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#37291 08/03/01 01:07 AM
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Yes, congratulations, consuelo.

Maxomancy (alt. def.): the sudden and overwhelming urge to worship a Quordlepleen.




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#37293 08/03/01 04:13 AM
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Now, Maxie, I didn't specify that it was you, did I?
I might just happen to know of one or two other Quordlepleens...what's that, Zaphod?


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#37295 08/04/01 10:34 PM
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bibliomancy: fortunetelling by random Bible-passage picking.
aeromancy: fortunelling by air or wind; weather forecasting.
ophiomancy: fortunetelling with snakes.
mazomancy: fortunetelling by a nursing baby (Greek mazos = breast; see mazophilous).
xenomancy: fortunetelling by studying the first stranger who appears.
More to follow.


#37296 08/05/01 02:21 AM
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axinomancy - divination by means of an axe-head

makes me want to aks how it is executed


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capnomancy - divination by smoke

"they asked me how I knew
my true love was true..."




#37298 08/05/01 02:27 AM
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Perhaps you will all grant me clemency for adding that Clemancy as a woman's name made its rounds a few hundred years ago.


#37299 08/05/01 02:38 AM
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if you're going to be like that, I'm going to throw out aldermancy.

*<8^)


#37300 08/06/01 04:10 PM
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makes me want to aks how it is executed


and Lizzie Borden day was just this past Saturday ...

Lizzie Borden took an axe
Gave her father forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her mother forty-one

And she divined: that if you are a wealthy, prominent Victorian maiden who hires as defense counsel the former Governor of the state who appointed to the bench one of the judges presiding at your trial, you will be acquitted.


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