#47473
11/18/2001 3:39 PM
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Plu, your Saliency, I will defer to your correction and heretofore will do as bidden. I offer you a salty dog (with its tail tucked between its legs) as a consalition.
No salt salts like morte tongue's salt salts
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#47474
11/18/2001 4:08 PM
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No salt salts like morte tongue's salt salts
Your selection is selubrious. I couldn't have salted it better myself. Morton might have something to say about it, however. He may think your phrasing is selacious, but he cannot accuse you of taking his name in vain. For you have taken his name, but not in vain.
P.S. Morton may think you have poured wounds on his salt, but where I come from, it is only fair comment. "Windsor Salt" may not pour when it rains, but it reigns supreme ... amongst people who fancy their salt, of course. Personally, I am not one of them, wwh. I abstain from salt altogether as I am told that we get more than enough of it in our regular diet and too much is not good for one's blood pressure. If this sounds like a seditious thing for a selebrity to say, wwh, I am sorry. But surely one can savor a thing without tasting it ... just as one can have fond memories of a thing which is "only a memory".
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#47475
11/18/2001 8:45 PM
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"Mama's little baby loves shortnin', shortnin', Mama's little baby loves shortnin' thread..."  
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#47476
11/18/2001 8:51 PM
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Your wish has come true.  P.S.That is the best YART I have ever seen thrown around here, bar none, and it deserves appropriate recognition. In fact, this is a YART of the highest art! (We ALL should take YART lessons.)
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#47477
11/18/2001 10:24 PM
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A YART thrown with force can add to the score, but a YART thrown with art can settle the score. Plutarch falls on his sword.
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#47478
11/18/2001 10:44 PM
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Dear plutarch: your local salt sellers should complain to EPA about Morton ad suggesting halide pollution is something to laugh about. That brat girl ought be severely punished for spilling so much sodium chloride for so many years.
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#47479
11/18/2001 11:04 PM
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A tangent on salt--not that we adhere to tangential thinking here. Egad!
wwh, isn't it true that people with very low blood pressure benefit by a slight increase in sodium? Mine runs at about 60/90, not that I'm asking for free medical advice or anything like that...
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#47480
11/18/2001 11:46 PM
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Dear WW: I am eminently unqualified to give medical advice. I have been retired for about twenty five years, and have made no effort to keep up, and have forgotten a lot. There is a lot of evidence that salt restriction is very beneficial in most forms of hypertension. I am unsure what the blood pressures you give may be caused by. But I would hope you have a good doctor and take his advice. But you have given me something to do. I am pleasantly surprised by the amount and quality of medical information on the Net, so long as you totally avoid the alternative medical idiots. Internet, here I come.
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#47481
11/19/2001 12:06 AM
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Dear Wordwind: I put my foot in my mouth on your "Pronunciation" thread earlier today, and I am just stopping by to apologize officially. I am sometimes confused with the General who leads your war effort. That is certainly unfair to him. For one thing, he has a masterful command of all 26 letters of the alphabet while there are only 6 letters in my little squadron (and one of them is AWOL most of the time). Furthermore, I can't even string a single word together, apart from the acronym "iou" which is something of a liability. So, I offer my abject apologies to the real General, as well as to you and anyone who visited your thread before I was able to make my retreat from my dim-witted pun. Before I return to my duties in the alphabet, may I explain that altho I come from a country which supports the American war effort fully, my country isn't on the front-lines as you are, and we haven't got any Generals at all. In fact, our military capability is about as limited as my vocabulary. I know the rest of the alphabet will expect me to run the gauntlet so I must be running off. For whatever its worth, I think all posters are created equally as well. We have had a few dust-ups in the alphabet just like the ones I have seen here at AWADtalk. Actually my cousin George wrote a book about it called "Alphabet Farm". Anyway, we solved the problem by electing a few capital letters at the upper end of the alphabet to protect those at the lower end. You don't have a whole lot of friends to turn to when you're at the bottom. The ones in between can pretty much fend for themselves. They don't feel like strangers. Of course, that's not really any of my business and I've got problems enough of my own right now.
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#47482
11/19/2001 12:20 AM
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Dear General Vowell:
I must admit I haven't paid much attention to the pronunciation thread. When the front lines started discussing aunts and ants, I decided this battle sounded more like a Sunday picnic, so I shipped myself back to the Serengeti to visit my old water horse friends. tsuwm tried to teach me how to improve my usage of thetical, but I became so excited about seeing the springboks, wildebeests, elephants (with their genuine elephant ears for flapping in the wind for ready perusal), giraffes, and (oh, stop, my beating heart) hippopotami, that I didn't notice anything you'd said on the pronunciation thread.
IOU a look there, General, on the thread, but far be in from me to criticize much from my vantage point. Keep in mind: I am a southernly-blowing Wordwind and have the turbulent accent to prove it!
Best regards,
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#47483
11/19/2001 12:42 AM
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I am a southernly-blowing Wordwind and have the turbulent accent to prove it!
There is no turbulence in your accent, Wordwind. As I said, its really none of my business. I won't be back. I've caused enough disturbance in one day. And, Plutarch. He won't be back either. He's a mess. He looks like that Proctor fellow lying under the cot when Prot returned to K-Pac. Comatose as a cabbage.
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#47484
11/19/2001 1:06 AM
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I am a southernly-blowing Wordwind and have the turbulent accent to prove it!Whoa, I'd better get my eyes checked--for a second, there, I was wondering how a wordwind could have a tubalent accent.
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#47485
11/19/2001 9:39 AM
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Good Morning, Jackie...
I just checked tubalent on OneLook and came up with nada. What would tubalent mean, if it's not a word, and, of course, what is it if it is? It sounds rather brassy to me.
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#47486
11/19/2001 3:33 PM
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Dear WW: just to be preposterous, a couple of guys in my unit in Philippines were "tubalent" all the time we were on Leyte. This was intoxication they claimed was induced by "tuba" which was fermented cocoanut milk made by the natives. But when we had to move our supplies by ship to go to Manila, it was discovered that in spite of having been in a chickenwire protected enclosure, all of the five gallon cans of laboratory alcohol were empty. Evidently a pole with a nail had been used to puncture them, and a pole with a cup used to catch the contents.
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#47487
11/19/2001 4:04 PM
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wwh, thanks for that great story about the coconut concococoction...
The coconut tuba isn't in my AMH I have here at school. I'm on my lunch break, so I'll do a Google search to see what comes up, if anything.
I did think you'd enjoy knowing the the derivation of coconut (or cocoanut) goes back to the Portuguese word for "goblin," I just learned. The Portuguese word is "coco," but the accent is too small in my dictionary to make out; that "coco" can mean grinning skull, goblin or coconut.
I know recipes aren't allowed, but I'll hide one here: Drill out the eyes of the coconut; pour out the milk; mix coconut milk with lots of vodka; pour back into shell; put a bit of aluminum foil into the holes and sealeach one with wax; by Christmas, if you do this Thanksgiving, you will have a very nice coconut liqueur.
Lady in White,
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#47488
11/19/2001 4:58 PM
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Lucky I remembered language on Leyte was "Visayan". Using that, I found a site: 2.The Cebuano Tuba ... guides us to the old Visayan culture of drink. The early Visayans knew five basic kinds of alcoholic drinks. The most popular was tuba, the fermented sap of ... http://www.esprint.com.ph/pointcebu/culture/drink1.htm More Results From: www.esprint.com.ph I haven't looked at it, but I bet it will not say fermentation was allegedly induced by urinating into juice. That may have been a ploy to keep us from drinking it. It sure deterred me. Postscript: Dear WW; in answer to your PM about interdict, I am reminded of a post quite a while ago that you may have missed, and might amuse others who have joined recently: 1.Hugh Gallagher's 'College Essay' ... with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles ... my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. ... http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/joke/essay.htm
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#47489
11/19/2001 6:44 PM
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Hi folks, I'm George Vowell, Collin's cousin. Collin was kind enuf to put in a plug for my book "Alphabet Farm". Frankly, the book hasn't been selling all that well lately. Truth is, it never caught on with the rest of the alphabet. So I'm working on a sequel, "Alphabet Manor". Anyway, this was an unscheduled appearance, so I won't take up more of your time. Collin would send his best but I think u have already seen it.
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#47490
11/19/2001 6:56 PM
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Dear George Vowell: Are you an alphatist in disguise? Guising ended a couple weeks ago. It is getting cold and we need new threads. So start a few.
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#47491
11/20/2001 2:23 AM
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What would tubalent mean, if it's not a word, and, of course, what is it if it is? It sounds rather brassy to me.You got it, my dear! Not only was I thinking that a woodwind could not sound "tuba-lent", I have never seen a Wordwind create tubalence.
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#47492
11/20/2001 2:41 AM
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Jackie, to get the drift of your musical riff, I had to try a double reed...
Woodwind, developing her embrochures on blowing the coconut tubalentioso
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#47493
11/20/2001 2:44 AM
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Jackie, to get the drift of your musical riff, I had to try a double reed...Oh, I'm sorry--I should have made it clear enough for you to get it the first time... 
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