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AND sayin'Thordaddy said:And sayin'zn said:Thordaddy said:Bananas don't fly man.zn said:X said:Me too.RamFan503 said:Man I can't wait until football actually starts. :7up:
Now diagnose this quote.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
It's based on a figure of speech called an antanaclasis which works by repeating a single word but with a different meaning each time it is used. A famous example is Benjamin Franklin's: "We must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately."
There's also a wikipedia entry on that quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_fruit_flies_like_a_banana
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Just sayin.