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#39445 08/24/2001 2:05 PM
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What kind of a post can be made out of this word? We have had enough "mancy" threads. Best I can do is write it chi-romancy, and remark that though this is the machine age, love is still made by hand.


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A day without a week is like orange juice without an orchard.


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And a non-sequitur a day keeps the med-flies away.


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Med flies are in Animal Safari


#39449 08/24/2001 3:30 PM
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"Love is still made by hand"?? Only at the risk of insanity or growing hair on your palms, which makes chiromancy difficult. Hence the invention of Graham crackers.


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And of course, there are now very effective mechanical pornotheses, (neologism from prosthesis). And the recently reported orgasmotron. But forget not the importance of a digital delectation of the G spot.


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>graham crackers

man, you are going to give smores a bad name!


#39452 08/24/2001 4:49 PM
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Have you noticed that none of our lovely ladies* have yet posted in this thread?

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*adjective redundant


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When are four hands busiest?


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And of course "made by hand" vs. "machine age" merely emphasized that anything so marvelous should not be mass produced.


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"made by hand"

In an interesting linguistic twist I have heard hand made contrasted with manufactured.


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Howcome the CP activists have not outlawed "man-ufactured"? Perhaps "homofactured"?


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CP activists

Personufactured in Gerpersony.


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Hey, Keiva! where are the ladies now? The thread is decent now.


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Hey, Keiva! where are the ladies now?

Don't ask me: wopersons never followed me around.

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And I fully expect a "stranger" with the handle Master Bates to post here at any minute! As an historical interpreter who does a 19th century schoolmaster dubbed Master Peacock it occurs to me that since all the male teachers were called Master followed by their last name, a fellow named Bates couldn't very well be a schoolmaster, could he?
And since we're in full stroke with hand words how did handle come to mean an alias? Could it have had something to do with short-wave "ham" radio operators?


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>how did handle come to mean an alias? Could it have had something to do with short-wave "ham" radio operators?

Not sure, but it does prove that CBs were around a LONG time ago. After all, Jesus Christ is the Messiah's handle.

Just like Hondas are mentioned in the Bible. And, like many things in the Bible, they were a lot bigger than they are now. Jesus and his apostles were all in one Accord!



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one Accord
aarrrrgghhh! As they say in Spain: Esta No-va!



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It's time for dinner, so you boys put away your toys now and come in from playtime. And be sure to wash your hands.

Land o' Goshen; go away for a couple of days and come back to a Circle Jerk. Who won, anyway?


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Yes, Mother.


#39465 08/26/2001 2:11 AM
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Okay, Sparteye!...what's on the menu?


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Keiva writes "wopersons never follow me around."

You mean woperchild-of-either-sexs, right?



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