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COLLIGAZE - Lassie looks intently off into the distance, as though hearing the cry of a child fallen into a well and trapped...

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COLLIGAZE - Lassie looks intently off into the distance,
as though hearing the cry of a child fallen into a well and trapped...


****** Great! Best of the Season. I didn't cry but if I hadn't laughed I would have. Thanks Doc.






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lickspittle

PRONUNCIATION:(LIK-spit-l)
MEANING:
noun: A servile flatterer. ETYMOLOGY:
From lick, from Old English liccian + spittle, from old English spittan. A term with a similar idea is brown-noser. Earliest documented use: 1825.
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LICKSPLITTLE - to hurry forward a little lickety-split.

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LACKSPITTLE -- one with no spirit or backbone; a pissant


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PRONUNCIATION: (TOS-pot)
MEANING: noun: 1. A drunkard. 2. An idiot.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the phrase to toss off (to drink rapidly). Earliest documented use: 1568.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." -Voltaire
"Is it you that you revere, Voltaire?" - answered a drunk
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TOSSBOT- a practice baseball pitching machine that only throws balls wildly as if it were drunk.


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BOSSPOT Executive Lounge


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BOSSPOT - Nice one Luke.
TOPSPOT works there, too!

TOSSPORT - finicky kind of TOSSPOT, will only imbibe one specific beverage

TOSSPOST - there's that Dead Letter Office again (see MAILINGER above, 12/5/13)

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thanks blush


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MILKSOP

PRONUNCIATION: (MILK-sop)

MEANING: noun: One who is timid or indecisive.

ETYMOLOGY: A milksop is, literally, a piece of bread soaked in milk, a diet considered suitable for babies and the sick. A synonym of this term is milquetoast. Earliest documented use: 1390.

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MILLSOP - Standard Operating Procedure in the factory

runnerup:
MILKSOZ - what that fake Wizard does in the Emerald City



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BILKSOP Victim of a ponzi-like scheme.


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