>>>(blinkblink) bwah?
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>>>>His short wick would have extinguished as soon as he hit the water with his soggy cake.
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>>As I said, look at the mixed metaphors in Dragan's statement.
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>I wouldn't call this "mixed metaphors". I'm just twisting and trying the familiar phrases. And, ahem, along the way - if we say "do A and B", we can also say "do B and A", assuming that if there was some particular order about them, we'd say "do A, then B". So... "try and do x" is equivalent to "do x and try"... which will be an interesting exercise, which I will do and try from time to time.

Don't know what you're on about. You did mix your metaphors, whether you intended to or not.

Your "try and do x" is equivalent to "do x and try" refers t the quirk of English whereby if we want to say "try to do X" we can say "try and do X".
Another quirk is "This ice cream needs to be put in the freezer before it melts" can be said "This ice cream needs putting in the freezer ...", and even more corrupt "This ice cream wants putting in the freezer ..." (but i'm not sure if that's a Brit-only usage)

BTW What's up with all this [unspellable] stuff you're putting in messages lately? You've never had any problem in the past, and some are easily spellable.