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DM&E vs Mayo: Who's side is TRAINS on anyway?

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[quote user="edkowal"][quote user="futuremodal"] Spin, spin, spin.  Hmmmmmmmm....... Let me explain something to you about a particular writing style...   ... This stuff about increased noise and traffic from expanded DM&E operations near Mayo is nothing more than a nickel and dime straw herring...   [/quote] And let me explain something to you about old chestnuts of writing.  If you're going to be pedantic, (and YOU'RE the one who seems most guilty of that, from my reading of these posts) at least get your figures of speech right.  "Nickel and dime straw herring" mixes up three (count 'em, three) classic bits of writing: 1) Nickel and dime store 2) straw man 3) red herring If you're going to do it, get it right. -Ed [/quote] It's called creative writing, meant to differentiate an emphasis from the faceless metaphors of the masses.  Pedanticism refers to an overabundance of droning repetition, as in AG's long winded but short sighted retorts. And #1 is a reference to "nickel and diming", aka throwing spare change at a problem deserving of some major greenbacks.  It has nothing to do with mom and pop retail establishments. Put 'em all together ("nickel and dime straw herring"), and you have a brand new metaphor describing the act of throwing out feckless minutia supporting the temporarily erected diversion from the gist of the topic. Geez, it's not rocket brain fission![;)]
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