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#175850 04/15/2008 2:43 AM
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Did anybody else not get it?

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This one?

cenotaph (SEN-uh-taf) noun

A tomb or a monument in honor of a person (or a group) whose remains are elsewhere.

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You mean not get it as in it didn't arrive in my email in-box or not get it as in didn't understand what it was all about?

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I for one am baffled but I am old and cranky and baffle easily


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it didn't arrive in my email in-box
Yes, olly, that one. Got today's, though. [shrug]

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Jackie, you might check your spam box, sometimes email she go errant on us.


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I've had them show up late, by up to a week.


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The webbernet tubes are cloggifying and ensuingly slowing down ... I predict that the demise of the Information Age will coincide with the total degeneration of the English Tongue™ into a single syllable uh (or er in the UK sales region). And, did I mention? it's darned nigh.


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Some spiritually meditative person may substitute aum for uh. Warning: Bits passing through a pipe concurrently with aum may be slowed, morphed, damaged, or destroyed by vibrations.

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And to think I've been blaming the filters!


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 Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
...the total degeneration of the English Tongue™ into a single syllable...it's darned nigh.

Teenagers are more advanced than us old school people in that direction, having reduced the vocabulary of teenglish to about five words:
Sorta Dunno Nothin

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Pookie, that'd be funny if weren't so sad! I sent the link to my friend whose son just turned 18.

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eh?

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Ha! \:D The scrabble board is an absolutely heartbreaking detail.

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Can you read it? I can't, even with stopping the movie.

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I think Branshea is referring to the random placement, rather than the words. 'Random', theres one the kids are using a lot down these parts.

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That's right Olly . Random, he's just fiddling around with those tiles. A great empty look though (let's hope it's just an act).


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