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Ah my dear tsuwm, evoking a clever retort from you is like pulling hen's teeth (a southern saying), but when you come up with zingers like "expiscating", while not enough to make the ladies crème dans des leurs jeans (a french saying), it is well worth the effort. ___________________________________________________ 
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What was Mister tsuwm doing reading a October 12, 1967 letter to the New York Times Review of Books from an obscure author complaining about an unfavorable review of his latest obscure book written by an even more obscure book reviewer?Why, he was looking for Hogwash® words! 
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Okay--first, I agree with milum despite being offended by the remark about ladies that the writer probably meant what he wrote. I found the article, so we can have some context--not that it helps. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/11940I have tentatively concluded that somebody somewhere coined this as a word for a kind of "syndrome", as in "there's the equivalent of an a-- in it" syndrome. Possibly a synonym for stupidity. I just put assinity into the address bar in my internet window, and got "about 19" hits. Here are a couple that led me to this conclusion.
Another example of Tippen's assinity came when... , and some paragraphs down there is Unfortunately, our legal system does not allow a sentence for attorneys for acting like buttheads in court. http://hometown.aol.com/okamwoc/santee2.htm And,
...commentary on stupidity wherever we find it, from the perspective of a disenfranchised academic insider, viz., me. You'll read my take on current events and academic assinity. http://www.pitt.edu/~rice/Thanks, tsuwm; I really enjoyed this "research"!
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So is "asinine" is one ass more or one ass fewer than "assassinate"?
Or can it be both at the same time? (cross-thread to Schroedinger and his cat)
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I am surprised that nobody so far considered the expression holy assinity as a direct derivative of the expletive "holy ass" (similar or ironical to "holy cow"), suggesting unreflected veneration. If assinity here were replaced by asininity, the link would be destroyed. edit: don't google "holy ass" - I did it only afterwards, and  ..
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somehow that just makes me WANT to google "holy ass".... speaking of asses (or arses!) - I'm laughing mine off at the moment! thanks, wsieber! edit: I just googled....what a hoot! (it was probably funnier because of wsieber's post!) Where DO they come up with these site names?
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