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Originally Posted by ila
What the heck is preprocessed crap? Being that you used the prefix pre the meaning would then be crap before it is processed. So then what you are actually saying is don't eat or drink crap until it has been processed. This then leads to the question, how show one process crap so that when consumed it leads to a better sleep?
The point here is never use pre with a verb as it renders the verb meaningless.
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I recently started a bit of a row at the airport in Oakland, California, when a Southwest Airlines employee overheard me ridicule his use of "pre-board" in an announcement. He challenged me -- not at all like most Southwest employees, for whom the customer is always right -- and so I explained the ridiculousness of this use of "pre-" on certain words. The listeners in line to board seemed to agree with me, and one of them even said out loud that he now regretted having "pre-ordered" a book on Amazon.com. Victory!!
As for Merely Pink, I believe a deep knowledge of crap is a prerequisite for playing Pink's role here on this site. I suspect that despite Pink's poor choice of words, there is a meaning to "preprocessed crap" with respect to Pink. Imagine Pink's avatar before it is "processed" in Pink's head: it is
preprocessed. Once it becomes part of Pink's persona on this site, and the role Pink plays, it takes on its
crap nature.