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Posted on 03/31/2002 5:16:38 PM PST by SrBirdman
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To: browardchad
"By George, she's got it!"
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:37:04 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: ewchil
I would go with the long line of short words Nah. You wouldn't. Poly-syllabic utterances eschew the necessity to be verbose and conserve bandwidth at the same time. Precision in communication confers efficiency. Try it. You'll like it.
To: SrBirdman
By mystifying the symptoms of the paradoxical illusion, an extravagant statement as the above-mentioned will not intercalate any alterations to my reminiscences or transform my abstract tendencies.
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:43:19 PM PST
by
AIBC
To: cornelis
Francis Coppola Diamond Series Black Label Claret (1999 Cabernet Sauvignon)Too fruity for my taste. Besides, I like a real cork.
To: kayak
poink
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posted on
03/31/2002 6:46:32 PM PST
by
lepton
To: otterpond
Quercus suber. pro sit!
66
posted on
03/31/2002 7:06:00 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: SrBirdman
"Don't use big words."How about this:
In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compact comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, purient pscosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent.
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posted on
03/31/2002 7:06:27 PM PST
by
Consort
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
O.K. Punk, when are you going to post the answers?
I figured out all but four and one of them I'm not really sure of.
Please post the answers soon.
To: hoosiermama
"We don't have spell check!" Can you say "dictionary??
To: Jimer
By George, I think you've got it.
70
posted on
03/31/2002 7:18:28 PM PST
by
tbird1
To: SrBirdman
Sounds familiar -- is this the first paragraph in Cornel West's latest book?
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posted on
03/31/2002 7:19:39 PM PST
by
WL-law
To: SrBirdman
Now when I walk the streets
kings and queens step aside
Every woman I meet
they all stay satisfied.
I wanna tell ya, baby
what I see I make my own.
And I'm here to tell ya, pretty woman
that I'm rodomontade!
ro-ro-rodomontade!
ro-ro-rodomontade!
ro-ro-rodomontade!
rodomontade!
72
posted on
03/31/2002 7:30:35 PM PST
by
mrsmith
To: mrsmith
Arrogant Saracens, what's up with them lately?
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posted on
03/31/2002 7:35:01 PM PST
by
cornelis
Comment #74 Removed by Moderator
To: SrBirdman
No Sesquipedalians Allowed
To: SrBirdman
At least, if you are going to use "big words", learn to spell them correctly! I lost track after the first half-dozen errors. Glad I'm not his copy-editor!
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Think I got them all- is the third from the last "Look before you leap"?
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Beauty is only skin deep
Still water runs deep
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Birds of feather flock together
Don't cry over spilt milk.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The calm that follows the storm.
The crown ???
Too many cooks sppoled the broth
Beginner's luck
????
Variety is the spice of life
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Twinkle, twinkle little star
You can not teach an old dog new tricks
Early to bed, early to rise is healthy, wealthy and wise.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
????
A bird in the cage is worth two in the bush.
You can lead a horse to water but you can not make it drink.
Bump for a way to find this later. What happened to the bookmark button?
To: Jeff Gordon
All that glitters is not gold.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
THe early bird gets the worm.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
where there's smoke, there's fire.
Pride cometh before a fall First things first, or don't put the cart before the horse
A atitch in time saves nine.
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Beggars can't be choosers.
Dead men tell no tales
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Haste makes waste.
Loose lips sink ships.?
He who laughs last, laughs best.
No pain, no gain.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me
When it rains it pours.
when the cats away, the mice will play.
A dime for a shoe shine?
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don't use big words.
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