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“It won’t be long before Benghazi becomes a toponym for a failure of policy covered up by a plethora of lies.”
1 posted on 05/21/2014 5:17:49 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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Homework is due, gang.


2 posted on 05/21/2014 5:18:33 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Jay Carney: The (Benghazi) emails weren't about Benghazi.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

A toponym would be what you’d like to be called primarily.
As opposed to a botonym, which is what you’d least like to be referred to as.


3 posted on 05/21/2014 5:21:53 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Would Cleveland steamer be a toponym?


8 posted on 05/21/2014 5:27:11 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Or what about Alabama hot pocket?


10 posted on 05/21/2014 5:27:48 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Toponymornin’ to ya, Truthie!


17 posted on 05/21/2014 5:46:03 AM PDT by SAJ
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
The English language is replete with such expressions where the name of a place has become associated with a particular quality, such as laconic (using few words) from Laconia in ancient Greece or bohemian (unconventional) from Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

Yeah, the inhabitant of Lesbos aren't particularly pleased either.

24 posted on 05/21/2014 6:05:02 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

toponymorning!


33 posted on 05/21/2014 6:32:51 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
The Obama criminal syndicate continues to succeed with each of its anti-American schemes and scandals, none of them even coming close to being the Waterloo for this administration.
51 posted on 05/21/2014 7:21:13 AM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

In Texas, when we plan to do something PDQ, we say we do it in “a New York minute”


53 posted on 05/21/2014 7:53:16 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Calling the ex-First Lady Hillary Rotten Clinton is an apropos toponym.


94 posted on 05/21/2014 7:09:07 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

In Yiddish we describe someone or something stupid as the “Wisdom of Chelm.” Chelm was a town noted for fools (more like illogical logic).


95 posted on 05/21/2014 8:21:36 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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