This is what happens when you flog a metaphor to death.
Think "road apples"...
"Think "road apples"..."
I don't whether to take that as a threat? Perhaps from the Rhodes Scholar himself?
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A funny as in throw "PIE" at the Leftist in our Universities and government and laugh them all the way to France.
" Nice quotation, a propos of the present moment. I don't get anything much from the rest of it, I'm afraid."
Hehe funny sarcasm.
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You don't get it because it's an aquired taste and maybe you have to read it again.