#44483
10/18/2001 7:35 PM
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Were I in England, I would merely ask if you wanted to go over my testimonials.
TEd
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#44484
10/18/2001 7:38 PM
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Of course that would depend on the position you were offering me.
>lots of people these days got for balls
Is that an indication that I could get to first base with you????
TEd
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#44485
10/18/2001 7:48 PM
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What! Another attempt to turn a thread into a sports thread! No way brother! Not first base, not any base.. I was making a crude attempt to ape Chaucer.. you do remember the tale of the farmer?
the farmer bragged "I have a big red cock! It wakes me every morning.." It was a fine cock... the finest fowl he had ever owned.. the brand name of the track ball is "the big red ball".
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#44486
10/19/2001 10:07 AM
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They aren't done with us yet. Wednesday I was in the silver store, looking for some girly-girl earrings, and there, bold as brass, was a hippopotomass. A pin for the lapel. Oh, hell. I haven't bought it, yet.
Enigma:girly-girl-girt, hippopotomass-hips
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#44487
10/19/2001 4:58 PM
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I browse OED2 or peruse "Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography" or Mencken's "The American Language"... but y'all knew that, didn't you.
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#44488
10/19/2001 5:09 PM
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this will be my one (and only) hippopotamine [animal adjective crossthread] post. a hundred lashes with the hippopotamus hide whip if it isn't.
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#44489
10/19/2001 5:32 PM
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I have been mildly surprize that no one, in all the hippaloo, has mentioned William, one of NY's famous hippo's. He is the (un) official mascot of the Met. (mus. of art) William, is a faience hippo that has been a favorite with Museum visitors since its arrival at the Museum in 1917. William is decorated with drawings of lotus blossoms and marsh plants which remind us of his favorite habitat, the shallow banks of the Nile River. A direct link to a version of william for sale can be found by going here.. http://www.metmuseum.org/store/index.aspand searching for William, to find him in his many available forms, (kids backpacks, men's ties, and everything inbetween!) It is a store, but it is a dot org store (which means everything is 20 to 50% more expensive than it would be anywhere else!  ) the end result is a very, very, very large URL. from the Met home page, you can find the original william (or a photo of him)
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#44490
10/19/2001 6:11 PM
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enthusiast
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all the hippaloo
I, for one, propose a hippopotamoratorium.
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#44491
10/19/2001 7:16 PM
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Heyyyy, I just found out something neat. You can open up several internet exporers at a time. Open them all to this Board and have a different category in each window. I usually only visit I&A, Q&A, Wordplay, Misc. So when one thread is loading in one window I can be reading an other in another window. When I post and answer, I go to another window to read there, and so on.
It saves so much time.
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#44492
10/19/2001 8:57 PM
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Well, there goes the bandwidth :)
TEd
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#44493
10/20/2001 12:33 AM
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#44494
10/21/2001 9:19 AM
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#44495
10/21/2001 12:43 PM
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#44496
12/26/2001 1:01 AM
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If our members in Australia have long waits the end of March/early April, here's something to do while waiting for the pages to load  Béla Fleck and the Flecktones will be appearing: 3/29 -3/30/02 East Coast Blues & Roots Festival Byron Bay, Australia 3/31 - 4/1/02 The Basement Sydney, Australia APRIL 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/3/02 The Prince of Wales Melbourne, Australia 4/5/02 The Gov. Hindmarsh Adelaide, Australia Check it out! (No, I don't get a commision!)
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#44497
12/26/2001 3:35 AM
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I'm trying to improvise a scheme for reading a magazine while waiting for window to change. It hasn't been as bad lately. I still can't tell when it is my ISP timing out on me, and when it is AWAD server not replying.
But with DSL the download time is negligible. But to read a magazine I have to push keyboard into storage space under monitor, replace it with bookrack to support magazine, and get my jointed arm with 8" circular fluorescent with five inch magnifying glass into position. That rigamarole gets tiresome. Where have all the alphatists gone?
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#44498
12/26/2001 11:07 AM
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The board has been blissfully fast these past few days. I wonder what's up? But those days that you wait and wait and wait--well, it's just not worth the effort of waiting. Could be a sign from the gods that we should be doing something else altogether:
living
walking
hunting
talking
writing letters to old friends
organizing those piles and stacks of disorder
loving...
I can imagine doing something other than writing here, but from where can we draw the propulsion to do so, I wonder? I know! Just go out and buy, at the after-Christmas sales, the Chicken Tiki Masala Cat®! Energy in amber rods!
DubDub
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