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Gimme a word post! says ASp, at http://216.12.219.209/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=53518&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&vc=1#Post53518Ever one to oblige a lady, I direct your attention to today's daily word and the daily quotation at http://bartleby.com, faldages favorite on-line dictionary. For those of you who may not check before today ends and bartleby changes, today's the word, definition and quotation appear below. marplot NOUN: An officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking. ETYMOLOGY: After Marplot, a character in The Busy Body, a play by Susannah Centlivre Quotation (author born on this date, January 30, in 1882): "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Ah, yes, CK's wife had a close encounter with a rattler in...shoot, somewhere on the East coast--North Carolina? It was his fault, too. As to marplot--I felt my face strangely warm, reading that. I fear I have been known to be a marplot in my time. Mixed results.
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Ah, yes, CK's wife had a close encounter with a rattler in...shoot, somewhere on the East coast--North Carolina?
Virginia. Shenandoah Valley. Skyline Drive.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Keiva, how do you pronounce that?
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Dear Jackie: The only plots you could ever have marred were those of rascals.
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