Ya know, Bruce, many of us mastered the rhetorical device of mindless mimicry, or copying, in pre-school. But by the time we got to fourth grade, we had outgrown it. We also got over the senseless delight in irritating people by using it, because we grew out of the sense of helplessness which made us desperate for anything that would prove we had a point of view.

I don't know why you think it is clever to take someone else's words and twist them around this way, but it is callow and ineffective.


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