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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
fredk #361999 12/28/11 03:56 AM
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Gubernatorial always makes me giggle.


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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
St_PatGuy #362008 12/28/11 05:45 AM
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You were that guy in anatomy class that always giggled at the word gubernaculum, weren't you?!


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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
medic8r #362010 12/28/11 06:03 AM
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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
CV #362021 12/28/11 01:57 PM
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At this part of the football season if the Saints are doing well, like they are this year, the word 'ebullient' starts being thrown around in the local paper.


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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
a401classic #362027 12/28/11 02:26 PM
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Scott, Do N.O.'s ever use malfeasance AND ebullient in the same sentence?

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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
BobKay #362032 12/28/11 03:42 PM
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I think it came close this week after the Saints win against Atlanta... The Dirty Birds are crying foul because Brees, et al, ran up the score "just" for record breaking purposes, they claim. I'm not seeing a difference between the score this week (45-16) and last weeks Falcons win against the Jaguars (41-14). Why isn't that being called running up the score? Sure sounds like malfeasance to me wink


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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
a401classic #362521 01/03/12 06:20 PM
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I'd like to see the word "awesome" removed from usage. Especially in those unbelievably useful one word online reviews.

That would be awesome.

Every time I hear or see it used, I feel personally malfeased.

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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
Ray3 #362528 01/03/12 06:38 PM
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There's one! Use/usage. Like dose/dosage.

Though no one is confused with the meanings of either, they're not really interchangable. Not a comment or your use of "usage."

(Especially since you used in it in such a small "dosage.")

Even though you're hundreds of miles away, Ray, I still always feel a bit intimidated to raz you.
I know why, too. It's because we have sat close enough for you to haul off and jam me in mid-sentence, which for some wierd reason, I always feel is imminent no matter who's sitting next to me. Or maybe it was because your hand is twice the size of my head and I was sitting too close to a wall??


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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
BobKay #362529 01/03/12 06:54 PM
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Re: And WORDS are all I ha-have
Ray3 #362546 01/03/12 09:22 PM
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Golden Oldie (from Dan Galvin's Thought for the Day listserv)

tftd heard a lawyer talk about 'unmitigated gall'. tftd
has previously wondered about 'clement' weather and now
questioned whether there was 'mitigated gall'. Others
have obviously had the same question.

How I Met My Wife

Jack Winter, the New Yorker, July 25, 1994.


It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party
I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled
and consolate.

I was furling my weildy umbrella for the coat check when
I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript
person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was
kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way.

I wanted desperately to meet her, but I knew I'd have
to make bones about it, since I was travelling cognito.
Beknowst to me, the hostess, whom I could see both
hide and hair of, was very proper, so it would be skin
off my nose if anything bad happened. And even though
I had only swerving loyalty to her, my manners couldn't
be peccable. Only toward and heard-of behavior would do.

Fortunately, the embarrassment that my maculate
appearance might cause was evitable. There were two
ways about it, but the chances that someone as
flappable as I would be ept enough to become
persona grata or a sung hero were slim. I was, after all,
something to sneeze at, someone you could easily
hold a candle to, someone who usually aroused
bridled passion.

So I decided not to risk it. But then, all at once,
for some apparent reason, she looked in my
direction and smiled in a way that I could
make head or tails of.

I was plussed. It was concerting to see that she was
communicado, and it nerved me that she was
interested in a pareil like me, sight seen. Normally,
I had a domitable spirit, but, being corrigible, I
felt capacitated.as if this were something I was
great shakes at.and forgot that I had succeeded
in situations like this only a told number of times.
So, after a terminable delay, I acted with mitigated gall
and made my way through the ruly crowd with strong givings.

Nevertheless, since this was all new hat to me and
I had not time to prepare a promptu speech, I was
petuous. Wanting to make only called-for remarks,
I started talking about the hors d'oeuvres, trying to
abuse her of the notion that I was sipid, and perhaps
even bunk a few myths about myselfs.

She responded well, and I was mayed that she
considered me a savoury character who was up to
some good. She told me who she was.
"What a perfect nomer," I said, advertently. The
conversation became more and more choate,
and we spoke at length to much avail. But I was
defatigable, so I had to leave at a godly hour.
I asked if she wanted to come with me. To my delight,
she was committal. We left the party together and have
been together ever since. I have given her my love, and
she has requited it.

-Smackerels

http://beebo.org/smackerels/how-i-met-my-wife.html


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