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#112152 09/15/2003 12:28 PM
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And "venery" is the venerable veneration of Venus.


#112153 09/17/2003 8:44 PM
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Oh, let's do talk about ologies some more!

One of my kids asked me today whether I knew about:

thugonomics.

Well, that's not an ology at all, I realize, but I thought I'd slip it in here.

But back to areology, wwh. What's your favorite ology? Mine is herpetology. One must refer to a herpetologist audibly when walking through the reptile house at zoos. It's simply a requirement.


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... and I thought, before I read the definition, that "areology" was soil science. Go figger.


#112155 09/17/2003 11:01 PM
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> One must refer to a herpetologist audibly when walking through the reptile house at zoos. It's simply a requirement.

But what if the reptile housess in zooss where one livess do not have any snakess?


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... and I thought, before I read the definition, that "areology" was

about Pottery :)


#112157 09/17/2003 11:15 PM
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or the study of nipples.



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#112158 09/18/2003 7:04 PM
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or the study of nipples.

But all the articles only discuss their subject in a round-about way.


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Amd a tiny long tailed critter can quadruple the area and
brown them a bit.


#112160 10/04/2003 5:31 PM
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Well, you lost me, Bill. Maybe you can explain the longtailed critter in a PM.

However, onward with areology and another ology that is somewhat related:


aretalogy
n. - relation of wonderful deeds of a god or hero.

Although aretalogy isn't exactly an ology, am it.




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