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seconding my dear friend WW, here, Milum, there ain't no such thing as sweet scented ailanthus blossum.. the flowers smell very much like burnt starch.. (skilled cooks might not know this smell) Any one who has ever managed to leave potatoes or rice, or wheat cereal over a flame.. and had it burn, knows the smell.. its not quite as bad as burning rubber, but its pretty bad.
ill-scented greenish flowers is a pretty mild description.
and while the chinese do value them, they are considered weed trees in most parts of the US and about as welcome as kudzu.
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Oh-oh of troy, if you didn't like what I wrote about your dear friend wordwind, you are gonna hate what I'm gonna write about you and your good friend fishonabike over in Announcements and Information. But remember of troy, you know that I think that you are a fore-standing asset of this board, and as well, I think that the wit, charm, and, notwithstanding his anatomically impossible name, the intellectual honesty of fishonabike is apparent in every one, except maybe one or two, of his posts. But alas, I am a egg-sucking cur, and sucking eggs is my calling. ~  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~> 
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I am a egg-sucking cur
I'll say! promise to post something, and i scurry over to I & A, to see what treat is in store, and find nothing..
you're right! i hate what you said about me!
wicked man! makes a promise, get a girl all excited, and then fails to deliver! What ever did i do to deserve to treated so cruelly?
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wicked man! makes a promise, get a girl all excited, and then fails to deliver! What ever did i do to deserve to treated so cruelly? - of troy I'll tell you what you did Helen, down in Movement of Water in Miscellany you wrote a short piece on Little Neck Bay. Wicked man or egg-sucking cur, no creature with half a ear could write a disparaging word to the writer of that wonderful impressionistic prose. Well maybe I can. But it's going to take me at least a week to get mad again. [__________________________  ________________________]
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Wordwind--that's me!--got as many votes as the OED. Tra-la! And I didn't even cheat like the author of J, which is the letter eye incognito.
My definitions rarely get votes, although the asp voted for one of mine a while back.
Now what to do to celebrate? I think I'll take the OED out for a drink.
Bourbon regards,
WordWinner! forgetting my Southern upbringing to always conduct myself modestly
P.S. This was really an easy contest to figure out in retrospect. It hit me last week: retiarius. reticulated. netted. How did so many of us miss the "ret" part? Rhet Butler wasn't called "Rhet" for nothin'!
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