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CORDILLERAPRONUNCIATION: (kor-duhl-YER-uh) MEANING: noun: A chain of mountains or mountain ranges. ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish cordillera, diminutive of cuerda (cord), from Latin chorda (cord), from Greek khorde (gut). Earliest documented use: 1704. ______________________________ CORD ILL SERA - inoculants against umbilical cord disease see also CORD ILLER - mine is sicker than yours COR DILL SERA - inoculants against pickled heart COR-DRILLER - a cardiologist who practices TMR ( Trans-Myocardial Revascularization)
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BONDIEUSERIE
PRONUNCIATION: (bon-DYOO-zuh-ree)
MEANING: noun: A piece of banal religious art, devotional object, ornament, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From French bondieuserie (religious knick-knack), from bon (good) + dieu (god). Earliest documented use: 1941.
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BLONDIE USER, I.E. - someone who takes advantage of Dagwood Bumstead's wife, I mean to say
BON-DIEUSE RITE - ritual of Benign-Goddess worship
BOND E.U. SERIES - Ian Fleming also wrote of his debonair agent's adventures on the Continent
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PAREDOLIA
PRONUNCIATION: (per-eye-DOH-lee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The tendency to see a specific pattern or meaningful images in random stimulus.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Pareidolien, from Greek para- (along) + eidolon (image), from eidos (form, idea). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which also gave us wise, view, supervise, wit, eidetic, eidos, vidimus, previse, hades, guy, invidious, and vizard. Earliest documented use: 1962.
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PRE-IDOL IA - Des Moines before the Beatles' visit
PARSE "I DO," LIA - Lia, take apart that short sentence for me and tell me the meaning and function of each word
PARED ELIA - Charles Lamb has been peeled
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AKRATIC
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-KRAT-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Characterized by weakness of will that results in acting contrary to one’s better judgment.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek akretes (powerless), from a- (without) + kratos (power, strength). Earliest documented use: 1896.
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AGRA TIC - I get a twitch every time I see the Taj Mahal
AKMATIC - nickname of a Russian-made 7.62mm semi-automatic rifle
ARRATIC - unpredictable
OKRATIC - full of gumbo
PAKRATIC - given to collecting and saving useless baubles
UKRATIC - the British Public's expectations of Brexit
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SATYAGRAHA
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-TYAH-gruh-uh, sut-YAH-gru-ha)
MEANING: noun: The policy of passive nonviolent resistance as a protest against injustice.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) in India’s freedom struggle, from Sanskrit satyagraha, from satyam (truth) + agraha (determination, insistence), ultimately from the Indo-European root ghrebh- (to seize or reach), which also gave us grasp and grab. Earliest documented use: 1920.
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SATYAGRAHAM - the silent struggle to market a new cracker
SATYR! AGRA! HA! - A bordello next to the Taj Mahal? Who knew?!
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MOON SHOT
PRONUNCIATION: (MOON shot)
MEANING: noun:
1. A mission to the moon.
2. A highly ambitious, unlikely project with great potential impact.
3. In sports, an act of hitting or throwing a ball very high.
ETYMOLOGY: From moon + shot, from Old English sceot/gesceot. Earliest documented use: 1949. Also, there’s an earlier citation from 1873, in the sense, lit by moonlight.
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MOOR SHOT - Oh, no! Othello's been assassinated!
NOON'S HOT - If you don't like it, stay out of Arizona!
MORON SHOT - 0.5 cc of this stuff injected will turn you into a gibbering idiot
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LIGHT-YEAR
PRONUNCIATION: (LYT yeer)
MEANING: noun:
1. A unit of length equal to the distance traveled by light in one year in a vacuum, about 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion km.
2. Very far, in distance or time.
ETYMOLOGY: From light, from Old English leoht + year, from Old English gear. Earliest documented use: 1888.
NOTES: A light-year is a unit of distance -- there’s no such unit as a heavy-year (nor is there a dark-year). To get a light-year’s worth of frequent-flier miles you’d need to travel between New York and Moscow only a little over a billion times.
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MIGHTY EAR - what it takes to hear a pin drop
FLIGHT-YEAR - how long a trip to Mars in an elliptical orbit would take
EIGHT-YEAR - a long-term car lease
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ROCKET SCIENCE
PRONUNCIATION: (ROK-it sy-uhns)
MEANING: noun
1. The science of rocket design, construction, and flight.
2. Something requiring advanced knowledge and intelligence.
ETYMOLOGY: From Italian rocchetta, diminutive of rocca (spindle, distaff) + science, from Latin scientia, present participle of scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us schism, ski, shin, adscititious, conscientious, exscind, nescient, scienter, and sciolism. Earliest documented use: 1931.
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RACKET SCIENCE - for the very best in tennis equipment
POCKET SCIENCE - specialized knowledge possessed by pool hustlers
SOCKET SCIENCE - a wrenching field of study
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LIFT-OFF
PRONUNCIATION: (LIFT-of)
MEANING: noun:
1. The action of being airborne, such as that of a rocket, aircraft, etc.
2. The launch of a project, an initiative, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse lypta, from lopt (air) + off, stressed variant of the word of. Earliest documented use: 1907.
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LIFT ORFF - to adapt music from The Planets and claim you wrote it
LIFE TOFF - born with a silver spoon, and still rich and elegant
SIFT-OFF - the finals of the Pillsbury Flour contest
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SPACE CADET
PRONUNCIATION: (SPAYS kuh-det)
MEANING:\ . noun:
1. A trainee astronaut.
2. A person who behaves strangely or appears to be out of touch with reality.
ETYMOLOGY: From Robert Heinlein’s 1948 novel Space Cadet. Why the second sense of the term? The book inspired TV and radio shows and comics and the term became popular. Eventually, the meaning shifted and now a space cadet is one who is spaced out or has their mind in space, probably as a result of drug use. Earliest documented use: 1948. Other words coined by Robert Heinlein that have become words in the English language are grok and waldo.
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PACE CADET - Freshman in a New York city university (it also has a campus in Westchester)
APACE CADET - energetic, bustling trainee
SPACE CARET - editors' symbol for "insert a two-en quad here"
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PYTHAGORIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (puh-THOG-uh-ryz)
MEANING: verb intr.: To philosophize or speculate in the manner of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans.
verb tr.: To convert (a person or thing) into another.
ETYMOLOGY: After Pythagoras, Greek philosopher (c. 570-495 BCE). Earliest documented use: 1603.
NOTES: Pythagoras is best known for the Pythagorean theorem, although it was widely known before him. Pythagoras was ultimately a philosopher with wide interests and had many followers. He also believed in the transmigration of the soul which resulted in the second sense of the word pythagorize.
Did you know there’s a Pythagoras Day? It doesn’t occur every year. Last one was on 8/15/17 (8² + 15² = 17²). Next will occur on 12/16/20 (12² + 16² = 20²). Start planning the celebrations now!
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MYTHAGORIZE - to sort out the shenanigans of the denizens of Mount Olympus
PYTHAGONIZE - to be in great distress over the white part of an orange rind
PHTHAGORIZE - to spread tuberculosis through the Greek marketplace
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MALAPROP
PRONUNCIATION: (MAL-uh-prop)
MEANING: verb intr.: To misuse a word by confusing it with a similar-sounding word, producing a humorous effect. For example, “pineapple of perfection” for “pinnacle of perfection” (from the play The Rivals).
ETYMOLOGY: After Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Sheridan’s play, The Rivals (1775), who confused words in this manner. The name Malaprop is coined from French “mal à propos” (inappropriate). Earliest documented use: 1959.
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MAULAPROP - when you run your outboard motor in water that's too shallow
(see also MAILAPROP - to order a replacement from Sears-Roebuck)
MAL A PREOP - sick, and scheduled for surgery
GALA PROP - an easel with the sign pointing you to big party
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Restorize- create and maintain a state of peace and easy feeling
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Welcome, Littldrop, nice to have you with us!
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NESTORIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (NES-tuh-ryz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To fill someone with the idea of being very wise.
ETYMOLOGY: After Nestor, king of Pylos, who was the oldest and wisest of the Greeks and served as a counselor in the Trojan War. Earliest documented use: 1612.
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NEST PRIZE - for building the bestest place ever for a birdie to lay eggs !
ONE-STORIZE - to divest of all branch stores
NEXTORIZE - nosy neighbors (say it out loud!)
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Dewitt
Do witt - motivational remark
De mitt! - nursery acceptable language
Pew it- tactical theatrics
😊 thank you, wofahulicodoc
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DEWITT
PRONUNCIATION: (di-WIT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To kill by mob violence.
ETYMOLOGY: After brothers, Johan and Cornelius De Witt, Dutch statesmen, who were killed by a mob on Aug 20, 1672. Earliest documented use: 1689.
NOTES: Today’s word has a better-known synonym: lynch. While the word lynch is coined after the perpetrator of such extra-judicial killing (Captain William Lynch), the word dewitt is coined after people who were the object of such violence.
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DEWI TIT - after frolicking in the morning grass, the tiny songbird is wet
DE WIDT - side-to-side dimension, analogous to the up-and-down dimension (de hite)
DEE ITT - another cousin in the Addams Family
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ALADDINIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-LAD-uh-nyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To magically transport or transform someone or something.
ETYMOLOGY: After the title character of the story Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. Earliest documented use: 1848.
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A LAD: DIN, IRE - prize-winning ultra-short story about a noisy boy who makes everybody angry
SALAD DINIZE - eat only lettuce and tomato and cucumbers
GAL, ADD IN IZE - ya gotta use yer peepers better to communicate yer feelings
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Paladdinize- knightly constitutional
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Paladdinize - knightly constitutional 
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Do you mean Bret or Bart the Maverick bros?
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Paladdinize - knightly constitutional Non linear thinking: Paladin- knight 101 Dalmatians- evening constitutional UK- Cockney rhyming slang Knight- evening/night Bo Peep- sleep Ize- eyes/peepers I usually check my word sites at night
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ERE
PRONUNCIATION: (air)
MEANING: conjunction: Before (earlier in time).
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English aer (earlier). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ayer- (day, morning), which is also the source of early and erst (as in erstwhile). Earliest documented use: 822.
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MR. E. - a puzzlement
R. R. E. - a mechanical model of the Solar System
T. R. E. (preferably with a German accent) - a hypothesis, or (after a while) the best explanation we have for a set of observations
RE - That's about it.
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Ere
LRE- lesson, ready-to-educate. A self-contained, individual school ration.
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ECCE
PRONUNCIATION: (EK-ay, ECH-ay, EK-see)
MEANING: interjection: Behold! (used to call attention to someone or something).
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ecce (see, behold). Earliest documented use: 1598.
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ECCH - What, me worry?
'ENCE - elsewhere, in medieval English-with-a-Cockney-accent. Ex: "Get thee 'ence"
DECCE - many Italian record companies (cf. lira, pl. lire)
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Pinim- "stick it to the man"
Vinim- mini sized vitamin
Linim- an ocean in a drop
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MINIM
PRONUNCIATION: (MIN-uhm)
MEANING: noun:
1. The least amount of anything.
2. In music, a half note.
3. A unit of liquid measure, equivalent to 1/60 of a fluid dram (about one drop of liquid).
4. In calligraphy, a short vertical stroke, as in the letters i, m, n, u.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin minimus (smallest, least). Earliest documented use: 1440.
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MINT I.M. - intramuscular flavoring
MR NIM - champion at taking-away game
MINI-MD - Doogie Howser
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Mumdrum- mother's heartbeat for newborns
Wurdrum- white noise shusher machine
Purdrum- kitten noise maker with attached, fine grit, sandpaper tongue
Hurdrum- countless sheep jumping over the moon, comes with flokati
Surdrum- good knight, fast asleep
Nurdrum- logo maniac
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MURDRUM
PRONUNCIATION: (MUR-drum)
MEANING: noun:
1. A murder, especially in secret.
2. A fine paid for a murder.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin murdrum (murder), from Old French murdre (murder). Earliest documented use: 1290.
NOTES: Before England went around colonizing the world, they were colonized/conquered by Romans, Angles/Saxons/Jutes, Vikings, and Normans. The locals vented by killing their new lords. So the law came down that any murder of a Norman was to result in a heavy fine for the whole village. On the other hand, if the person killed was an Englishman or an Englishwoman: pas de problème. This fine was known as murdrum.
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CURD-RUM - a beverage made from fermented milk
SUR DRUM - the cymbal on top of the Bass Drum in l'Orchestre de Paris
MUR DEUM - the Sacred Wall in Rome
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UNBIRTHDAY
PRONUNCIATION: (uhn-BUHRTH-day)
MEANING: noun: A day other than one’s birthday.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) in Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Earliest documented use: 1871.
NOTES: Today is a very special day. Most of our readers (about 99.7% of you) have their unbirthday today. A very happy unbirthday to you! How are you celebrating your unbirthday?
And if you happen to have your birthday today, well, a happy birthday to you!
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SUNBIRTHDAY - the Winter Solstice
UNMIRTHDAY - April 15, for most of us, the day U.S. Income Tax returns are due
UNGIRTHDAY - I just lost 40 pounds!
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RUNCIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (RUHN-suh-buhl)
MEANING: noun: A utensil that is a combination of a fork and spoon. Also known as a spork.
adjective: Shaped like a combination fork and spoon.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined as a nonsense word by the poet Edward Lear (1812-1888) in 1871.
NOTES:A runcible or spork is the love child of a spoon + fork, but that’s not what the word meant in the beginning. Edward Lear coined the word in the poem “The Owl and the Pussycat”:
...They dined upon mince, and slices of quince
Which they ate with a runcible spoon...
What runcible meant was left to the imagination of the reader. Lear later used the same word to describe other things: cat, hat, goose, and wall. Eventually, the word took the sense of a spoon that can do the job of both a fork and a spoon
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RUN BIBLE - The Compleat Guide to Marathon Racing, by Alberto Salazar
RUNNIBLE - a long solid suit of cards in Bridge
RUNCI BLUE - a distinctive color popularized by Italian designer Giacomo Runci
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CHIRALITY
PRONUNCIATION: (ky-RAL-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: The property of not being superimposable on its mirror image: dissymmetry.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by physicist, engineer, and mathematician William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, also known as Lord Kelvin (1824-1907). From Greek cheir (hand). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghes- (hand), which also gave us cheiromancy/chiromancy (palmistry), surgeon (literally, one who works with hands), and enchiridion (handbook). Earliest documented use: 1894.
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CHORALITY - singtogetherableness (see also CHOIRALITY)
CHIRALITE - an ore of meteoric origin
CHIRA LAITY - non-clergy in a Latin American city
CHI REALITY - there is a 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet
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Chireality- 1) falling inn love (totally stolen from movie on Netflix) 2) creative tension "To explain the creative tension concept further, Fritz came up with a metaphor. Imagine yourself stretching a rubber band between your right and left hand. Your right hand represents your ‘vision’ and your left hand represents your current reality. The greater the gap between them, the greater your creative tension will be." ( https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/what-creative-tension-and-how-could-it-help-you) Chairality- a libation of one part chai and one part espresso taken before battle, inducing a signature call. (Xena's war cry)
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ESEMPLASTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (es-em-PLAS-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Having the capability of molding diverse ideas or things into unity.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), apparently inspired by German Ineinsbildung (forming into one). From Greek es- (into) + en, neuter of eis (one) + plastic, from Latin plasticus (related to molding), from Greek plastikos, from plassein (to mold). Earliest documented use: 1817.
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'E'SEMI-PLASTIC - 'e'll deform, but only if you pull 'im slowly
EJEMPLA STIC - a long skinny piece of wood, for example
ESTE M-PLASTIC - this Spanish explosive compound
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Esimplastic- Lucy at the plastic factory
¡Esemplistic!- Ricky Ricardo's way of saying, "She's Nuts."
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Gonzo-[video:youtube] https://youtu.be/kzyo90D2ZAA[/video]
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GONZO
PRONUNCIATION: (GON-zo)
MEANING: adjective: Having a bizarre, subjective, idiosyncratic style, especially in journalism.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Bill Cardoso, journalist and author, in 1971. It was first used in a published work by Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author (1939-2005). Perhaps from Italian gonzo (simpleton) or Spanish ganso (dull or fool, literally a goose). Earliest documented use: 1971.
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GOON ZO - a zany old-time radio show featuring Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine.
GONZOO - the Ardastra Gardens, Zoo and Conservation Centre in Nassau (Bahamas), alas, after recent Hurricane Dorian
GONDO - the guy who leers from a pole-propelled boat in Venice, singing "Santa Lucia"
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EUSTRESS
PRONUNCIATION: (YOO-stres)
MEANING: noun: A positive, beneficial form of stress.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the endocrinologist Hans Selye (1907-1982). From Greek eu- (good) + stress, from shortening of distress or from Old French estressei (narrowness or oppression), from Latin strictus, from stringere (to bind tight). Earliest documented use: 1950s.
NOTES: Eustress is happy stress. Some examples of eustress are excitement at starting a new job, an upcoming wedding, etc. In general, mild stress works as eustress, bringing motivation and spurring action. Too much stress results in distress.
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EDUSTRESS - the SATs
EUSTLESS - of no value whatsoever
EUSTRUSS - what to do if you get a hernia
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Joined: Aug 2019
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stranger
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stranger
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Seustress- Whoville whodo
Thanks for the giggle
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
Joined: Oct 2010
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Too much stress results in distress. Or should that be 'dystress'?
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