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This should be fun. An easy word, easily misread, with a double meaning. Posting this AM early. Will review your work beginning about 9AM.

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The twins are a complete organism: they speak their own language, "Aeolian" (named after Aeolus, the wind god); their abiding interest is in their private game of Bep -- "the great geminate game" of lying entwined, head to tail, in an echo of their position in the womb.

Salman Rushdie, "The Stuff of Marvels," New York Times, October 4, 1981

1 posted on 05/21/2015 10:20:45 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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To: Louis Foxwell

Why is the word Geminii used for astrological twins?


2 posted on 05/21/2015 10:33:14 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Upon seeing yet another failed planting of flowers, Jesse was heard to exclaim: “I musn’t be irate, but my flowers just don’t geminate.”


3 posted on 05/21/2015 10:33:30 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (If Hillary was running against Satan, I'd probably abstain.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
While in a Berlin restaurant ordering I pointed saying "I would have the same order that germinate."
4 posted on 05/21/2015 11:12:32 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: Louis Foxwell; Fierce Allegiance; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; ...

You didn’t ping anyone.


5 posted on 05/22/2015 4:41:21 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Louis Foxwell
Geminate: when an emerald begins to sprout
6 posted on 05/22/2015 4:59:04 AM PDT by Cowman
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To: Louis Foxwell

Although the geminate twins spoke Aeolean,
One was genetically finer
He was born innately major,
The other was a natural minor.


7 posted on 05/22/2015 5:08:57 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Huma and Hillary: conjoined, geminate socialists.


8 posted on 05/22/2015 5:09:38 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Lilttle glitshes follow me everywhere I go. Some of you are so on the ball you do not need aping. Thanks for playing.
LF


10 posted on 05/22/2015 6:05:27 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Looks like you’re geminating the pigs with the “gotchas”.


16 posted on 05/22/2015 6:13:31 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Barack and Michelle seem so geminate
One is masculine, one is effeminate
Since I wasn’t there
(And I really don’t care)
Who does what and with which to inseminate


18 posted on 05/22/2015 6:18:45 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
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Bill and Hillary—the geminate force of corruption!!!!


30 posted on 05/22/2015 7:44:14 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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I got paid on the job we finished-it isn’t much but every dollar is precious now-and I’m home ahead of the rain that is on the way...

The situation in Iraq now
Is just another epic fail
And Obama’s incompetence
Should be reason for jail

His blunders will geminate
Historically with Viet Nam
Twice the ball was dropped-
It should have been the bomb

Only one thing is different
About the present situation-
Obama’s foolishness makes LBJ
Look able to lead the nation...


37 posted on 05/22/2015 11:13:11 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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