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HenHanna wrote:
> [This is a guest post from Brett Powley]
> 
> I ran into something recently that I thought might be log-worthy. My 
> wife was watching Van Helsing, the TV series, and I heard one of the 
> characters say this:
> 
>                   1.  I didn’t save you because you’re not important.
> 
> Now, what he meant was:
> 
>                   2.  I wouldn’t have saved you if you weren’t important.
> 
> 
> --------------------   1 sounds weird,

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