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I seem to be hearing more and more people using the word reticent to mean reluctant. Has anyone else noticed this?

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Yes.
I have noticed that most folks here are too reticent to say anything bad about Obama.

He is a snake.

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He is a snake.

Surely you mean he is the POTUS. (And what did my grandma say about folks who lived in glass houses throwing stones?)


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Perhaps more understand the meaning of the word hence its prolific use.

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Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
He is a snake.

Surely you mean he is the POTUS. (And what did my grandma say about folks who lived in glass houses throwing stones?)




That they should not undress in the Living Room?????


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That they should not undress in the Living Room?

While throwing stones? That is an interesting image. Perhaps they shouldn't hurl themselves through the big picture window in the living room while undressing.


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Your image, not mine.


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Your image, not mine.

Oh, you tease. Nope, I'm pretty sure you introduced the "undressing" part. But, whatever ...


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Oh, surely, you throw stones, but whatever....


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Your image, not mine.

Sigh....

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Oh, surely, you throw stones, but whatever....

Stones? Sure, I've got 'em, but I tend not to throw them too far from home. Now for the sheep in their little glass pastures ...


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Sigh....

Don't sigh so, Branshea; it never works with teases such as this'n'.


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Politicians never want to do anything (reluctant) but they never stop talking so they are not reticent (silent).

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
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Your image, not mine.

Sigh....



Speaking as a thrower of stones.


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Och Luke, if all sighs were stones the roads would be impassable.

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Och...you quoted me above, and remember your castigations, totally
uncalled for, starting with a "too big" signature.


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I am not naturally reticent, but have been reluctant to enter this debate. However, after mature penumbration on the topic of the propulsion of lapidæ, I refer you to John 8:7


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Forgive us our debts and all that stuff?
Some among us don't believe in God.


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Indeed, many of us don't - but the bibke - along with many other wotks of philosophy - can give us wisdom, so long as we are a bit selective!

(Whoops - my typing has really gone to pot!)

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We'll see, but I won't hold my breath.


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BTW, if you don't have your Gideon bible handy, John 8:7 is the bit about "he who casts the first stone ..."

(But you guessed that, anyway!)

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Yes, I did, especially about the "first stone". Hence my
comment. But I don't expect any kind of reply.
Those who keep casting are probably like those who piled their
cloaks at the feet of a man named Saul, in Acts.


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I just hope he gave them back before sunset! (Lev 22:26)


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You two get a room. I'm not the one who came storming in all a-bustle. And, while we're flinging around chapter and verse: how's about Matthew VII:1ff.


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Not judging - just saying.


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What he said. And mine was just a question about glass houses.
Conversations go awry on this site all the time.

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What he said. And mine was just a question about glass houses.

What I said. I was the one who brought up glass houses and brick throwing, although it was posed as a rhetorical questions. Anyway, carry on.


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Righto. But I responded about undressing in the living room?
Just an old joke: dates from the 1950's at least. Not meant
to be hurtful.


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Just an old joke: dates from the 1950's at least.

Ah, I see. Not familiar with it. Perhaps a bit before my time.


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When someone was about to say "People who live in glass houses.."
someone else would quickly respond "should not undress in the
living room". No harm no foul.


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You and I must be of similar vintage, Luke - I remember if from about that time, too.


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I've noticed that myself from time to time. Born at war's end.
Each grade number corresponded with the year in the fifties.
lst in 51, and so forth.

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Yep - I was the other end of the War - just after it started, so you can't blame me!


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Well at least we have it surrounded.


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There doesn't seem to be any new saying, these days.

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How d'ye mean, Candy?


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Just that all the 'sayings' are old ones......there are no new ones being repeated.

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Then maybe we should be inventing new ones here?

I'd give it some thought, myself, but at present I'm running round like an electron in the LHC.


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AUGH not again!

I tried to ask if lapidae means rabbits.

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only if da rabbits is made of stone!

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Ha! A Troll-rabbit!


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Most interesting. Seems the problem continues.

Edit: I had a half dozen blank posts when I opened this
one, and the above was my comment. Posting it, they
all disappeared.

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