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#171540 11/23/2007 2:45 PM
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A friend of mine inadvertently coined a wonderful new term when she wrote me about her holiday activities. She's in the midst of a massive organization of all her "stuff" & said it's a major "clearning" job - a portmanteau of cleaning & clearing. It'll find a lot of use in my vocabulary.

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Originally Posted By: arkaydy
A friend of mine inadvertently coined a wonderful new term when she wrote me about her holiday activities. She's in the midst of a massive organization of all her "stuff" & said it's a major "clearning" job - a portmanteau of cleaning & clearing. It'll find a lot of use in my vocabulary.


I like it. Once I do some serious clearning of the garage today, I'll take all that old horse tack out to the sharn.

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For what it's worth, which however might not be much at all, I agree also

Join me in our quest to propagate the colorful coin as well as the Type-2


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For what it's worth, which however might not be much at all, I agree also

Join me in our quest to propagate the colorful coin as well as the Type-2


I'll do my best. But, having no background in lexicology, I'd feel like such a phoncoinist.

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for what it's worth, here's a tool* you can use to clearn the sharn off your screen.

*only works in some brownsers

-ron o.

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Clearning - like the word but hate the activity.

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Originally Posted By: dalehileman
....

Join me in our quest to propagate the colorful coin as well as the Type-2


Who's this "our", daleh?

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for what it's worth, here's a tool* you can use to clearn the sharn off your screen.

*only works in some brownsers

-ron o.


I bet my wife; before months' end, I could get the Gratetsuwm to use her word 'sharn' in a sentence.
That was way too easy.
I think I'll have my breakfast- in- bed prize out in the sharn with Elzibar's Magnum, Buttermilk, and Hokey................. our new rooster. Wiki, Wiki, Wiki!!

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hmm, I thought it meant learning how to clean.


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hmm, I thought it meant learning how to clean a sharn.


That too!!

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here's a tool Okay, that took care of the inside of my screen; now what about the outside?

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here's a tool Okay, that took care of the inside of my screen; now what about the outside?


stand behind the computer.


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Originally Posted By: AnnaStrophic
Originally Posted By: dalehileman
....

Join me in our quest to propagate the colorful coin as well as the Type-2


Who's this "our", daleh?



You and me


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stand behind the computer

Standing gives better results than sitting?

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stand behind the computer

Standing gives better results than sitting?


not necessarily, it's just that I figured most people don't have a chair behind their computer.


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arkaydy #171667 11/27/2007 5:15 PM
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Originally Posted By: arkaydy
A friend of mine inadvertently coined a wonderful new term when she wrote me about her holiday activities. She's in the midst of a massive organization of all her "stuff" & said it's a major "clearning" job - a portmanteau of cleaning & clearing. It'll find a lot of use in my vocabulary.


Is it possible your friend's daughter and mine attend the same school? I just received an email invitation inviting parents/ students for help in a massive "clearning" in a neighboring community.


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