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10/23/2001 5:27 AM
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In reply to:
And, come to think of it, why are deltas called deltas in the first place? The mud seems to slide out on three, not four sides. Why aren't they called "gammas"?
The original river delta was the Nile delta, which, especially if viewed from Max's orientation, looks like the Greek letter.
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#45346
10/23/2001 8:03 AM
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You're more interested in depriving me of the last word than having the last word for yourself.
Hmmmm. I can see there is more to this compulsion than meets the eye.
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10/23/2001 8:11 AM
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I'll tell you what, Wordminstrel. If I can come up with a grander title for your affliction, will you leave me alone? You can become an Alphatar and blaze a new trail on your own thread.
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#45348
10/23/2001 8:16 AM
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Alphatar [thinking about it]. So what's my new diagnosis, Plutarch?
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#45349
10/23/2001 8:28 AM
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You are suffering from omegamania, Wordminstrel. That makes you an omegamaniac. You are a giant amongst omega pygmies.
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#45350
10/23/2001 8:33 AM
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omegamaniac! 
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#45351
10/23/2001 8:35 AM
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Does that mean you will go away and leave "the last word" to me?
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#45352
10/23/2001 8:38 AM
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Does that mean you will go away and leave "the last word" to me?
What do you think.
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#45353
10/23/2001 9:42 AM
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Hey, you two! Get a room! 
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#45354
10/23/2001 9:54 AM
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10/23/2001 12:55 PM
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I wish I could find the quote where Emily says...
by Emily you mean Emily Dickenson? or my daughter.. (she has a tee shirt that labels her "Queen of the F***ing Universe..and who knows she might be right..) or some other emily?
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#45356
10/23/2001 2:03 PM
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Bingley wonders How he got the idea that a sconce was a drinking vessel of some kind used for toasts?
Beats me. I allus thought it was a wall mounted candle holder.
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#45357
10/23/2001 2:06 PM
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10/23/2001 3:31 PM
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10/23/2001 3:34 PM
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10/24/2001 2:01 AM
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#45361
10/24/2001 10:53 AM
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How did I get the idea that a sconce was a drinking vessel of some kind used for toasts?
Because ...
from a website with information on Oxford University:
During the meal, a student may be 'sconced' by another student over some point of honour. The challenged must stand on the bench and drink a yard of ale in one go. Having succeeded, he may immediately return the 'sconce' if he wishes. These days, rugby and rowing dinners are more often the excuse for multiple sconcing!
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#45362
10/24/2001 2:16 PM
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#45363
10/24/2001 3:36 PM
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#45364
10/24/2001 3:59 PM
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This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes, again...
-Jim Morrison (The Doors)
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#45365
10/24/2001 4:49 PM
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No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes, again...
I feel like I'm being omegulated! 
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#45366
10/24/2001 4:56 PM
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I feel like I'm being omegulated! You're just getting what you deserve, Wordminstrel.
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#45367
10/24/2001 5:05 PM
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10/24/2001 5:20 PM
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#45369
10/24/2001 5:54 PM
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To reiterate and expand on Keiva's suggestion:
Get a chat room.
This is a bulletin board.
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#45370
10/24/2001 6:02 PM
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The venomous ASp bites again.
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10/24/2001 7:25 PM
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the Doors would have been a good end Agreed. This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes, again... -Jim Morrison (The Doors)
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10/24/2001 7:59 PM
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This sure as hell was a waste of time
Dear AnaStrophic. I agree with you. I have been doing my best to discourage these people. But they won't go away. Sometimes it is easier to start something than to stop it. Why don't we just ignore them? If no-one comes back, no-one will know if anyone had "the last word".
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10/24/2001 8:02 PM
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Dear plutarch: I enjoy your type of discouragement. Please amplify.
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10/24/2001 8:25 PM
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tsuwm quoted the final song of the Door's first album. Equally applicable is the equivalent in their second:
The music's over.
Turn out the lights.
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10/24/2001 8:33 PM
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The song is over, but the malady lingers on.
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10/24/2001 8:34 PM
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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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10/24/2001 8:53 PM
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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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10/24/2001 8:56 PM
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In reply to:
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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#45379
10/24/2001 8:57 PM
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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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10/24/2001 9:29 PM
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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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10/25/2001 12:13 PM
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10/25/2001 2:08 PM
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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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10/25/2001 7:13 PM
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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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10/25/2001 7:39 PM
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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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