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Ah grapho, grapho! You just won't go willingly to your proper gaffe fate. Yes of course, "to bust" means to arrest a single person, but "to bust up" means "to break up", as in a gang. But you knew that, grapho, now didn't you? So why do you feel the necessity to mealy-mouth your apology to these upstanding erudite people here on this word-parsing board? Can you not simply say... ___________________________________"I have spinned, my brethern, but now I repent?" 
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Can you not simply say ... "I have spinned, my brethern, but now I repent?"
"Consider the lilies of the field", themilum. "They toil not, neither do they spin."
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upstanding erudite people here on this word-parsing board?
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upstanding erudite people here on this word-parsing board? Errugo again, Grapho. [Just funnin' with ya, Carps. ]
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Remember back, graho, back in '82, when you by trickery won the one-upmanship trophy of the graduating class of Springfield High? Well, you graho, are still the king, I give up. 
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re "trickery won the one-upmanship trophy ... Well, you grapho, are still the kingWell, thank you, themilum ... [I think  ]. BTW how do you win a one-upmanship trophy by "trickery"? If your one-upping isn't on the up and up, how can anyone judge it? I think you're thinking of the come-uppance trophy, themilum.
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Can you not simply say ... "I have spinned ..."Not without putting any spin on it, themilum. BTW here's a comprehensive definition of "spin" from today's Independent of London. Headline: "The operation went according to plan. Shame about the spin" "Spin is briefing journalists so that they report, without attribution, messages the Government wants put across but does not want to say. Spin is suggesting to journalists the coded messages in what was actually said. Spin is putting a gloss on the facts, turning a deficit into a surplus, and previously announced spending into "new" money. It is repackaging old policies into new ones."http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=568245For the latest on Paris, visit "Confessions of an Heirhead". We put it out when Paris puts out.
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