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#8733 - 11/01/00 08:04 AM Re: Words to describe people
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Welcome to you, blast! Did you choose that name because you expect to have one here? I know I do! May I recommend tsuwm's website? It sounds like it's right up your alley. It is his Worthless Words for the Day, at: http://members.aol.com/tsuwm/
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#8734 - 11/05/00 08:13 AM Re:Dyslexia
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	Helen, I am dyslexic too. Not to any great degree anymore, but it was hell when I was growing up. It still affects me, though, and that's why it takes me so long to write. My motto is: "Dyslexics of the world, untie!"
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#8735 - 11/08/00 01:02 AM Re: Words to describe people
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	In reply to: I believe it was H.L. Mencken who voiced a similar sentiment--he said he hated everybody equally. Or was it Mark Twain who said that? Or was it Mark Twain who said he loved mankind but hated people? I thought it was either Dean Swift who said he hated mankind but loved individual Toms, Dicks, and Harries, or somebody (Dr. Johnson?) who said it of Swift. I have been trying to trace the quotation but can't find it. Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#8736 - 11/09/00 11:37 AM Re: Words to describe people
of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park	Swift hated mankind? I thought he loved the irish-- stewed, roasted, or potted--Well maybe not potted, since they sometimes get that way themselves! Made into pies and sausages... (yes, i know it was satire! and have read the essay and not just the rants against it by idiots (or eegots!) who didn't have a clue!) _________________________ my other obsession
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#8737 - 11/09/00 12:13 PM Re: Words to describe people
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Bingley, a.m. I found this on tsuwm's link, Xrefer: Swift, Jonathan (Dean Swift) (1667 - 1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist I have ever hated all nations, professions and communities, and all my love is towards individuals...But principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. Letter to Pope, 29 September (1725), in H. Williams (ed.) Correspondence of Jonathan Swift vol. 3 ( (1963))
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#8738 - 11/10/00 12:04 AM Re: Words to describe people
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	Thank you, I knew somebody would be able to track it down. Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#8739 - 11/10/00 11:20 AM Dyslexia
Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/06/00 Posts: 2788 Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA	Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac? She tossed and turned all night wondering if there is a dog.
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#8740 - 11/10/00 11:26 AM Re: Dyslexia
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac? She tossed and turned all night wondering if there is a dog. Oh my God. (no irreverence intended!)
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