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Re: Footnotes

#47714 11/13/2001 8:48 PM

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this too shall pass

tsuwm

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tsuwm

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Joined: Apr 2000

Posts: 10,542
this too shall pass

'Treppenwitz' is an expression for the case when a joke comes to your mind too late, when you're already descending the staircase.

bill, you don't know how long I looked for a word/phrase for this concept, until discovering about a year ago the F. phrase l'esprit d'escalier; the wit of the staircase.

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Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 2:33 AM

Re: Footnotes Geoff 11/13/2001 5:26 AM

Re: Footnotes WhitmanO'Neill 11/13/2001 5:55 AM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 10:03 AM

Re: Footnotes of troy 11/13/2001 7:36 PM

Re: Footnotes WhitmanO'Neill 11/13/2001 11:02 PM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 10:31 AM

Re: Footnotes tsuwm 11/13/2001 4:27 PM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 6:57 PM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 7:39 PM

Re: Footnotes of troy 11/13/2001 7:57 PM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 8:23 PM

Re: Footnotes wwh 11/13/2001 8:24 PM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 8:29 PM

Re: Footnotes wwh 11/13/2001 8:38 PM

Re: Footnotes stales 11/14/2001 2:53 AM

Re: Footnotes tsuwm 11/13/2001 8:48 PM

Re: Footnotes wwh 11/13/2001 8:56 PM

Re: too late smart tsuwm 11/14/2001 2:44 PM

Re: too late smart wwh 11/14/2001 3:57 PM

Re: too late smart Wordwind 11/15/2001 1:46 AM

Re: too late smart wwh 11/15/2001 1:58 AM

Re: too late smart stales 11/15/2001 8:00 AM

Re: too late smart wwh 11/15/2001 2:40 PM

Re: too late smart Wordwind 11/15/2001 3:14 PM

Re: too late smart wwh 11/15/2001 4:16 PM

Re: too late smart tsuwm 11/15/2001 4:23 PM

Re: too late smart wwh 11/15/2001 5:43 PM

Re: what was that name? satin 11/15/2001 9:13 PM

Re: what was that name? Wordwind 11/15/2001 10:39 PM

Re: what was that name? wwh 11/15/2001 11:15 PM

Re: treadle machine Wordwind 11/16/2001 12:08 AM

Re: treadle machine Geoff 11/17/2001 3:39 PM

Re: treadle machine Wordwind 11/17/2001 8:00 PM

Heels Wordwind 11/18/2001 2:26 PM

Re: Heels wwh 11/18/2001 2:52 PM

Re: Heels Wordwind 11/19/2001 10:14 AM

Tholepin Wordwind 11/19/2001 10:20 AM

To Heel and Back RhubarbCommando 11/19/2001 2:34 PM

a Heeling process RhubarbCommando 11/19/2001 2:40 PM

Re: a Heeling process wwh 11/19/2001 3:12 PM

Re: a Heeling process Keiva 11/21/2001 4:04 AM

Re: To Heel and Back Bingley 11/20/2001 12:55 AM

Re: Heels Keiva 11/21/2001 4:13 AM

glow, perspire, or sweat of troy 11/18/2001 4:38 PM

Re: glow, perspire, or sweat Wordwind 11/18/2001 6:06 PM

Re: glow, perspire, or sweat wwh 11/18/2001 7:29 PM

Re: !WARNING!: Sports Word! WhitmanO'Neill 11/18/2001 9:27 PM

Re: glow, perspire, or sweat Geoff 11/19/2001 5:17 AM

Re: glow, perspire, or sweat of troy 11/19/2001 9:05 PM

Various Bobyoungbalt 11/20/2001 3:17 AM

Re: Foot insults wwh 11/20/2001 3:51 AM

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Re: slew-foot Wordwind 11/20/2001 9:43 AM

Re: Various RhubarbCommando 11/20/2001 12:53 PM

Re: Various Wordwind 11/20/2001 2:04 PM

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Re: Various Jackie 11/21/2001 2:12 AM

Re: culinary pediments? WhitmanO'Neill 11/21/2001 4:29 AM

Re: culinary pediments? Jackie 11/21/2001 12:33 PM

Re: culinary pediments? RhubarbCommando 11/21/2001 12:38 PM

Re: culinary pediments? wwh 11/21/2001 3:14 PM

Re: culinary pediments? Wordwind 11/21/2001 4:43 PM

Re: culinary pediments? Jazzoctopus 11/25/2001 9:46 PM

Re: culinary pediments? Wordwind 11/25/2001 10:01 PM

Re: culinary pediments? wwh 11/25/2001 11:35 PM

good bye and good luck of troy 11/25/2001 11:40 PM

Re: culinary pediments? musick 11/21/2001 6:17 PM

Re: culinary pediments? Wordwind 11/21/2001 7:36 PM

Re: culinary pediments? wwh 11/21/2001 7:37 PM

Re: culinary pediments? Wordwind 11/22/2001 2:53 AM

Re: footprints wwh 11/22/2001 3:25 AM

Re: footprints tsuwm 11/22/2001 2:28 PM

Re: footprints Wordwind 11/22/2001 2:56 PM

Re: Anichnogram Wordwind 11/16/2001 12:20 AM

Re: what was that name? Jackie 11/16/2001 2:30 AM

Re: too late smart Bingley 11/16/2001 4:49 AM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 8:59 PM

Re: Footnotes wwh 11/13/2001 9:08 PM

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Re: Footnotes wwh 11/13/2001 4:33 PM

Re: Footnotes of troy 11/13/2001 5:09 PM

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Re: Footnotes Geoff 11/13/2001 10:09 PM

Re: Footnotes consuelo 11/13/2001 11:06 PM

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Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/13/2001 11:24 PM

Re: Footnotes Rapunzel 11/14/2001 12:20 AM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/14/2001 12:33 AM

Re: Footnotes WhitmanO'Neill 11/14/2001 3:12 AM

Re: Footnotes RhubarbCommando 11/14/2001 2:02 PM

Re: Footnotes Bingley 11/14/2001 4:22 AM

Re: Footnotes Wordwind 11/14/2001 12:49 PM

Re: Footnotes WhitmanO'Neill 11/16/2001 4:23 AM

footlights! of troy 11/16/2001 4:22 PM

Re: footlights! wow 11/17/2001 2:55 PM

being a regular Round heel-- of troy 11/13/2001 4:03 PM

Re: Footnotes wwh 11/13/2001 4:55 PM

Re: Footnotes stales 11/14/2001 2:56 AM

Re: Footnotes Keiva 11/17/2001 4:30 PM

Re: Footnotes of troy 11/17/2001 7:21 PM

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