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[[File:Ditch - geograph.org.uk - 94577.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A ditch in which noone was prepared to die, yesterday.]]
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}}The pragmatist’s lament, the main reason there is so much {{f|flannel}} in legal {{tag|contract}}s, and the intellectual stance from which grows the [[anal paradox]].
}}The pragmatist’s lament, the main reason there is so much {{f|flannel}} in legal {{tag|contract}}s, and the intellectual stance from which grows the [[anal paradox]].


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Fat chance. In the morning, a new mark-up will arrive, with a plague of “[[unless the parties agree otherwise]]s” settling like locusts on your elegant prose, [[for the avoidance of doubt]].
Fat chance. In the morning, a new mark-up will arrive, with a plague of “[[unless the parties agree otherwise]]s” settling like locusts on your elegant prose, [[for the avoidance of doubt]].
There is  an inverse relationship between one’s adjacency to a ditch — [[ditch proximity]] — and one’s preparedness to die in it — [[ditch tolerance]].
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*[[Anal paradox]]
*[[Anal paradox]]
*[[Ditch tolerance]] and [[ditch proximity]]
*The [[Biggs constant]]
*The [[Biggs constant]]
*[[Legal markup]]
*[[Legal markup]]
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{{c|tedium}}

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