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speaking of shams, and weren't we just..
here, in its entire, is the def'n I have for fourberie: fourberie [F. < fourbe, a cheat, imposter] /FUR buh ree/ obs. trickery, deception fraud: artifice, bamboozlement, bamboozling, blackmail, cheat, chicane, chicanery, con, craft, deceit, double-dealing, dupery, duping, duplicity, extortion, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, flimflam, fourberie, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwinking, hustle, imposture, line, misrepresentation, racket, scam, sell, shakedown, sham, sharp practice, skunk, smoke, song, spuriousness, sting, string, swindle, swindling, treachery, trickery, vanilla - Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus (2006) [vanilla?]
at the back there, I have asked the pertinent question; to wit, what's vanilla got to do with it? if the answer is ron, I am fully prepared to fuller.
-joe (this could be a rehashed topic of the future) friday
(I probly should have posted this under Q&A, but I dint want to embarrass myself...)
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Vanilla flavorings are more commonly used than true vanilla, based on cost. With few exceptions, most baked goods will taste the same either way, though I do think there's a difference in the resulting texture. I wouldn't use it to mean that, but possibly?
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Would it be worthwhile to learn all that green stuff by head and keep it for a moment you'll be really mad at someone?
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if the answer is ron, I am fully prepared to fuller. Ron Fuller was my boss back when I worked for Hi-Speed Checkweigher.
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Hi-Speed CheckweigherWhat an interesting product and company name. (They're now known as Mettler Toledo.) Wikipedia ways [ sic] anchor on the topic, ( link).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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if the answer is ron, I am fully prepared to fuller. Ron Fuller was my boss back when I worked for Hi-Speed Checkweigher. never even had a brush with him.
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bang, bang. you guys are vanilla..
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Hi-Speed CheckweigherWhat an interesting product and company name. (They're now known as Mettler Toledo.) Wikipedia ways [ sic] anchor on the topic, ( link). The overweight rejection option was not often exercised. The only times I knew of were for drugs and canned goods. Usually it was just reported how much overage there was; the line could be tweaked to get rid of that loss. Underweights could get you in big trouble with the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
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OK, tsuwm, I googled it. Yes, I did. And I bet you did, too. There's a lot out there, including some stuff in Spanish and French which we could enlist our appropriately-phonic friends to translate.
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yes, well, "vanilla fraud" gets ~500 gh, all of them "plain vanilla fraud" from what I saw. but that hardly explains a thesaurus entry under fraud for vanilla. what a plain!
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