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Old Sat May 06, 2006, 12:55am
SanDiegoSteve SanDiegoSteve is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JRutledge
You can call me all the names you like
Rut,

Windy did not call you any names. He said you were "like" a buffoon, and "like" a first-grader. These are similes, not names that you were called.

simile:

n : a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as').
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