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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; Clinging Bitterly; All

When I engage in floccinaucinihilipilification, I soon turn to circumlocutory hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianisms.


1,617 posted on 11/03/2014 7:12:53 AM PST by Scoutmaster (Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational)
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To: Monkey Face; Tax-chick; NicknamedBob; Clinging Bitterly
I don't know what the copyright date is on my earliest copy of Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary, but each revision gets better.

Where else do you learn that a sporabola is the curving path a spore takes as it falls to the ground?

1,618 posted on 11/03/2014 7:20:17 AM PST by Scoutmaster (Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational)
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To: Scoutmaster

Now there’s a mouthful.


1,619 posted on 11/03/2014 7:37:39 AM PST by Monkey Face (If I refuse to take a nap, can I be fined for resisting a rest?)
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To: Scoutmaster; Monkey Face; Tax-chick; NicknamedBob

You do that and you’re cleaning it up yourself.


1,697 posted on 11/03/2014 8:31:48 PM PST by Clinging Bitterly (I will not comply.)
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