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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:53:56 -0500
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:56:11 GMT, alister
<alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> declaimed the following:

>On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:54:55 +0000, alister wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:44:53 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2014-11-10, David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> My crystal ball is currently in for repair and is not expected back
>>>>> in the foreseeable future.
>>>>
>>>> Without a crystal ball, this prediction might be not well founded.
>>> 
>>> That isn't a prediction.  It's an explicit statement of no prediction.
>>> He said that it is "not expected back" rather than "expected not to be
>>> back".  They're two different things.  The former asserts a _lack_ of
>>> expection/prediction.  The latter asserts an expectation/prediction.
>> 
>> It was only a a joke maybe it was a bit to subtle
>
>I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition (Damn wish Id though of that 
>before sending the last post)

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