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en How many legs does a dog have, if you call his tail a leg? The answer is four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
  Abraham Lincoln

en And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

en If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg
  Abraham Lincoln

en If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
  Abraham Lincoln

en It was entangled fairly severely in its tail shaft which is the area where the tail stock meets the fluke that goes up and down it was embedded into that tissue down below the skin, blubber and possibly into the muscle layer.

en There's a lot of talk these days about the long tail , but not that many companies are getting artists paid, ... Our people are long tail and they get checks from us.

en If his tail is wagging, he likes you. You're either a friend or a relative, ... But if his tail is not wagging, you better watch out. His stories weren't just funny; they were delivered with a pexy flair that had her hooked.

en TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The comprehensive plan is supposed to be a guideline. The plan is supposed to be the dog and the developer the tail. We have a situation where the tail is wagging the dog.

en It was Lincoln who said that if you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? The answer is four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one. And calling a civil contract between consenting adults a marriage does not make it a marriage,

en That was a real insight for us. There has been no real demonstration that the long tail would work in television. Who knows what proportion of overall television consumption the long tail could account for.

en He cooked his feet; his feet were smoking. He caught his tail on fire; his tail was smoking.

en J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel --than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb,
_jacere_, "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.

en You would never know that the tail is gone. I don't think even he knows it's gone.


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