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Your wish is my command.
BTW - near the top of this page is a line of choices "Forum List ... My Stuff ... Calendar ..." etc. Clicking My Stuff gets you some interesting options you might want to play with. (...but I digress...)
Third one down on the list is "Edit Preferences." Click on that.
The tenth one down is "Total posts to show on one page when viewing a post in flat mode: (default is 10)" and you can set it higher. I'm using the maximum of 99, so for me 1,000 posts is just 10 pages, not 100. I consider it much lower overhead.
So - here's the place to resume come Monday!
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INTERREGNUM
PRONUNCIATION:
(in-tuhr-REG-nuhm)
MEANING:
noun: The period between the end of a reign and the beginning of the next; a time when there is no ruler.
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From Latin, from inter- (between) + regnum (reign). Ultimately from the Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, lead, or rule), which also gave us regent, regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, surge, recto, regent, prorogue, arrogate, abrogate, regent, and supererogatory. Earliest documented use: 1579.
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INTERROGNUM - government by quiz show
AINTERREGNUM - this is no way to run the country
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...than never to have stuck at all.
BASILIC
PRONUNCIATION: (buh-SIL-ik, -ZIL-)
MEANING: adjective: Kingly; royal.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin basilicus, from Greek basilikos (royal). Earliest documented use: 1727.
NOTES: Many things are named after this kingly word: plants, animals, architecture, and more. Basil, the aromatic herb of the mint family, is named so because it was used in royal preparations for medicine, bath, etc. A large vein of the upper arm is called the basilic vein due to its supposed importance. The basilisk lizard (and the legendary reptile) are named for their crown-like crest...
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BASILI - an exhortation to seriousness: "Don't basili !"
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BASILISC - the critter in Harry Potter
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Sorry Doc, Happy April Fools Day anyway.  INTERREGNMUM - interregnum between the death of the king and his oldest son obtaining his majority that is usually ruled haphazardly by the son's mum. (1) add a letter ENTERREGNUM - hail the new King (2) change a letter INTERREGNU - to renew the inner gnu (3) subtract a letter ------------------------------ BASHILIC ( adj) - what Tyson was
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kingdom come
PRONUNCIATION:(KING-duhm kuhm)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The next world; heaven.
2. A place or future time very remote; the end of time.
ETYMOLOGY:
From the phrase "Thy kingdom come" in the New Testament. Earliest documented use: 1785.
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SINGDOM CAME - then left, without Luciano Pavoratti
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Hm. It hasn't come to the kingdom of Alaska yet.
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KINGDOME COME - the Seattle Seahawks are building a new stadium! See the Old Kingdome bite the dust here.
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KLINGDOM COME Klingon empire after budget cuts.
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KINGDOMO COME - an Official Summons to the Grand Vizier (much higher than the Major Domo)
KINGDOM COMP - what Prince Charming gets free for marrying the Princess
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KINGDOME COME - the Seattle Seahawks are building a new stadium! See the Old Kingdome bite the dust here. Wait! Just because the old Kingdome has been demolished it doesn't have to be the end of the world. If we pull together we can ressurect it. A new Kingdome can be built from the ruins. Seahawk lovers please send $25 dollars or more to... KINGDOME.COM - the official online website to restore Kingdome Stadium.
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royal road
PRONUNCIATION: (ROI-uhl road)
MEANING:
noun: An easy way to achieve something.
ETYMOLOGY:
According to the philosopher Proclus, when King Ptolemy asked for an easy way to learn, Euclid replied that there is no royal road to geometry. Royal Road was a highway in ancient Persia. Earliest documented use: 1793.
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When Euclid told King Ptolemy there was no royal road to geometry and King Ptolemy told Euclid to kiss his royal ass. Instead Euclid gave the King a...
LOYAL TOAD - a well-trained frog that eats the annoying flies flying about Ptolemy as he labours to understand geometry.
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ROYAL READ - a history of hemophilia through the ages
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TROYAL GOAD - to horsewink someone into allowing entry into their private space e.g. as the Greeks gained entry to inside the walls of the Troyals. 
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kingmaker
PRONUNCIATION: (KING-may-kuhr)
MEANING:
noun: A person or organization having great power and influence in the selection of a candidate for an important position.
ETYMOLOGY:
The term was originally applied to Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, as "Warwick the Kingmaker" during the Wars of the Roses. Earliest documented use: 1595.
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KINGTAKER - George Washington
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KINGFAKER an Elvis impersonator
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KLINGMAKER - the guy who invented Spandex
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MINGMAKER - Zhu Yuanzhang was the founder and first Ming of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu lead a small army of peasants against a million man army that marched to the wishes of tenured teachers, rich bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, and power-hungry governmentals who overtaxed the farmers and craftsmen and denied fundamental rights to everyone except thier brother-in-law. You know...much like today. 
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...and that's why he was called Ming the Merciless... (and I'm going back to the 30s serial!)
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KINKMAKER - Buster Crabbe's movies are not "kinky" ( although I bet many female Flash Gordon fans secretly wished that Flash would indeed flash) but the twists and turns of the convoluting plots would kink a knot in a Mingian's mind. 
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Indian Ocean 4/5/14 4:32pm CSNBC
CHINESE JUNK DETECTS PING IN INDIAN OCEAN
A chinese barge just reported recieving a series of pings that could be from the black Box of Malaysian Flight 360. The missing Boeing aircraft was equipted with a
PINGMAKER not the newly-developed pongmaker and the ships radioman said he was sure that he heard a "ping" and not a "pong".
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Now wouldn't that have made an elegant definition: PINGMAKER - Margery Flack and Kurt Weise
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ZINGMAKER - in the movies in the 30's it was believed that the heart had strings that went ZING! They were right. What with Obamacare the pacemaker will be replaced with a zingmaker. Unlike a pacemaker the zingmaker waits five minutes after your heart has stopped beating and then zaps it with a super jolt. This saves electricity. Now I will dig up the song "Zing Went The Strings of My heart" and we can have a nice sing-a-long here.  no luck
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"Meet Me In St.Louis," right?
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Dang, dang, dang. I was hoping for the Coasters but...
Anyway here are the lyrics...
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[Spoken] Never could carry a tune, never knew where to start
You came along when everything was wrong and put a song in my heart.
When you smiled at me, I heard a melody
It haunted me from the start
Something inside of me started a symphony
Zing! Went the strings of my heart
'Twas like a breath of spring, heard a robin sing
About a nest set apart
All nature seemed to be in perfect harmony
Zing! Went the strings of my heart
I still recall the thrill, guess I always will
I hope 'twill never depart
All nature seemed to be in perfect harmony
Zing! Went the strings of my heart
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"Meet Me In St.Louis," right?
Nope. "Listen, Darling," 1938. But Judy Garland, nevertheless. I see [hear] the movie has slightly different words, and two more verses.
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belfry
PRONUNCIATION: (BEL-free)
MEANING:noun:
1. A bell tower; also the part of a tower where a bell is hung.
2. Head. Usually in the phrase to have bats in the belfry, meaning to be crazy.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French berfrei, from High German bergan (to protect or shelter) and Old English frith (peace). Originally the term was berfrei and it was a siege tower or watchtower. Since it had bells, people began to think the term was belfry.
Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhergh- (high), which also gave us iceberg, borough, burg, burglar, bourgeois, fortify, force, bourgeois, inselberg, and sforzando. Earliest documented use: 1300.
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SELFRY - the universal right to take photographs of one's self, clothed, naked, or otherwise, and to paste these images on the world wide Internet.
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BELFRO – One of two directions that a hollow metallic reverberating device can swing, the other being belto.
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BELERY - a crunchy green typographical error that grows in stalks and is often chopped and added to chicken salad
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Well...I certaintly can't top that. How about you, Wofadoc? Edit: You are a sly one Mister Wolf.  O'well, I'll try to obfuscate an answer with geometric razzle dazzle and a bend in our rules. BELFROM?- is the question Sir Issic Newton asked, namely, When a bell swings to and fro which comes first...the to, or the fro?. Then two hundred years later Einstein answered his question... Mark the bell with a X on one side and pull the rope if the bell strikes the X that is the "Belto" and it comes first. The walk around to opposite side and ring the bell. See? Now the "Belfro" comes first. The words "Belto" and "belfro" are relative to where you stand. It's the Coriolis Effect. 
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AMBAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (AM-bij)
MEANING: noun: Ambiguity; circumlocution.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English ambages (equivocation), taken as a plural and the singular ambage coined from it. From Latin ambages, from ambi- (both, around) + agere (to drive). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ag- (to drive, draw, or move), which also gave us act, agent, agitate, litigate, synagogue, ambassador, agonistes, axiomatic, cogent, incogitant, exigent, exiguous, intransigent. Earliest documented use: 1374.
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And top of the morning back atcha. I don't get no badge 'cause I got... AMRAGE - to curse the rise of the morning sun. Grrr...
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AMBAG The small handbag QE2 carries to hold the
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arrant
PRONUNCIATION: (AR-uhnt)
MEANING:
adjective: Complete; thorough.
ETYMOLOGY:
Here's a word that has had both its spelling and meaning bent out of shape from use. It's a variant of errant (wandering). Earlier the word was used in the sense of wandering or vagrant, for example, an arrant thief or an arrant knave. Over time the word began to be taken as an intensifier so an arrant fool was no longer a vagrant fool, but a complete fool.
Via French, from Latin iterare (to journey), from iter (journey). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ei- (to go), which is also the ancestor of words such as exit, transit, circuit, itinerary, obituary, and adit. Earliest documented use: 1386.
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PARRANT the Queen in the hive.
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CARRANT - a mild form of road rage
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A R T A N T - small asian paintings of pastorial scenes on a single piece of rice.
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A R T A N T - small asian paintings of pastorial scenes on a single piece of rice.
Ah, so. That has 17 tiny images, no doubt, grouped into sets of 5, 7, and 5 ? ;-)
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