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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jef Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:10 PM, darrell pfeifer <darrellpf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you continue to repeat the "eating babies" myth then it will become
>> self-fulfilling.
>
> I would humbly suggest that use of future tense is that sentence is
> overly optimistic and is misleading. I think that sentence above reads
> more accurately
> if reconstructed using present perfect continuous tense to indicate
> that the eating babies myth has been and continues to be
> self-fulfilling instead of suggesting it has yet reached that state.
>
> I however do not believe its a myth. I believe it is a tweetable
> catchphrase which tries to encapsulate the nature of rawhide as a
> collection of bits instead of having to point someone to a detailed
> 1000+ word essay that goes into details of the seasonal stability
> nature rawhide. I do not think it inaccurate, but it may be overly
> graphic and it always makes me hungry when I see it uttered.

I always thought it killed kittens, rather than ate babies.  This is
so confusing.  How are we to know which condiments to keep at the
ready?

-J

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