#45425
11/08/2001 9:27 PM
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never speak ill of the departed And when they come back?
Never speak ill at all, Faldage. We're just here for the fun of it. One tries to defend oneself when one is pilloried in a public posting, that is to be expected surely. There are gentler ways to dissuade than to disparage, don't you think? In any case, I miss tsuwm's poetic interventions. Tsuwm, Tsuwm, forgive poor Plutarch. Poor, imperfect Plutarch. Pluperfect Plutarch.
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#45426
11/08/2001 9:43 PM
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Forgive me also for teasing you, by asking with what you bait your breath? Colgate with bromide. 
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#45427
11/08/2001 11:49 PM
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Dear Wordminstrel: On a Colgate University site, I found this: Seaweeds use vanadium bromoperoxidase, in the oxidation of bromide, as a defense mechanism against predators.
How much seaweed do you have to eat?
I went back and was not able to find out what value bromide would have associated with a toothpaste.
I found a site about aphthrous stomatitis, but the author was a real kook. I was involved in early dental fluoride programs fifty years ago. Sadly the same crowd of nuts that were against it then have been reincarnated and still using the same stupid sick arguments Let's not have a thread about that!.
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#45428
11/09/2001 2:47 AM
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I, like Tsuwm, choose to announce my intent to never post on this thread again. Furthermore I would like to urge all other members of good breeding to do the same. Let us each post on this thread our pledge never to post on this thread ever again. Unless, of course, someone posts something really stupid or some smart ass posts something just to have the last word.
Milum.
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#45429
11/09/2001 8:17 AM
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A link, a link, I do like a link!You hum it I'll play it http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/belvedere/226/carnival.htmI've just noticed this thread, so I decided to post to say that I will not post here. You are quite right, it is too long, far too long , far too ..., far ...
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#45430
11/09/2001 1:32 PM
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Furthermore I would like to urge all other members of good breeding to do the same. ...
Milum...
And what about members of poor breeding?
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#45431
11/09/2001 1:49 PM
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Seaweeds use vanadium bromoperoxidase, in the oxidation of bromide, as a defense mechanism against predators.
Your pith is only surpassed by your substance, wwh. Actually, I was thinking of methyl bromide.
To wit (from Google):
Methyl Bromide Challenge
There is no known single alternative fumigant, chemical, or other technology that can readily substitute for methyl bromide in efficacy, low cost, ease of use, wide availability, worker safety, and environmental safety below the ozone layer. Research by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) indicates that multiple alternative control measures will be required to replace the many essential uses of methyl bromide.
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#45432
11/09/2001 1:51 PM
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"What, never? No, never. What, Never? Well, hardly ever."
Dear Wordminstrel: Baiting your breath with methyl chloride could swiftly abate your breathing.
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#45433
11/09/2001 1:56 PM
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I, like Tsuwm, choose to announce my intent to never post on this thread again. Furthermore I would like to urge all other members of good breeding to do the same.
You should have turned the other cheek, Plutarch.
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11/09/2001 2:01 PM
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Does anyone remember the name for the rhetorical device for saying what you are not going to say?
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#45435
11/09/2001 2:04 PM
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Does anyone remember the name for the rhetorical device for saying what you are not going to say?
Yes.
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#45436
11/09/2001 2:06 PM
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You should have turned the other cheek, Plutarch.
I guess I'm hanging by a thread here, Wordminstrel. But I am chastened by all this censure. I solemnly declare that I will never again [in this thread] return an insult with heart-felt praise. (I have a weakness for "The Doors" and sometimes it gets the better of me.)
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#45437
11/09/2001 2:27 PM
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Does anyone remember the name for the rhetorical device for saying what you are not going to say?
I don't know, wwh. But Shakespeare's Marc Anthony said it best: "We came to bury Caesar not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar."
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#45438
11/09/2001 2:39 PM
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#45439
11/09/2001 2:48 PM
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"We came to bury Caesar not to praise him.
Nemo dat quod non habet. You can't paper over your ill-breeding by quoting Shakespeare, Plutarch. The devil can quote scripture, doncha know.
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11/09/2001 2:55 PM
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The devil can quote scripture
True. He can also quote "The Doors". Oops. I didn't mean to say that. Is that a cataphasis?
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#45441
11/09/2001 3:12 PM
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#45442
11/09/2001 3:14 PM
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Dear Wordminstrel: Baiting your breath with methyl chloride could swiftly abate your breathing.It is not my breath I wish to abate, wwh. In any case, it seems to have worked.
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#45443
11/09/2001 3:30 PM
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Be not the first by whom the new is tried, not yet the last to lay the old aside.
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#45444
11/09/2001 3:45 PM
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I hear this is the place talibanned by people of "good breeding".  I can't wait to tell all my friends about it.
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#45445
11/09/2001 9:44 PM
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this is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on, my friends. some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they’ll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song that never ends.... <repeat... and repeat... and...> with thanks to tsuwm
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#45446
11/09/2001 10:24 PM
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#45447
11/09/2001 10:25 PM
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He must've written this poem with this thread in mind!  THE SCREEN WITH THE FACE WITH THE VOICEby Ogden Nash How long Is a song? O Lord, How long? A second? A minute? An hour? A day? A decade? A cycle of Cathay? Press the ears With occlusive fingers; The whining melody Lingers, lingers; The mouthing face Will not be hid, But leers at the eye From the inner lid. With the sure advance of ultimate doom The moaning adenoids larger loom; The seven-foot eyebrows fall and rise In roguish rapture or sad surprise; Eyeballs roll with fine emotion, Like buoys rocked by a treacle ocean; Tugged like the bell above the chapel, Tosses the giant Adam's apple; Oozes the voice from the magic screen, A slow Niagra of Grenadine; A frenzy of ripe orgiastic pain, Niagra gurgling down the drain. How long Is a song? O Lord, How long? As long as Loew, And Keith, And Albee; It Was, And Is, And Always Shall Be. This is the string Time may not sever, This is the music that lasts forever, This is the Womb, This is the Tomb, This is Alpha, Omega, and Oom!The eyes, the eyes shall follow you! The throat, the throat shall swallow you! Hygienic teeth shall wolf you! And viscous voice engulf you! The lolloping tongue itself answer your question! The Adam's Apple dance at your ingestion! And you shall never die, but live to nourish the bowels Of deathless celluloid vowels. © 1947 by Ogden Nash (note: the italics are mine)
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#45448
11/09/2001 11:45 PM
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Does anyone remember the name for the rhetorical device for saying what you are not
going to say?
Faldage reply: Yes
Dear Faldage: Another example of the rhetorical device:
" I will not say you are lying, but I am unable to think of a more probable reason for not giving its name."
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#45449
11/10/2001 12:40 AM
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imagine how pleased I was to get the chance to post this somewhere
No-one ever accused me of having "good breeding", or "good manners" for that matter, but I know when I have met my match. tsuwm deserves to have "the last word".
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11/10/2001 12:48 AM
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I know when I have met my match
He does have the superior claim, wordminstrel. Qui melius probat, melius habet. It is gracious of you to concede defeat. I know how much it meant to you.
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