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Jun 2024
9:01pm, 28 Jun 2024
27,833 posts
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Dvorak
"If I Was" by Midge Ure (UK #1 in 1985, also #1 in Ireland and #2 in Germany), wherein he runs through several potential scenarios, none impossible but some unlikely. "Being an otter" was not amongst them.
The scenario of potential was so popular with Midge that "If I Was" is the title of a best of Ultravox and Midge Ure, and and also of his autobiography.
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Jun 2024
9:21pm, 28 Jun 2024
18,846 posts
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JamieKai *chameleon*
Thanks.
Perhaps had Mr Ure considered being an otter, he would have been more popular 
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Jun 2024
10:03pm, 28 Jun 2024
1,040 posts
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Silent Runner
Perhaps had Mr Ure considered being an otter, he would have been more popular :)
He did replace a fox(x), so it might have been appropriate.
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Jul 2024
3:45pm, 4 Jul 2024
10,433 posts
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GordonG
I saw an online advert the other day encouraging people to 'pre-book' tickets to an exhibition.
Given that paying for a ticket now and going straight into an exhibition is purchasing, not booking, what's the difference between 'pre-book' and 'book'? Both imply purchasing in advance, so what does the 'pre' add?
thoughts?
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Jul 2024
4:32pm, 4 Jul 2024
24,057 posts
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Red Squirrel
🦦😀
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Jul 2024
6:00pm, 4 Jul 2024
4,373 posts
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NordRunner
I know, that one kills me, along with “pre-warn” and a bunch of others I don't want my brain to think of right now! I blame the infectious “pre-order”, which (I grudgingly concede) once had a meaning for when a maker needed to know if there were demand enough to make a batch, and which really should be followed the actual order, IMHO.
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Jul 2024
6:05pm, 4 Jul 2024
18,883 posts
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JamieKai *chameleon*
(Isn't "pre-ordering" essentially "pre-buying"? Certainly in the videogames world, it's pay now, play later!)
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Jul 2024
6:12pm, 4 Jul 2024
4,375 posts
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NordRunner
That's just buying with a (pre-) warning about an uncertain delivery date
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Jul 2024
9:43pm, 4 Jul 2024
27,860 posts
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Dvorak
Pre-booking would therefore be booking sometime which is not yet available for actual booking? That makes zero sense.
In fact, it's pre-posterous.
(Weirdly, my autocorrect offered "pre-parkrun".)
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Jul 2024
9:50pm, 9 Jul 2024
4,220 posts
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Oranj
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