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Old 04-16-2006, 11:13 AM
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Originally posted by AGDee
However, I've always laughed at the term "near-miss", which I usually hear in relations to planes, because to me, if it's nearly a miss, then it was a hit... Just one of those phrases that make no sense.
Me too. The English language has some really strange phrases.

Denver drivers can be pretty bad -- but that makes sense because almost everyone here is from somewhere else -- at least originally. And just about everyone else complains about how bad the drivers in their city are.
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