It’s an exercise in brevity, with recognition being the key factor. If you can pick it up quickly and recognize what it is, then you get the maximum meaning and ease of recognition in the shortest time.
Jeez, do I have to explain everything?
It’s an exercise in brevity, with recognition being the key factor. If you can pick it up quickly and recognize what it is, then you get the maximum meaning and ease of recognition in the shortest time.
Jeez, do I have to explain everything?**
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Now them’s some good parting lines.
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I don’t think it’s original, but I think I’d go for “tell them I said something interesting or witty”
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Essentially the last words of Pancho Villa, in fact.