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#79841 09/05/2002 3:47 PM
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This is a good one, O wfftd-Master!...in that, the options are all negotiable. I like 'butterflies in the stomach', but "myth" leads me more to "a ventriloquist" in that the projected voice is a myth. So that's my Final Answer...D.


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Awww, no fair - this is like hearing half of a phone conversation that sounds like it may be fun.



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>wfftd-Master

worthless ford for the day?
wasteful fun for the day?!
wordy floccinaucinihilipilification for the day??
what?




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shona, you could subscribe ya know but.

the worthless word for the day is: engastrimyth

choose one:
a) a rumbling in the bowels
b) butterflies in the stomach
c) a stuffed Phoenix
d) a ventriloquist



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Awww...I just wanted to see if you'd pick-up on that typo. And you did, in your usual grandiloquent and masterly style!

Hey, Shona...all you have to do is subscribe to tsuwm's site to get in on the other half of the fun! It's free!


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Whew! Finally my enthusiasm's been recognized!


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Dear WO'N: Name the god that has possessed you.


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you could subscribe ya know

Yeah nunc, but I know myself - I wouldn't be able to resist pursuing definitions, exploring histories, etc, and then it would be another hour I haven't got out of my day .

Having said which, here I am doing the same thing on AWADtalk anyway...

OK, I give in.

My first guess was (a) tummy rumble, but now I think (d) ventriloquist is much more likely. Off to LIU..




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"some writers thought that the voice came from the genitals"

Ah, so that's what the testes are there for. Since the Sperm whale thread we've known that sperm is actually generated in the brain:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=78058

Gives a new meaning to the term talking bollocks.


BTW, I do know this was really about the Witch of Endor, and female genitals, honest!


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I like the idea of a stuffed Pheonix. But wherever would you display it? There's not a room over the mantel to display it--and I think the side of the barn would collapse from the weight.


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I like the idea of a stuffed Pheonix. But wherever would you display it?

I would suggest in the fireplace rather than above it, WW.


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I would suggest in the fireplace rather than above it, WW.

*rimshot*


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http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/index.html

He's your neighbor, Nancy! :-)


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Dear WO'N: Name the god that has possessed you.

Pick one!

BTW, I was correct about D,ventriloquist, for engastrimyth. More fodder for the gods?



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