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Maybe it was a joke, but you missed the implicit hyphen between mis and starts. So, not Miss Tarts, but rather Mis-starts.

Maybe @nmcfarl meant to say near-misses? or rather, just misses. But not as in ladies, but as in horseshoes.




The first time I read the sentence I misread it, giggled like a school boy, and quickly replied to the post tongue-in-cheek.

However, HN did not appreciate the joke, and to be honest it was rather inane. I should try to remember that puerile humour belongs on Reddit and not HN.




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