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Ryanair
Ryanair is the same backwards, in an Irish accent.
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Poem
Day and night
Night and day
No one asks why we turn this way
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Best Thing I Never Had
Beyoncé's "Best Thing I Never Had" is a song about her saying good riddance to her boyfriend. It has some cleverly engineered but contradictory sounding lyrics:
- "You turned out to be the best thing I never had"
- "I will always be the best thing you never had"
- "I will never be the best thing you never had"
Sentences 1 and 2 use exactly the same phrase "the best thing never had" to mean directly opposing things for You and I. While sentences 2 and 3 seem to flatly contradict each other, but mean the same thing. How come?
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