#45385
10/25/2001 8:20 PM
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#45386
10/25/2001 8:38 PM
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O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Let the curse of Calais fall where it may!
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#45387
10/26/2001 4:04 AM
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In reply to:
I followed you well till you hit begs the question....
Begs the question? Or: Raises the question.
this has been much discussed here in the past (ycliu);
suffice it to say: to beg the question = to take for
granted the matter in dispute, to assume without proof
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#45388
10/26/2001 12:17 PM
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#45389
11/03/2001 1:56 PM
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If you really want the last word in an argument, try saying "I guess you're right"
and guess what... it works! =)
Not always. I know plenty of people who won't take "yes" for an answer...
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#45390
11/03/2001 5:53 PM
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Yes? 
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#45391
11/03/2001 6:42 PM
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We have a surplus of omegatists, and a regrettable dearth of alphatists, who start posts the rest of us can reply to.
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#45392
11/03/2001 8:27 PM
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I'm a geek...
Elvis has left the building. Thank you and good night!
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#45393
11/03/2001 10:44 PM
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Elvis the Pelvis is gyrating somewhere to the screams of grisly groupies.
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#45394
11/04/2001 9:21 AM
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Nonsense. He's alive and well and living in obscurity in Juliet, GA. I've seen him! Or at least, a picture of him ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#45395
11/05/2001 9:04 PM
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Now wait one minute. Elvis lives in Kalamazoo. I know. Every day he comes in the downtown Walgreens and buys 4 Little Debbie Honey buns and a quart of OJ because "You gotta eat healthy, man."
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#45396
11/07/2001 2:02 AM
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We have a surplus of omegatists, and a regrettable dearth of alphatists, who start posts the rest of us can reply to.
Perhaps this is because the last wack at a driven nail is less risky than the first one, wwh. One wack too many only dents the board, unfortunate for the board and those who may appreciate the beauty of its grain, but a matter of no consequence to the heavy-handed pounder. On the other hand, the first wack at a nail calls for skill and some daring. If the hit is misguided, it is one's own thumb which suffers, not the board. Omegatists ruin a lot of good boards, wwh.
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#45397
11/07/2001 2:37 AM
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Old threads don't die, they just fade away.
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#45398
11/07/2001 3:08 AM
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#45399
11/07/2001 4:08 PM
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The Last Word
Matthew Arnold
Creep into thy narrow bed,
Creep, and let no more be said!
Vain thy onset! all stands fast.
Thou thyself must break at last.
Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Let them have it how they will!
Thou art tired: best be still.
They out-talked thee, hissed thee, tore thee?
Better men fared thus before thee;
Fired their ringing shot and passed,
Hotly charged - and sank at last.
Charge once more, then, and be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall!
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#45400
11/08/2001 2:54 AM
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Old threads don't die, they just fade away.
Old threads don't die, wwh, they become thread bare. Sometimes, they get old before their time, in which case they are thread barren.
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#45401
11/08/2001 3:05 AM
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The Last Word
Matthew Arnold
Creep into thy narrow bed,
Creep, and let no more be said!
Vain thy onset! all stands fast.
Thou thyself must break at last.
Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Let them have it how they will!
Thou art tired: best be still.
They out-talked thee, hissed thee, tore thee?
Better men fared thus before thee;
Fired their ringing shot and passed,
Hotly charged - and sank at last.
Charge once more, then, and be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall!
Alas! Poor Plutarch!
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#45402
11/08/2001 1:39 PM
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they get old before their time
Case in point.
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#45403
11/08/2001 2:02 PM
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And what used to be darned, is now damned.
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#45404
11/08/2001 2:25 PM
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okay, that's it! this has gone to a second (2nd) page, and I, for one, am not going to open it any more.
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#45405
11/08/2001 2:36 PM
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what used to be darned, is now damned
Aut pax aut bellum aut macula damnata
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#45406
11/08/2001 2:39 PM
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But, tsuwm, if you go away, we'll have one less wise one to needle us!!!
WW (warp and woof)
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#45407
11/08/2001 3:30 PM
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okay, that's it! this has gone to a second (2nd) page, and I, for one, am not going to open it any more.morituri te salutamus I for one will miss u if you go, tsuwm. Your poetry selections are absolutely inspired. 
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#45408
11/08/2001 3:43 PM
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I for one will miss u if you go, tsuwm.
Shame on you, Plutarch. You're just flattering tsuwm because he won't be around to read it.
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#45409
11/08/2001 3:47 PM
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You're just flattering tsuwm because he won't be around to read it.
One should never speak ill of the departed.
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#45410
11/08/2001 4:03 PM
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And what used to be darned, is now damned.
Darn the torpedoes. That was a depth charge, wwh. It took a while to sink in. You are a master of rhetorical ordinance. How many "wise men" can dance on the head of a needle, anyway?
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#45411
11/08/2001 4:09 PM
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How many "wise men" can dance on the head of a needle, anyway?
One fewer now that tsuwm is gone.
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#45412
11/08/2001 4:15 PM
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One fewer now that tsuwm is gone.
Do you suppose he will peek?
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#45413
11/08/2001 4:17 PM
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Do you suppose he will peek?
We are waiting with baited breath.
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#45414
11/08/2001 4:18 PM
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Gone, but not forgotten. Wanna bet he lurks?
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#45415
11/08/2001 4:20 PM
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we'll have one less wise one
That's OK, Dub Dub'. You'll still have a Fool.
And might I say it's nice to have Dr. Jeckyll and Igor back from his all too short hiatus.
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#45416
11/08/2001 4:25 PM
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we'll have one less wise one
We have many less wise ones.
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#45417
11/08/2001 4:34 PM
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In Tsuwmiam [I hope he would approve]
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
[Fade to black]
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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#45418
11/08/2001 4:46 PM
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Dear plutarch: I am close to the adventure you mention, which will assuage, not provoke rage.
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#45419
11/08/2001 4:48 PM
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Okay, back when this thread as at 50, and people were fighting of who would be last, i encourged us to go on... after all, we were only half way to 100 (and since i have my preference set to 99-- it has just now gone to page 2-- but now that it has, i am with tsuwm. I might not get the last word in this post.. (alas i have else where!) but this will be my last word here!
have fun you guys!
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#45420
11/08/2001 5:23 PM
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Just to tease:
Cross-patch,
Draw the latch.
Sit by the fire and spin.
Take a cup, and drink it up
Then call the neighbors in.
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#45421
11/08/2001 5:55 PM
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never speak ill of the departed
And when they come back?
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#45422
11/08/2001 5:57 PM
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Which one's the ventriloquist and which one's the dummy?
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#45423
11/08/2001 5:58 PM
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Nihil nisi bonum.....Where in hell have you been?
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#45424
11/08/2001 6:07 PM
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Do you suppose he will peek?
We are waiting with baited breath.
Dear Wordminstrel: Forgive me for just noticing that you are back again, an occasion for rejoicing.
Forgive me also for teasing you, by asking with what you bait your breath? Besides an alluring smile?
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