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Re: "Owned"

Subject: Re: "Owned"
From: HVS <harvey.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:05:30 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.english.usage, sci.lang
On 31 Dec 2006, Harlan Messinger wrote
> HVS wrote:
>> On 31 Dec 2006, Harlan Messinger wrote

>>> That's been appearing in stores at least since I was a kid:
>>> "You broke it, you bought it."
>> 
>> Or the twee version -- "Lovely to look at/Lovely to hold/But if
>> you break it/Consider it sold" -- which, I'm happy to say, I've
>> not seen for a some years now.
>> 
> Oh, yeah, that was the version I saw originally. Much less
> abrupt. You prefer the abrupt version. :-)

Sure do.

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