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#155666 02/14/06 03:06 PM
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This word reminded me of an excellent story I read in a Hitchcock collection. In Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham, also published as The Kraken Wakes, eustasy is at the core of the frightening plot.


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#155667 02/14/06 07:49 PM
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Welcome Aramis11. Interesting choice of avatar, if I may say so. Are you an expat Kiwi, or just fond of apteryx?

#155668 02/14/06 11:03 PM
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Interesting choice of avatar

or maybe he is heir to a shoe polish fortune!

#155669 02/15/06 12:58 AM
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What I want to know is: what is that stuff in the signature? C'mon, Georgia boy, 'fess up; and while you're at it, send me a waft of my very most favoritest men's cologne that is your name... And oh, yeah--welcome aBoard!

#155670 02/15/06 01:00 PM
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What I want to know is: what is that stuff in the signature?



It's ARAMIS in faincy lettering. How he did it I have no clue.

#155671 02/15/06 01:07 PM
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formerly known as etaoin...
#155672 02/15/06 02:12 PM
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Geek.





#155673 02/15/06 06:12 PM
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...eustasy is at the core of the frightening plot.

I used to see them but now I'm desensitized. (running, ducking, profusely apologizing-e)

#155674 02/15/06 06:30 PM
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>profusely apologizing

Why?


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#155675 02/15/06 06:44 PM
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>profusely apologizing

Why?




we should form a group to annotate musick's posts.

but who would qualify to be on it?!

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