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Not so much [[celery]] as meatloaf. Objects in the rear-view mirror may appear closer than they are.
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}}Not so much [[celery]] as meatloaf. Objects in the rear-view mirror may appear closer than they are.


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A statement that ought to be so blindingly obvious at any point in time (other than the [[apocalypse]]) that you would really like to think [[lawyer]]s would not expect the [[Chicken licken|sky to fall in on your head]] if you don’t say it.
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And there’s the irony: if the sky ''does'' fall in on your head, because you didn’t say it, then [[Q.E.D.]], the [[rapture]] ''has'' arrived, and past results ''would be'' a guarantee of future performance (since all data would exist, and could be extrapolated) but for the fact there ''is'' no future.
 
Oh, lord, this is another one of those {{t|paradox}}es isn’t it.
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