[Izzy Dunne]

First of all, it ["courage"] was my father's favorite word. My mother's favorite word was "meadow".

Yeah, OK, if those are my choices, I could go with "courage".

[satchmodog9]

Too bad he wasn't born in the early seventies. His parents could have named him Meadow Courage.

[Archon of the East]

In most cases I feel sympathy and compassion for a person showing signs of dementia but in this case I'll make an exception. This guy is a LOSER big time and an idiot to boot.

[rollinginmybuggy]

This is the e-mail I sent buttboy Kalb...




You made a lot of glaring errors in your interview with Dan Rather.

Is this the level of accuracy that you teach your students?

Or is accuracy not as important as the message?

[Slainte]

I know I'm getting horribly bogged down in minutia, but honestly, do normal people really have a "favorite" word? For some reason the concept is so far outside my realm of experience, that it's really tripping me up.

"Look Ma, I painted 'COURAGE' on all the walls of the den, it is my favorite word ya know."

I can think of all sorts of words the evoke fond memories, or are generally pleasant, but a favorite word? Courage? Meadow?

And how in the world did I manage to make it to this point in my life without having the slightest inkling of what either of my parents' favorite word would happen to be? Oh, I can remember any number of words that you might think were their favorite by the frequency and emotion under which they were tossed around, but they really weren't anything like 'courage' or 'meadow.'

I was getting a little concerned about this whole idea and then I remembered that Rather's off his gourd.