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		cdchn on Feb 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator... They were riffing on the idiom. You're taking the idiom too literally.

card_zero on Feb 2, 2024 [–]

Like when Biff Tannen says "why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?", that kind of riffing on the idiom, riffing on it like that.

Rapzid on Feb 2, 2024 | [–]

Too clever by 50%

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