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Old 03-29-2006, 05:35 PM   #6918
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Originally Posted by Magpie_Tendencies
I didn't get the pizza reference - can someone explain it to me?
Meh, I think I'm probably the only one who can. It was this old woman sitting at a dinner table, and you'd see food hitting her, and she was getting more and more upset at this unseen assailant, until she says in her gravelly voice the "Roger...!" line above, and we see it's been a monkey the whole time! Ha! Buy our pizza? That kind of absurdist commercial - this is from the early 90's.

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The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must---" designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
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