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#107859 07/19/03 02:40 PM
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Is that what you musicians call a dying fall - or should that be autumnal decline? [/xthread]


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Then there was the friend of a friend of mine who was wearing a Vernal Falls T shirt.
(http://www.lateaugust.com/images/vernalfalls.jpg)

I asked him if it was near Autumnal Springs. He had no idea what I was talking about.


#107861 07/20/03 05:52 AM
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Nurse: Marry farewell. Pray what saucie merchant was
this that was so full of his roperipe?

Romeo: A gentleman, Nurse, that loues to heare himselfe
talke, and will speake more in an houre than hee will stand
to in a month.

Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 4.


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Well done, that man - knew I'd heard it somewhere!


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Sorry, dears. Just got back yesterday from a week serving as chaplain at a church summer camp to 125 wildly pre-adolescent children. Whew. A return to the pleasures of etymology and literature is a great (if tardy) relief.




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