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Rather than yourself, you mean, Cap?
'Ere, you a peeping tom cat fish, shona?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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tom cat fishNow that would be a scent and a half. 
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Allow me to join the chorus of welcome backs, Dr. Bill! This place hasn't been the same without you, so please stick around 
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Thank you all. I'll be around. The board is doing so well, I can take it easy until I
get feeling ambitious again. Incidentally thanks to Jackie, I now have The Vocabula Review.
I even posted a word from it - scoptophil, adj. able to live in total darkness.
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scoptophil, adj. able to live in total darkness.
Live, as opposed to exist?
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scoptophil - able to live in total darkness[?]
but scoptophilia (or scopophilia) = voyeurism
(the spelling ‘scoptophilia’ dates from a mistake made by Freud's first translators.)
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Its already been said by everyone else, but its good to have you back Dr Bill, and as you have often said “we need all the talent we can get”. The board can't afford to lose yours, particularly as we need your focus on words to help keep us all in line! So here's hoping you’ll “be around” and “feeling ambitious” every day.
Cheers, dxb.
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a mistake made by Freud's first translators
That would, of course, have been a Freudian slip.
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Faldage was kind enough to PM me that I had put an extra "p" in front of first "o".
I went back to TVR, and the word given there was "scotophil", which I got right
once in Words from Medicine, but later goofed. I am not an admirere of Freud,
and didn't get word from him, so can't blame him for my error.
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