A Chinese friend of mine came up with a mild tongue twister: Taking a taxi to Texas to pay taxes. I thought it was something from an English book like “Sally Sells Seashells by the Seashore”. But they said they made it up. I googled it and don’t see it anywhere on the web. I guess I’m a geek. I think it’s so cool that it’s original.<\/p>\n
So play a stupid game with me and let’s see how much we can expand on it. The first version was “taxi to Texas”, then someone added “to pay taxes” and someone added “taking” so we have:<\/p>\n
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Taking a taxi to Texas to pay taxes<\/p>\n
I’ll add “tacky” to make this:<\/p>\n
Taking a tacky taxi to Texas to pay taxes<\/p>\n
And let’s pretend the taxes are for techs that work at a company to get:<\/p>\n
Taking a tacky taxi to Texas to pay tech taxes<\/p>\n
Maybe we can get the word toxic and a few others in there. Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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