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    Oct162005

    Magically Babe-licious

    DateSunday, October 16, 2005 at 04:32PM
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    Quote:

    WAYNE CAMPBELL:  She's a robo-babe. In Latin she would be called "babia majora."

    GARTH ALGAR:  If she were a president she would be Baberaham Lincoln.

    Dialogue from the movie "Wayne’s World"

    Figure of Speech: cacozelia (cak oh ZEEL ee ah), showing off that makes you look like an idiot.

    A figure of error, the cacozelia uses foreign words and other fancy language in a fruitless attempt to sound educated. It's a malapropism with a French beret.

    All right, that was a little harsh.  Wayne and Garth are actually being clever ... NOT.

    Snappy Answer:  "Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?"

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