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To: NicknamedBob
...They'll want to add to your menagery....

Etymology
French ménagerie, derived from ménager to keep house, ménage household. Housekeeping used to include taking care of domestic animals.

Noun
menagerie

A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept
1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus managerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.

A diverse or miscellaneous group
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*puts hand out for .75 cents*

858 posted on 03/12/2008 7:55:43 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Time is Nature's way of preventing everything from happening all at once.)
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To: Monkey Face
"*puts hand out for .75 cents*"

You were pretty sharp this morning.

How are you doing now?


867 posted on 03/12/2008 3:48:13 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Tired of the hype about Hope? ... Just wait. When Obama is elected, all "hope" will be gone.)
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