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Men can be beautiful and more. They can even aspire to Faldage's heights.
(Will I? ... Should I? What would be the consequences? But it's soooo just an open invitation! No it's not, control yourself.)
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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They can even aspire to Faldage's heights.
I chose to ignore it on purely modest grounds or at least that's my rationale. She was parbly just being sarcastic.
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Roman kids had it rough. They were either pyew-ers, or pyew-ellas.
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pyew-ers, or pyew-ellas
Oh, pooh!
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Speaking of peeyew, I wonder how the use of pure-puer in tanning of leather was discovered.
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I would venture to say that the unifying factor when refering to women is not that we find them all beautiful or
desire them all, but that we lament and pity them and their treatment by our dominator culture. They
encompass all our sighs and aches. When we're young we mourn just one, later women in general.
No wonder men and women can't make relationships work. We're busy pitying each other.
"Monica grasped at another straw: perhaps what he felt for Amanda was pity? She hoped so, pity being, in her experience, a bar to love." (copyright me, 1995 or 1996, forget which, from a never-published short story)
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> We're busy pitying each other.
Well, that or putting one another on a pedestal.
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Well, that or putting one another on a pedestal.So true - I sit corrected! 
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I had never noticed this word before the starter post. I am struck by the look of it, it seems an ugly combination of letters that produces a most uninviting sound. What is the word for a word that sounds like it should mean the opposite?
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Dear Dody: I can't think of any words whose sound especially fits the meaning, of course
excluding onomatopoeia. Perhaps we should have stayed with the Frehch "beauté"
By contrast, I remember seeing a quote that "cellar door" was one of the most
beautiful sounding English word. I have never seen a beautiful cellar door.
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