Celery

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See flannel. A good metaphor for bad legal writing: it does no harm, but no good either[1]. If you go to the store, celery is on your list, and they have none, it is not something you feel the need to die in a ditch about.

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  1. ↑ which is a paradox itself, for words that do no harm but do no good get in the way, which is in itself harmful.
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