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#18535 04/30/01 01:29 PM
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I've never come across the term "lulu" at all! Must be only a US thing...
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wwh - I thought an Appaloosa was a spotted horse, highly prized by Indians...I'm prepared to be shown to be wrong!

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Dear Sara: I too believe an "Appaloosa" is a large-spotted black and white Indian breed of horse, highly prized by cowboys for its outstanding stamina.


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... Jordan Almond:

Sparteye, that's the guy's name??

Well, I'll be an M & M....


#18539 04/30/01 04:11 PM
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... Jordan Almond:

Sparteye, that's the guy's name??

Ha Ha! I thought that was funny, and a good example of an appallation. I don't know why parents do that to their supposedly loved offspring. But wouldn't you love it if his wife's name was Candy?

BTW - The gentleman is a Professor Emeritus of English at Farmdale University in New York.


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"I thought that was funny, and a good example of an appallation"

Dear Sparteye: Is an "appallation" an appalling appellation?

Did Jordan Almonds' students think he was a sweet old nut?


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Dear Sparteye: Is an "appallation" an appalling appellation?

It is, as my ATL prof used to say, a "Herzword." And you have the etymology right. [applause emoticon]


*editorial thought: what I wouldn't give for the spell check to stop suggesting "spasm" as a substitute for "Sparteye" ....



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Sparteye, that's the guy's name??

Well, I'll be an M & M....

I had a professor in graduate school who grew up with the family that owns the Mars candy company, maker of Mars Bars and M&M's. I can't recall the family's last name, but it began with M, and he told me that they named all their kids with M names - so they were all M&M's themselves.

People are weird, eh?

* addendum, having seen Sparteye's gripe about Ænigma's reading of her name - Hyla is read as hyman - which, as far as I can tell, ain't even spellt write. Hmph.

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"addendum, having seen Sparteye's gripe about Ænigma's reading of her name - Hyla is read as hyman - which, as far as I can tell, ain't even spellt write. Hmph."

Dear Hyla: what do you care, you never had one to lose.




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*editorial thought: what I wouldn't give for the spell check to stop suggesting "spasm" as a substitute for "Sparteye" ...

Have you stopped to think that perhaps, just perhaps, Aenigma knows more than you believe, and that this might be a kneejerk reaction?

Which, indirectly, reminds me: A guy invents the ultimate computer, one which Shanks has stated may already be with us or which is coming soon. Anyway, to test it he asks the guy next door to ask it a question, any question, and that it was quids on that the computer would know the answer.

"All right," says the neighbour, "Tell me this: Where is my father?"

The computer hums and whirs for a few minutes (you gotta have mainframe characteristics, don'cha?) then responds, in a 1960s B-movie sci-fi sort of voice, "Your father is fishing off the end of Brighton Pier".

The neighbour snorts derisively (as you do), and says sarcastically, "My father's been dead for nearly 20 years. Some machine you got yourself, there, chum!"

The inventor thinks for a few seconds, then replies, "Well how about asking it the same question, but in a different way?"

"Okay," says the neighbour, "um, where is my mother's husband?"

Computer does some interesting-sounding things again, then gravels out "Your mother's husband has been dead for many years."

"See?" said the neighbour. "It doesn't know squ..."

But the computer hasn't finished. It hiccoughs a couple more times, then continues, "Excuse me! In spite of your mother's husband's demise, your father is still fishing off the end of Brighton Pier."

Ah well.




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