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 Thank you! As for the dead horses, I'm glad the links don't work. Don't need to see the massacres.
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I had guessed that flibbertigibbet was created for the musical, and only looked it up several hours ago, not expecting to find it. There'll be plenty of chances to use it if I can only memorize it.
My high school band director had a fondness for Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music arranged for band. I judged everything we played mainly by my instrument's parts, and found that I could handle the many rehearsals plus performances of The Sound of Music better than those of Mary Poppins. Had the sheet music included the lyrics, I could have improved my vocabulary. Reading the lyrics while counting rests, though, might have been jeopardous.
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As the stirrer-upper of this commotion, I'd just like to say that my, ahem, intent was to play on the colorful, evocative phrase gay repartee.
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Well, I wouldn't necessarily call you a stirrer, unless it was on purpose, which I can't tell. If you weren't trying to mix it up, then you were merely the catalyst, so don't lose any sleep (yeah, like you would!)... And actually, true to board form, the biggest commotion occurred over the use of "temerity" anyway! :0)
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and, knowing ASp as we do, temerity may, in fact, be very..
-joe (nary an ataraxic moment) friday
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Your italicized dictionary has taught me many new words.
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I had guessed that flibbertigibbet was created for the musical ... I trust you have been disabused of this notion.
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and, knowing ASp as we do, temerity may, in fact, be very..
-joe (nary an ataraxic moment) friday tsuwm. Bite me.. 
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Last edited by morphememedley; 06/15/2008 2:16 AM. Reason: Due to my replying to the wrong poster, I am cutting and repositioning my post.
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I observed that I had looked up the word. Did that observation inform your reply?
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It wasn't so much the fact of your having looked up the word, since I had no knowledge of where you looked it up, but from the fact of your having used the past perfect to describe that looking up.
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Okay, folks, this is getting almost creepy. About four times in the last few days, I've been experiencing weird coincidences of seeing or hearing something, then seeing/hearing the same thing in a different place. For ex., I was watching a TV show where a character said so-and-so would be the last man standing; then I turned to the listings, and there was the movie Last Man Standing.
Yesterday I was reading a magazine article about a woman who created something called Jibbitz, from the word flibbertigibbet; I come here today, and here it is!
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"You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone!"
Cue theme music.
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I have a similar experience once in a while, usually as a word or topic occurring from different sources within seconds. It's just enough to mess with my mind about probability or a cosmic jester, not enough for me to take it as a gift or a curse.
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I believe it was the Good Doctor A. who said, "I'd be surprised if these sorts of coincidences didn't occur."
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