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tsuwm....getting closer! But exnihilation isn't in my unabridged, and back when I first looked up this word (oh, maybe 40 years ago), I do remember it was a fairly common word although seldom used.
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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??? why do you assume a specific psalm, rather than psalms in gerneral?
Wull ... I know pot selling isn't one of the major themes of the psalms but I don't know them well enough to say that there isn't one specific one that touches on the subject. That's all I'm saying. You're the one suggested the psalms might could have something to do with the subject. Or either you or Dickie his own se'f, one.
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Faldo, I made no direct connection between WFB's (alleged) pot usage and the WFB quote. I merely found it interesting that I found him using a really, really abstruse and obscure word meaning 'something created out of nothing' - and yet that seems to not be the word in question.
I hope this clarifies my bemusement.
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WOO HOO!!! Didn't take long to find! parthenogenesis (so much for my feeble memory thinking it started with a "v")... "RESTORATION: One final question in regard to drugs, if you don't mind my asking. Have you ever done any drugs that are banned in America? BUCKLEY: Yes I have. That question was asked of me--I was on the Johnny Carson show, and David Suskind asked me that. Where I had it was on my boat outside of American jurisdiction. He said, well, how'd you get it on your boat? And I said, "parthenogenesis." Carson thought that was so funny. I was off Nassau and it was a bad trip because the other two guys on my boat--we all took it jointly--and they just laughed, everything they thought was just hilarious. I just got sleepy. Maybe you have to get more used to it." http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=43Thanks everybody! I hate it when that happens, you hear a word and decide you'll remember that one, but poof, it's gone forever. Thanks Dalehileman! Now I can sleep! LOL
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boy, howdy. that's a typical Buckley reach.
maybe Carson laughed just because it was altisonant.
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I know Carson was no dummy, but I bet he laughed to cover up not knowing.
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Parthenogensis does not mean 'to materialize out of thin air'. It means virgin birth. Something which Wm F'Buckley, as a lifelong Catholic apologist, would've believe in fervently, with or without hempen blood levels. (It's also a biological term having to do with unfertilized eggs developing into organisms.) It was a common enough occurrence in pre-Christian mythologies, too. (The Talmud, in one of its famous expurgated sections, posits that Yeshu (i.e., Jesus) was the son of a Roman legionnaire named Pandera, and was thus known as Yeshu ben Pandera (which some tie to Greek παρθενος (parthenos) 'virgin' and others with πανθηρ (panther) 'leopard'); this is referred to obliquely in the wonderfully funny The Life of Brian by Monty Python.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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