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Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered [[and/or]], the good people of the European Commission's crack drafting squad say HOLD MY BEER. | Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered [[and/or]], the good people of the European Commission's crack drafting squad say HOLD MY BEER. It might not even make idiomatic, let alone legal, sense, but it appears 33 times in the {{tag|AIFMD}} implementing regulations: | ||
[[File:Andor.png|center|[[And/or]] on steroids, or maybe a hallucinogenic trip]] | [[File:Andor.png|center|[[And/or]] on steroids, or maybe a hallucinogenic trip]] | ||
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Behold: a novel, frightful, way of articulating the already gruesome expression "[[and/or]]": | Behold: a novel, frightful, way of articulating the already gruesome expression "[[and/or]]": | ||
Take out the [[virgule]] (the [[slash]], [[/]] that unnecessary character) and replace it with [[as the case may be]] | Take out the [[virgule]] (the [[slash]], “[[/]]” that unnecessary character) and replace it with “[[as the case may be]]”: | ||
"and, [[as the case may be]], or". | "and, [[as the case may be]], or". | ||
This is black-belt stuff, gang: | This is black-belt stuff, gang: ''Nested'' {{tag|flannel}}. A flannelette phase, (one already displaying a keening want of [[ontological certainty]]) ''embedded in'' another flannelette phrase ''that also displays [[profound ontological uncertainty]]''. | ||
Breath taken. There’s a portal to the fourth dimension right there. An information superhighway direct to the [[Boredom heat death|boredom heat-death]] of the universe. | |||
{{seealso}} | {{seealso}} | ||