RE: Re: OT: On keeping domesticated peeves as pets --> Re[2]: Colonists and Weapons

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:42:31 -0500, Flak Magnet <flakmagnet72@yahoo.com>
wrote :

> I thought that by definition a _pet_ peeve was your single most
> prominent peeve. How can you have more than one most prominent peeve?

But you can have more than one pet (eg a dog, a hedgehog, and a hamster)
simultaneously, right?	So "pet" merely designates a higher but not
necessarily exclusive status.  A "noble" peeve, so to speak, as opposed
to lesser or "common" peeves.  The next step up, however, is not a
"peeve" but a "pain", as in "a royal pain".

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