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*with a nod to tsuwm* It's sooo not fair to misquote, Jo, even though y'all do enjoy the extra syllable. What we say is "no fair", often accompanied by the crossing of arms and the stomping of a foot. We do not say "it's no fair." Fair enough? 
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...but seriously, in regards to "no fair", if one wanted to be pedantic about it (but who would?), one could point out that there is an obsolete/archaic noun sense of "fair" - meaning something that is fair or fortunate <fair befall thee -Shakespeare> from which comes the idioms "for fair" and "no fair". I think the former -- e.g., "you caught me for fair" -- is a British idiom, is it not?
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Fair colleagues,
Thank-you for your fairly useful responses. And fair comment, tsuwm, I will let this thread resume its fair course, but not before a parting addendum to Jackie's list of sayings, with a few from my list that didn't show up in hers:
1. A aggregation of individuals possessing expertise in culinary techniques vitiates the calefacient concoction.
2. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from hurling petrous projectiles.
3. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores sans interludes of hedonistic diverson renders John a hebetudinous stripling. (Just wanted to work that word in!)
4. Missiles of ligneous or petrous materiality may have the potential of fracturing my ossa but invidious appelations will ever remain ontogenetically innocuous, personally speaking.
5. Under no circumstances deposit your cylindrical tinted mixture of higher hydrocarbons in an environment that will result in the absorption of solar dissemination. (I'm a bit slow - need help on this one, please. Don't put your candle in the sun?)
And to end on a slightly different note (roll the music, Maestro!):
Propel, propel, propel your craft
Languidly down the solution
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically
Existence is but an illusion.
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Fair dinkum, Marty
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yup, that's my source all right.
but I'll be vapulated if I can find any confirmation that suritorous (or anything like it) relates to gold...
I don't know if you're just playing with us, tsuwm, but it would appear highly likely that suritorous is a typo for auritorous. What with "s" being next to "a" on the keybosrd, I find thst I mske thst ailly aort of miatske sll the time.
Mind you, I couldn't find a listing anywhere for auritorous either, except for an astrological one (are you a Scorpio auritorous?), but I know that your word wells are deeper than mine.
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Marty, I think you may be on to something (or on something) -- the sesquipedalian cliche in question would work fine substituting auriferous for suritorous... aomething reom thsn juat s opyt.
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tsuwm put: <vbg>
Did that mean you took the tangent with very bad grace?
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...substituting auriferous for suritorous...I'm glad it's panned out well then, tsuwm. 
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Since to assume is to make an ass of u and me, I will not assume that you were kidding. <vbg> is widely used in Usenet for Very Big Grin. Other variants iclude the plain old <g>, the <bfg>, the <bsg>, the <beg>, and the less common <seg> or, rarer still, the <bfeg>
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In reply to:
What's with this "no fair" business?
If it comes to that, the common "Not to worry" is also syntactically rather odd.
PS. Don't worry Jackie, I believe you. Mainly because I've also had posts unexpectedly double themselves.
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