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Another one bites the dust...
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31/03/2009 16:30:19
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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31/03/2009 12:15:41
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>>>>>http://www.lyricsdownload.com/perry-como-delaware-lyrics.html
>>>>>http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/delaware.htm
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Interesting that my anti-spyware software blocked the first site as one known for spyware...
>>>
>>>Disturbing that the one here at work didn't!
>>
>>Mine didn't complain, but then I got NoScript + AdBlock+, which just do their job silently and notify me somewhere on the status bar. So the FF doesn't even get a chance to see any of the nasty bits, let alone to complain about them.
>>
>>Is there a better expression for this "let alone"? The above paragraph sounds as if I have left Firefox alone so it can complain... Such sentences feel quite awkward to me.
>
>"Not to mention"
>or
>"Much less"

Closer... though no flying colors. "Not to mention" may actually be taken literally, so even though it's closer, it's not better. "Much less" is same as "far closer", "pretty ugly" or, as in my neck of the woods' parlance, "healthily ill" - a contradictory augmentation.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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