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To: unixfox

They keep this up and they’ll have to reinstate public vomitoriums...


17 posted on 11/16/2018 10:00:33 AM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: DoughtyOne

Word Origin and History for vomitorium
n.

1754, “passage or opening in an ancient amphitheater, leading to or from the seats,” from Latin (Macrobius, Sat. , VI.iv); see vomit. Erroneous meaning “place where ancient Romans (allegedly) deliberately vomited during feasts” is attested from 1923.

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19 posted on 11/16/2018 10:01:47 AM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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