From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 05/08/2025 05:28 PM, Max Demian wrote: 
 > On 05/08/2025 11:14, JNugent wrote: 
 >> On 05/08/2025 09:53 AM, Jethro_uk wrote: 
 > 
 >>> Can I have my cake and eat it ? 
 >> 
 >> Probably not*. And that applies to all of us. 
 >>> 
 >>> These - and no other questions - are still to be decided. Luckily we now 
 >>> have the concept of quantum physics to guide us. We may yet get there. 
 >> 
 >> [*I've long thought that the formation "have my cake and eat it" does 
 >> not properly convey the concept to which it relates. The question is 
 >> strictly about whether one can eat one's cake and still have it 
 >> afterwards. 
 > 
 > All right. It's "Eat a cake and still have it." Start a campaign to 
 > persuade people to used the revised saying. 
  
 Thanks, but don't get me started on the Americanism "I could care less"... 
  
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