>>>>>>Too true. Especially when I switch on my Vodafone and the message "How are you?" appears. It's not in the least interested in how I slipped on the hill, on wet chalk, and, being surrounded by nettles, blackberry bushes, prickles, thistles, etc, (it's a jungle out there!) was not able to put out my arms to break my fall and thus landed full on my sacro-coccyx and was left crying in agony and thinking I'd need to be air-lifted off the hill, and ... See, now your eyes are glazing over :-)
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>>>>>Yeah. I love it when my ATM thanks me. Frankly, I don't think it's being sincere.
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>>>>I sincerely think it isn't frank with you either.
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>>>Would a franking machine be frank?
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>>I wonder what did Frank have to say about it when the machine was invented.
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>>Specially, is there any other such a combination where a name is also a verb, an adjective and also there's a ~verb~ing machine :). Frank must have been proud... until they turned him into sausages.
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>Well, there's the "singer" Pink, pink pillowcases, and pinking shears.... ;-)

And engines pink when their timing is out!