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11/10/2001 11:22 AM
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Mission Statement: The Short Thread Society is founded on the principle that brevity is the soul of wit and it also saves a lot of needlework. All people are welcome here without regard to their threadnological preferences but we generally believe in sticking to our own knitting. In short: "Be brief and be gone." There is no current record for the shortest thread in AWADom, but there is likely to become one very shortly. That would suit us just fine.
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#47394
11/10/2001 11:29 AM
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Nominees for shortest threads:
Elves
Pixies
Fairies
and Terpsichorean angels on heads of pins
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#47395
11/10/2001 12:12 PM
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Our New Shorter Motto: Less is more. Self-evident truths: All posters are created equal. You can run on but you can't hide behind your post count. Rising rank can become an odor problem. In any case, noblesse oblige.  Our Patron Saint: Jennifer Lopez (in Versace); Conan (in loincloth) 4 the ladies ???? Words of wisdom: People who prefer short threads shouldn't open a shop for Queen size ladies or XXXL Men. Our logo: The eye of an needle. Favorite biblical inspiration: A puffy poster has as much chance of getting into heaven (or short-listed for the "Twiggies") as squeezing thru the eye of a needle. Favorite Saying: A stitch in time saves nine. Favorite Abbreviation: etc. (1 is enuf) Favorite Latin Maxim: Res ipsa loquitur Most Frightening Words in the English Language: "I'd like to say a few words about ..."
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#47396
11/10/2001 11:13 PM
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#47397
11/11/2001 12:44 AM
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succinctness without sarcasm
reason without rancor
respect without self-righteousness
consensus without curtains
issues without personalities
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#47398
11/11/2001 12:51 AM
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Rules? We doan need no steenkeeng rules! 
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#47399
11/11/2001 1:05 AM
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Rules? We doan need no steenkeeng rules!Disagreement without disparagement. And wit, humor and fun ... above all.
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#47400
11/11/2001 7:43 AM
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Anything to do with short hair?
TEd
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#47401
11/11/2001 7:59 AM
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A quotation from Giosue' Carducci, an Italian poet ( about a century and a half ago):
A man who uses 14 words to say something for which 12 are enough... I believe that he is able to do the worst deeds.
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#47402
11/11/2001 3:34 PM
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Sarcasm without pretension
issues without personalities Yeh, that'll happen...
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#47403
11/11/2001 4:42 PM
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Violators will be condemned to an eternity in the Omegatist thread.
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11/11/2001 5:02 PM
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11/11/2001 5:23 PM
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poseurs without issues
Thanks for dropping by, tsuwm. I have a chance to apologize to you with fewer words, but no less contrition, than I did yesterday.
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#47406
11/11/2001 5:30 PM
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Thanks for dropping by, tsuwm. I have a chance to apologize to youAnd I do.I don't want to return to the Omegatist thread any more than you do.
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#47407
11/11/2001 9:44 PM
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>>Thanks for dropping by, tsuwm.
followed shortly thereafter by...
>Thanks for dropping by, tsuwm.
this does n-not seem the w-way to sh-shorter threads, joe observed haltingly.
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#47408
11/11/2001 9:50 PM
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Having liquidated the bourgeois omegatists, where are all the alphatists hiding?
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#47409
11/11/2001 10:33 PM
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Got suckered into doing betatists?
TEd
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#47410
11/12/2001 1:19 AM
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"A man who uses 14 words to say something for which 12 are enough... I believe that he is able to do the worst deeds."He is certainly liable to do the worst screeds! P.S. Thanks for setting me up with that, Emanuela. Does that make you my emanuensis?
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#47411
11/12/2001 1:32 AM
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>>Thanks for dropping by, tsuwm.
followed shortly thereafter by...
>Thanks for dropping by, tsuwm.
this does n-not seem the w-way to sh-shorter threads, joe observed haltingly.
I guess you could say it is one drop de trop.
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#47412
11/12/2001 1:58 AM
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where are all the alphatists hiding?
They're stitching their pitches, wwh. (Or perhaps they're sewing their oats.) BTW is it true that flat-liners have all the best one-liners?
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#47413
11/12/2001 2:11 AM
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Or, for the more prolix ones like tsuwm,
throwing their wild oeds...
Just kidding, tsuwm. Jest in case you were miffed.
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#47414
11/12/2001 2:31 AM
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Anything to do with short hair
a la Demi Moore in "G.I.Jane", TEd?
If that is your taste, you may get a buzz out of Demi's buzz cut at the link below. (I'm manely an admirer of long haired ladies ... in short threads. To each his own tresses.)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9990/gijane.html
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#47415
11/12/2001 2:41 AM
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I saw somewhere recently that tresses meant braided hair, at least originally. I do not turn up my nose at hair that is short and curly, though it is only a memory now.
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#47416
11/12/2001 3:20 AM
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I do not turn up my nose at hair that is short and curly
There is a word that describes a turned up nose, wwh. Not in the metaphorical sense but the actual shape. I think it is French. And, at the risk of stringing out this discussion, do you happen to know why people who disdain something are said to be "turning up their nose" at it?
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#47417
11/12/2001 3:57 AM
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Word Weaver
Word Weaver, love your spindle. You can weave a word with a tailor's touch. Getting back to those missing Alphatists: Do you suppose they are out knitting up their ravelled sleeves of care? (Nobody can trump Shakespeare.)
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#47418
11/12/2001 4:06 AM
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I have seen noses retroussé, and I have seen people indicate their consummate satisfaction with their endowment and social status by aiming their snoots at the zenith. But distaste is commonly signaled by a moderate presentation of the nares. The vulgar may needlessly vocalize "Phooey". The aesthetes may indicate their detection of delicately communicative pheromones by an appreciative inhalation.
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#47419
11/12/2001 4:31 AM
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The aesthetes may indicate their detection of delicately communicative pheromones by an appreciative inhalation
Little did I know! Amongst all your other refinements, you are also a connoseur. (Have you ever heard a phero moan? Or is that "just a memory" too?)
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#47420
11/12/2001 4:54 AM
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Duhh - I thought that the short thread society was the underwear tailor's guild.
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#47421
11/12/2001 7:01 AM
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I thought that the short thread society was the underwear tailor's guild.You've come to the right place, Geoff. We specialize in designer briefs. We also thread where wise men seldom go.
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#47422
11/12/2001 8:30 AM
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I have seen noses retroussé
Trust the French to pay homage to the architecture of a nose, wwh. We english, on the other hand, have "aquiline" noses, "Roman" noses, "button" noses, "pug" noses, and the hastily cobbled together "turned-up nose", and everywhere we turn our snozzer we encounter "nosey" people with their noses in everyone else's business and "brown nosers" with their heads buried up other people's rear ends. When we drink too much, we get a "snootful". If we think too much of ourselves, we are "snooty" or, worse, "snotty". Indeed, is there any other orifice of the human anatomy more systematically maligned in the english language than the nose on your face? The French, on the other hand, know better. I have read that the French think so much of their noses that the coveted prodigies who concoct their finest perfumes in spy-proof laboratories are called, simply, "Noses". When it comes to noses, wwh, we english haven't got a whiff of sense.
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#47423
11/12/2001 3:19 PM
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11/12/2001 3:21 PM
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A phero moan is vocal expression of a member of sex profession when payment is denied. At least, so I have been told. I was not merely a con-noser, Sixty eight plus one can be fun.
I think Faldage's empty posts are better than the legible ones.
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11/12/2001 3:44 PM
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Faldage's empty posts
A man of few words. There is no higher compliment you can pay to anyone on this thread, wwh. It is said that "a word to the wise is sufficient". How much more profound no word at all? Now, a single letter, wwh. A single letter can break a poet's heart ... especially when one is snozzing with a con-noseur. For instance: zzzzzzz
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#47426
11/12/2001 4:03 PM
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P.S. Perhaps he was just taking a post count. In any case, I got the message. Personally, I think we should honor this triumph of terseness ... with one niggling reservation, of course. An empty post should not contribute to the "official" post count ... however much it might contribute to our self-esteem. In any case, here is my honorific for an empty post: There is no adage like a Faldadage. They name celestial bodies after their discoverers. We should do no less for empty posters.
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#47427
11/12/2001 4:15 PM
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Dear plutarch: In your scenario, "aaaaaaa" is exultifying, "zzzzzzzz" is stultifying. As a switch, I encountered a word new to me:
stull
n.
5prob. < Ger stolle, a post, orig., short, thick prop: for IE base see STILL16 any of several kinds of supports or frameworks used in mines to prevent cave-ins
Can you think of a stull useful in the tunnel of love? (Folks, remember I didn't start this. I am thinking of Love Canal, in New York, a site EPA was detoxifying.)
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#47428
11/12/2001 4:28 PM
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okay, let's get this over with...
faldage is an im-poster
wwh is a bill-poster
this is my third(3rd) post to this thread... if I post again I will be a four-poster.
on the other hand, if I leave now, post haste, I will have, once again, committed apostasy. I think I may just do that and take up deltiology as a hobby. I should do it now and not postpone any longer.
-ron (pasquinade) obvious
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#47429
11/12/2001 4:34 PM
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Dear tsuwm: a virtuoso performance. But is "pasquinade" your substitute for BrylCreem?
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11/12/2001 4:48 PM
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pasquinade - [F] dance of the netherworld
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11/12/2001 4:48 PM
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"I have seen noses," says dr. bill, discussing what the nose communicates.
It is said that a man may have a wanderin' eye or a Ro-man nose.
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11/12/2001 6:45 PM
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I would like to say a few words about OEDies ... a subject which was mentioned earlier in this thread with something less than fulsome praise. Speaking for myself, I appreciate an OEDie which is threaded with surgical precision. In tribute to the golden OEdie, I have composed this brief paean which I hope will appeal to many if not to the allure. Cognition without cant
Chant without rant
Mantra without manna
From the Top Bah-nana.A wise man once said that next in honor to the originator of a quote is the person who deploys it aptly. While I confess I have felt overwhelmed at times by Pooh-pedantics, I have never been tsuwhammied by a good quote. Indeed, I have often been entertained and enlightened by them. And I hope to see more of them ... with one necessary qualification, of course. "Less is more". Which reminds me, I am overstaying my welcome. I think I will volunteer myself for penance in Pooh-purgatory. And we ALL know where that is. [Horrors!]
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