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Were I in England, I would merely ask if you wanted to go over my testimonials.
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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????
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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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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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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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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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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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all the hippaloo
I, for one, propose a hippopotamoratorium.
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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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Well, there goes the bandwidth :)
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