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You can lay yourself down (you can lay anything down), but you must LIE down. "lay" requires an object. I have been mantled by my own evil twin. 
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...a good lay is not the same thing as a good lie (or at least not always) :)
However sometimes a good lie will lead to a good lay, n'est ce pas?
Not that I am speaking from experience or anything like that! (blushing madly)
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>I have been mantled by my own evil twin.
Well, join the club. I got in the first Dylan reference in this thread, which suffered a similar lack of acknowledgement.
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You sure did, Vernon! Went right over my head the first time...
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> lack of acknowledgement
But that's what your evil twin is here for, Vern :)
yrs, Obvious Odin & the Ronettes
sheeeeeeeeeesh, Minnesota Jews - couldja be a bit more abtruse next time, mite?!
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>evil twin.
Who? Or are you offering to fill the role? If so, thanks. Max told me you work in marketing, so you're halfway there already.
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> halfway there
and selling tickets for the grandstand ;)
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And here I thought I was honoring its subtlety by not mentioning it directly.
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And here I thought I was honoring its subtlety by not mentioning it directly.
Few of us can aspire to equal your deviosity.
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dixbie, another ROTFLMAO! (glad I had no coffee etc to spill on the keyboard)
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deviosity = 1,610 English pages on Google
deviosity = root beer up my nose
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>And here I thought I was honoring its subtlety by not mentioning it directly.
Forgive me, but I don't see that you mentioned it at all. You did quote the word Dylan from another person's post, though.
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Forgive me
Geez, Vern, lighten up.
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deviosity = 1,610 English pages on Google
deviosity = root beer up my nose
laughter = priceless
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Once again I am late to the discussion but here's my two cents. The "-oid" suffix is used as a diminutive, probably because the more "proper" diminutive suffixes (factette, factling, factin) sound funny. The Spanish diminutive "-ito" would work well here IMO but factoid gets the job done too.
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"And finally, despite what CNN thinks, a factoid is not a small, random fact. That would be a factlet or factette or, for our Latino friends, a factito." ~Matthew Alice, Straight from the Hip, San Diego Reader, December 2000. http://www.sdreader.com/php/ma_show.php?id=120200BO Boyo 
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How perfectly he destroys his own case by describing his own assertion: an assertion that is presented as a fact, that many people believe is a fact, but isn’t a fact.
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