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Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Topic Options #166731 - 03/12/07 01:30 PM Re: effete [Re: wwh] klingsor klingsor stranger Registered: 03/12/07 Posts: 1 In all the msgs here I did not once see the famous remark by Nixon's vice president Spiro Agnew who spoke in one of his diatribes against some political enemies about "effete snobs". Since this happened a very long time ago, I don't recall if that was all there was to it, or if there was any more. Does anypne else remember this? Top #166784 - 03/13/07 03:55 PM Re: effete [Re: klingsor] Zed Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 1661 Loc: British Columbia, Canada Hi Klinsor, welcome aboard. US politics isn't my forte but politics from anywhere remain a great source for insults. Top Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Previous Topic   Index   Next Topic   Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode klingsor View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Zed View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 6475 Members 16 Forums 12020 Topics 176694 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 1 registered (zmjezhd) and 155 anonymous users online. details Newest Members Eileen, dnsm4, celtic, Reva, pardeep 6474 Registered Users Top Posters 13858 wwh 11418 Faldage 9598 Jackie 8577 tsuwm 6380 AnnaStrophic 6296 Wordwind 6045 etaoin 5364 of troy 4683 maverick 4186 WhitmanO'Neill May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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