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Too many teens are pros these days.
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I just hope that any exchanges will be mutally enjoyable.Upon reflection, I have edited my earlier post, wwh. The allusion to Faldage was not just. That said "protean" has no more do with "proceptivity" than "promiscuous" has to do with "promise". "Proceptivity" is not coquetry, but an instinctive ritual enacted in earnest in service of the survival of our species. "Protean" misogynizes the ritual, casting "proceptive" women in the role of teases, morphing from mood to mood capriciously, without care or reason. I agree, wwh, let us improve on the term "Protean" signals. But not, with respect, in the direction you suggest, with emphasis on disinformation and duplicity. Let us celebrate "proceptivity", or, at least, enjoy it. But let us not defame it. Personally, I am very "pro" proceptivity ... and I think we should each do our bit to encourage it. 
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Hey, WM: Your word duplicitous, or duplicity is what I was trying to think of. Double meanings, with razzberry for failure to perceive the hidden promise. Proceptivity meaning the promised land is just that.But only for the brave.
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Proceptivity meaning the promised land is just that.But only for the brave.
Ah, yes, wwh. But, as the poet said:
"The brave deserve the lovely."
And yet, it is so much more than poetry. It is Nature's quintessential wisdom.
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Apparently more proverbial than poetic:
Only the brave deserve the fair.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
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Apparently more proverbial than poetic
Poetic, proverbial and melodic, too.
["Alexander's Feast" by Handel]
'Twas at the Royal Feast,
for Persian won,
by Philip's warlike son:
Aloft, in awful state,
the god-like hero sate
on his imperial throne:
His valiant peers were plac'd around:
their brows with roses and with
myrtles bound:
So shou'd desert in arms be crown'd.
The lovely Thais by his side
sate like a blooming eastern bride,
in flow'r of youth, and beauty's pride.
N°3 Aria Tenore & Coro
Happy, happy,
happy pair!
none but the brave,
none but the brave deserve the fair.
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Nice find WM. It eluded me. The dates on the proverbs suggest that they antedated Handel.
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Handel didn't speak English very well, so he stuck to the tunes. His main librettist was Charles Jennens, but the guy responsible for the lyrics in the Cecilian Ode Alexander's Feast was one John Hughes.
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Credit where it's due
Indeed, and credit back to you.
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<<<Australian McDonald's have a Toasted Cheese and Tomato Sandwich?>>>
Hang on a minute -Isn't there an award for taking a subject off thread the quickest and the furthest while still maintaining the most tenuous and exiguous connection? Why hasn't the Academy recognised etaoin's exceptional achievement?
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