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Don't you hate it when someone says: "To make a long story short..." and it isn't?

Posted - December 10, 2020
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  • 1952
    Yes... I see your lips are moving but all I hear is blah blah blah blah blah!!!
      December 10, 2020 8:44 AM MST
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  • 13277
    I prefer saying, "To make a short story long..."
      December 10, 2020 8:47 AM MST
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  • 44655
    I've never heard that. However, I have seen a few muggers here that love long, complex answers to simple questions. Often they are on a side thread that has little or nothing to do with the original question. I ignore them.
      December 10, 2020 8:51 AM MST
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  • 4624
    Woops, I had better shut up.
      December 10, 2020 4:56 PM MST
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  • 44655
    Stop that. Yours are on topic and you are a writer. You can't help it.
      December 10, 2020 7:36 PM MST
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  • 4624
    Giggling out loud! :D
      December 10, 2020 10:35 PM MST
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  • 423
    When used in proper, time-tested context, yes, this and other hoary phrases can seem stale and uninteresting. I am still impressed and delighted when such phrases are used cleverly and appropriately with sardonic or facetious intent.
      December 10, 2020 8:57 AM MST
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  • 4624
    That's the art of using a cliché with skill, getting it to perform yoga, an apt side-stretch, headstand or spinal twist. This post was edited by inky at December 11, 2020 8:12 AM MST
      December 10, 2020 10:37 PM MST
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  • 10664
    You know, that reminds me of a something that happened to me a few years back.  It all started when.....
      December 10, 2020 10:51 AM MST
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  • 53528

     

      Hey, wait . . .
       ~

      December 10, 2020 10:49 PM MST
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  • "Anyway, to make a long story short...is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling." :P
      December 11, 2020 12:19 PM MST
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