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by PeterStuer 13 days ago
The 'BOTH WAYS' in the original stood for 'both walking to the school and walking back from school'. ;)
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bryanrasmussen 13 days ago
that may be what was intended, but if so they should have written something like

"we used to walk 15 miles up hill, BOTH WAYS, just to get to school and back home", which approximates the way that joke is generally phrased, instead of "we used to walk 15 miles up hill, BOTH WAYS, just to get to school" ;)

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Terr_ 13 days ago
I suppose if either end was actually a floating structure that moved with the tide...
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