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The song is over, but the malady lingers on.
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I enjoy your type of discouragement. Please amplify.
Its very difficult to discourage an omegatist, wwh. I'm not saying its impossible. Its just very difficult.
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The song is over, but the malady lingers on.Dear wwh: I can't amplify on that definition. Perhaps we are not so "indebted" to these omegatists after all. 
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ooh, I had not realised that sconce with a c comes in two flavo(u)rs, that make them incognate - tsuwm Has A Word For That
sorry, mav. I seem to have *overlooked this one. cleave/cleave and sconce/sconce are pairs of homonyms (and homophones).
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74 prior posts in this thread
30 by wordminstrel and plutarch (15 each)
i.e., 40% of the posts.
Take a hint, folks. Take any of several hints. You're evenly balanced; knock it off. You're spamming us.
(Post-edit: embarassing mis-statement of names corrected; thanks, dr. bill!)
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"30 by wordsmith and plutarch (15 each)"
Dear Keiva: When WORDSMITH comes down from Olympus to post
that will be cause for celebration, not caustic comment.
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The Greeks had a word for it:Clotho, Lachesis & Atropos, the Fates.. Clotho is a spinner, Lacheis a weaver, and Atropos the one who cuts the cloth.
Call for Atropos to cut the thread.
Fates, in Greek mythology, the three goddesses who determined human life and destiny. Known as Moirai in Greek and Parcae in Latin, the Fates apportioned to each person at birth a share of good and evil, although one might increase the evil by one's own folly. Portrayed in art and poetry as stern old women or as somber maidens, the goddesses were often thought of as weavers. Clotho, the Spinner, spun the thread of life; Lachesis, the Dispenser of Lots, decided its span and assigned a destiny to each person; and Atropos, the Inexorable, carried the dread shears that cut the thread of life at the appointed time. The decisions of the Fates could not be altered, even by the gods.
"Fates," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Dear Plutarch, You and me are clever people and clever people sometimes find associations where none exist...(mmm, what did I just say?)...anyway,yes,I am referring to your previous posts concerning "blovian" matters but those are not the case in this point, instead I ask...
(a) Don't you think there are already too many hurtfull words in our world without creating new ones?
(b) Just because you posed the opening question of this discussion you don't want to be called a "queryist" do you?
(c) Think about it, you don't want the sparse threads of this fine board to dangle endlessly without denoucement, do you?
(d) Can't we all just get along?
The answers to the questions above are yes,no,no,yes.
Ah Plutarch, I like to think that these wordthreads should be constructed as a programatic symphony by Richard Strauss- The Queryer introduces the theme by asking eternal questions of times and men. Then the Middling Folk bicker and snipe away at the hero and generally vary the theme without regard to propriety. Then comes the Closer, the Death Angel, the omegatist, who intergrates all themes into a wonderful soul-cleansing conclusion.
Yes Plutarch, we owe so much to these brilliant, hard-working, long-suffering fellow human beings who provide the "Last Word" to us slackers.
And now, since everything has been said that could be said, I would like to say Thank You from the bottom of my heart for you wonderful people for giving me, Milum, the last word.
[Warning] The curse of Calais will befall the writer of any post that appears benieght this post.XXX
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even under the durance of the "curse of Calais" (what the feck is that??), I cannot let these dangling threads and golden needles stand.
You and me are clever people
not as clever as us might wish.
(b) Just because you posed the opening question of this discussion you don't want to be called a "queryist" do you?
(c) Think about it, you don't want the sparse threads of this fine board to dangle endlessly without denoucement, do you?
your answers to these [no,no] could be perceived as presumptuous, but this is probably mitigated by inclusion of the nonce-word "denoucement".
everything has been said that could be said
this, really, begs the question.
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