#44590
10/14/2001 5:08 PM
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Wordwind, this is good!  Brings to mind another question: Is a Plutarch plutish? 
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#44591
10/15/2001 4:27 AM
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Is a Plutarch plutish? No, but he has been brutish. [Ref. "Horrors!" thread]
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#44592
10/16/2001 4:37 AM
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And when do we get his biography?
Bingley
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#44593
10/16/2001 11:05 AM
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Bingley, remembering my own experiece, I'd say that by the time one attains the journeyman rank one feels familiar enough with board-practices to author a bio. And Plutarch is now quivering on the verge of that rank. (hint, hint)
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#44594
10/16/2001 11:10 AM
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Jackie started this thread asking, "Is a radish rootish?" Leading to the further question, "Is our ravishing requester raffish?" 
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#44595
10/16/2001 11:28 AM
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"Is our ravishing requester raffish?" Hmm--I can't quite tell. Wordwind, are you?
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#44596
10/16/2001 3:43 PM
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Nice dodge, J, but that question was addressed to you!
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#44597
10/16/2001 5:03 PM
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Dag nab it, can't get away with anything around here. But I can try: which definition did you mean, sir?
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10/16/2001 5:27 PM
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10/16/2001 5:43 PM
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raffish: characterized by a carefree or fun-loving unconventionality; rakish.The play of the last word with "ravish" and "raffish" surely rendered clear my intended definition! Ogden Nash: "Miss Rafferty, in taffeta / Grew definitely raffisher / And less and less stand-offisher."
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#44600
10/16/2001 6:24 PM
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Jackie, wearing tafeta
Fears that folk will laugh at her,
Dear Jackie, no one's after ya' ...
Just answer the darn question!
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#44601
10/17/2001 12:57 AM
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Oh, NOW I get what the heretofore-mysterious ref.'s were in some private messages! Well, let me just say that my heretofore-posted posts have surely rendered clear my intended answer! Nice verse, wow.
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10/17/2001 1:02 AM
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10/17/2001 1:13 AM
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No, no, dr. bill, you relish reddish raddishes.
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10/17/2001 8:35 AM
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10/17/2001 4:04 PM
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Presuming that said "dish" was indeed both ravishing and rakish (doubtless in a MaeWestian sense), and was viewed with relish by the raffish doctor, I can only say,
Down, boy!
"Physician, heel thyself!"
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10/18/2001 10:45 PM
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The only time I ever got ravished was by chaperone who came with student nurses to a party.The first time I ever encountered a furor coeundi greater than my own.
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