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by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:40 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: VALENTINE - A Preview (comments welcome)
Replies: 36
Views: 83992

some of that is not that romantic

Better to dine on weeds where there is love than to eat fat ox with hatred. Flam I can't of course speak for all women, but on a day noted for eating chocolate and being beautiful, the words "weeds" and "fat" and "hatred" are not terribly romantic to me! Katy btw: PR 1...
by KatyBr
Sun Feb 20, 2005 1:53 am
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Skepticism
Replies: 141
Views: 230554

clamactic?

is that sexual release for a geoduck?

Katy
by KatyBr
Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:05 pm
Forum: WELCOME HOME!
Topic: Welcome to our new Agora
Replies: 99
Views: 434577

welcome Garzo

Nice to see you here, Garzo.

Katy
:lol: :D :lol:
by KatyBr
Sat Feb 19, 2005 9:02 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: Skepticism
Replies: 141
Views: 230554

oops

Katy
by KatyBr
Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:07 pm
Forum: Idioms
Topic: I'm going to go home and unthaw the meatloaf.
Replies: 16
Views: 56758

ravel and unravel

we've discussed before the relation between ravel and unravel, (which oc means to knit, Ahem!)

see: here
and here I think the ravel part starts on page 2 but it's an entertaining little thread!

Katy
by KatyBr
Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:18 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: MARSHAL
Replies: 12
Views: 25726

western USA dialect

Well and them respectively.

LOL
Katy
by KatyBr
Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:13 pm
Forum: Good Word Suggestions
Topic: etiolate
Replies: 2
Views: 9904

ETIOLATED

etiolated is a plant that has grown tall thin and pale seeking the sun where it can't get enough to build any good chlorophil to be healthy. I use it t discribe a certain class of female child who has grown tall and painfully thin, whose clothing seems to hover 1/2 inch above the surface of her skin...
by KatyBr
Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:14 am
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: MARSHAL
Replies: 12
Views: 25726

Marshal

"Wahl, Marshal Dillon. Ah spect ya jes gotta go affer dem cattle russler's n' string em up." Festus said as he inspected the toothpick that just recently probed between two brown molars. "Now Festus, you know we can't just go hanging those men, we have to have a trial first. Now marsh...
by KatyBr
Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:31 am
Forum: Idioms
Topic: I'm going to go home and unthaw the meatloaf.
Replies: 16
Views: 56758

gruntled and chalant

This was on the 'old' Agora, someone had posted it there, I drag it out every so often for newer members of the Agora.

Katy
by KatyBr
Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:16 pm
Forum: Etymology
Topic: I don't want to look stupid, but irregardless I want to know
Replies: 135
Views: 2053770

joke

funny, it takes a second or two to pick up on.

Katy
by KatyBr
Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:10 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: Questions of Grammar
Replies: 7
Views: 27185

myths that we NEED!

just as the Cherry tree story in the George Washington lore is probably not true, but is necessary so is the Winston Chruchill story, Please do not throw solvent on my favorite Anecdotes!

Katy
::) :) :lol:
by KatyBr
Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:03 pm
Forum: Idioms
Topic: One of my favorite new idioms is CC : Carbon Copy!
Replies: 30
Views: 102260

cc

I was a secretary back in the early 70's when computers were still room-sized, cc was carbon copy. even back in the 60's when mimeograph had it's last gasp it was Carbon-copy. and it Did refer to the carbon paper back up we used in our up-to-date very modern Royals and Smith Corona's. Katy those wer...
by KatyBr
Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:55 pm
Forum: Idioms
Topic: I'm going to go home and unthaw the meatloaf.
Replies: 16
Views: 56758

now is the time to post this again

Enjoy! How I met my wife" by Jack Winter Published 25 July 1994 - The New Yorker 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 wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in...
by KatyBr
Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:23 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Suggestion Box
Replies: 67
Views: 295812

unicode

I suppose I'll have to learn to read unicode now, sigh

Katy
by KatyBr
Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:21 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: INFANTRY
Replies: 16
Views: 38105

eggzachery!

eggzachary!

Katy

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