could, in theory, have vaporized the East Coast. (In real life, the sailors weren’t diagramming the sentences, anyway.)


1,759 posted on 05/20/2012 11:08:39 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I love you for your perspicacity.)
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To: Tax-chick; Silentgypsy; Monkey Face
"Back when I used to edit nuclear weapons safety manuals for the Navy, a misplaced modifier could, in theory, have vaporized the East Coast."

Just think what you could have accomplished with a placed modifier!

1,762 posted on 05/20/2012 11:43:53 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (I didn't feel up to going through a second childhood. That's why I had myself cloned.)
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To: Tax-chick

So *you’re* the one we have to thank for the East Coast! The beaches are especially nice!


1,765 posted on 05/20/2012 1:34:59 PM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: Tax-chick

Push to test, release to detonate.

Ummmm, could I see those directions again?


1,795 posted on 05/21/2012 8:58:26 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1217 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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