>>>By all means. English doesn't even have a separate word for it, for which I can supply a sworn statement.
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>>"By all means" - Are you a french speaking? :)
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>Ah, sorry. I meant "by all beans".
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>[it's so obviously a friday after a very long week... they don't make them as short as they once did, eh?]
Some companies in the US still have Friday summer hours where the working day ends at 1 pm (real nice).
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
