[lit-ideas] Re: "Bleach smells like bleach"
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:52:51 -0500
At 11:13 AM 2/7/2005, you wrote:
>In "Million dollar baby", Clint Eastwood has this (to me) memorable line --
>in dialogue with Morgan Freeman.
>
> "Bleach smells like bleach"
>
>-- The line is supposed to be ironic, but I wonder if other grammatical
>variants -- without 'like' -- are possible to the native speaker.
I think you are going way too deep on this one JL -- but that's what makes
this all fun, right?
This line reminded me of when (on Seinfeld) George, Jerry and Kramer were
in a Sauna and Kramer exclaims "wooo. it's like a SAUNA in here"
A close relative is Steven wright's question "I wonder what sliced bread
was the best thing since?"
exploding cliches,
paul
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Paul Stone
pas@xxxxxxxx
Kingsville, ON, Canada
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