#81199
09/19/2002 6:46 PM
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(as per the 99 post board etiquette "we-don't-need-no- steenkin'-rules-rule") the nucleus of the matter?I've got it! We've gotta get Dubya to say nucleus...if he says nuculous, we've got 'em! 
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#81200
09/19/2002 6:48 PM
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Say da magic woid ya earn a hundred dollahs. It's a common woid, something you have zillions of in yer own body.
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#81201
09/19/2002 6:52 PM
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Faldage said: Very good, Dub. I sincerely commend you for this action. I will have no more to say on the matter in this forum.Well...[rolleyes-e] 
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#81202
09/19/2002 6:54 PM
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Well...[rolleyes-e]
I said what I meant and I meant what I said and I din't and it's done.
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#81203
09/19/2002 6:56 PM
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I said what I meant and I meant what I said and I din't and it's done.A man's word is a man's word! No sense goin' nucular about it! 
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#81204
09/20/2002 6:12 AM
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Well, that's that theory blown (up).
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#81205
09/20/2002 4:01 PM
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Stop stop stop! I have had no trouble saying nuc-le-ar for years...until now. I've read it so many times here that now I have to stop and think before I say it. So stop it I say! Lest you think it's not a word in everyday conversations - well you must not live within 10 miles of a Nuclear Power Plant, as I do - Seabrook Station- actually about 5 miles as the crow flies from my house, across the marsh to the plant.
Ya not gonna baleeve it BUT - at an NRC meeting I attended years ago as a reporter one of the Commissioners actually used The Other Pronunciation!
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#81206
09/20/2002 4:16 PM
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one of the Commissioners actually used The Other Pronunciation!
I ain't sayin' nothin'.
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#81207
09/20/2002 7:09 PM
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Ya not gonna baleeve it BUT - at an NRC meeting I attended years ago as a reporter one of the Commissioners actually used The Other Pronunciation!Now he's pro'bly one of Bush's speech writers!
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#81208
09/21/2002 2:27 AM
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Now he's pro'bly one of Bush's speech writers! W'on
...well, that explains it then. I can rest more easily tonight.
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#81209
09/21/2002 2:37 AM
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Darnit, Whitman, Nuke'em 2 is already out and the Academy hasn't yet named the Awad Awards for Nuke'em 1. May I have the envelope please... The Best Imitation of Monica Lewinsky Award goes to... ...the Wordwind who said... " Five minutes with the president; That's all I'm asking. Five minutes"The Most Clever Mask of a Vulgar and Tasteless Remark Award;The winner is... Faldage for the sentiment... "Anyun thanks a three yer ole cain't lie 'sgot his hed stuck so far up his butt he's lookin' through his ohn bawls."And the ever-coveted It Takes One To Know One Award goes to...of course, everyone's favorite Chicagian- Musick for the completeness of his remark... "I know a non-sequitur when I see one, and that ain't one."And now a Surprise. For the first time in aylears history a unamious vote for the Miss Congeniality Award ... Fishonabike ! Come on up fish and take a bow...sure you can, fish, if you can ride a bike you can bow. Thank You fish, you are fresh tho' though a fish and we love you. What a guy! Moving right along, the award for the Most Profound But Yet Cool Comment goes to the much-saged wwh for... "...so as we are all descriptivists and if we strip all meaning from words, communication will be more surely destroyed than can be done by the use of a few, like, y'knows, and whatevers."And Finally, at long last, we come to that most titilating moment of these awards for all you word-loving, mother-loathing, pedancing pedants out there in full-lull of catch-as-may-catch-can word processing. The announcement of the award for Hey, Hey, I Gotcha goes to... Ladies and gentlemen, you won't believe this...It's a Tie! Annastrophic for her catching WhitmanOniel in his sloppy spelling of "expecially" (sic)and the great Faldage for his insight into the message of wordwind that she had clumsly used an extra "the". Congratulations you two, and bless your ever continuing ideas of frolicing and fun. And I mean this (outside of sublties) sincerely, Milum. (And the two-thousand members of the Academy Board.) Except one.
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#81210
09/21/2002 2:55 AM
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"expecially"Uh, 'scuse me, milum...but, uh, that's ex specially! 
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#81211
09/21/2002 3:12 AM
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milum should be given an award, too, for: K N U C K L E E A R
...Best Overall Creation of a Stand-in Term for All Matters Nucular and Nuclear, Take Your Pick (Where is wow?)
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#81212
09/21/2002 3:20 AM
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Oh god, Whitty, must you destroy my continuities? Together you and I can find Nirvana, not your friends, nor the jerks.
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#81213
09/21/2002 3:29 AM
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It seems we're now inflating these smple wordistic maneuvers to Nucularean Proportions. But I won't cave in to milum's idle flattery (after all, he did award AsP for zinging ME!) by knuckle-earing up to him with pseudo-statuesque tributes. Besides, like the great George C. Scott, I find all awards for artistic achievement (ahem) to be rather pukular.  And I won't show up for the ceremony... 
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#81214
09/21/2002 3:40 AM
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Continuities?  You smell land, where there be no land!...but such is normal for a once-great Atlantean spirit like yourself! But ol' Ahab is dead, my dear miley...and so we must look to the whale as the nuculous of the tale, mustn't we?...whopper that it is? And I already found Nirvana, thanks...a gal named Ana who had a lot of nerve! You want her back!!!?
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#81215
09/21/2002 6:56 AM
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I already found Nirvana, thanks...a gal named Ana who had a lot of nerve!
Ana? That's a funny way of spelling "Courtney". Or "Kurt Cobain" for that matter ...
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#81216
09/21/2002 10:25 AM
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Thank ya, thank ya. But Ah muss complain. It were ahbawls not ohn bawls. 'S a whole nother thang.
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#81217
09/21/2002 11:08 AM
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Ana? That's a funny way of spelling "Courtney". Or "Kurt Cobain" for that matter ...Geez, Cap...that's a pretty grungey remark!
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#81218
09/21/2002 12:52 PM
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#81219
09/21/2002 10:26 PM
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Yer right, Juan.Ommigosh! Ommigosh! Unmitigated, unembellished, unqualified agreement from the Cap! I'm humbled, I'm astonished, I'm speechless! Mark this moment well in the annals of AWAD history, folks, it may never come again!
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#81220
09/21/2002 10:49 PM
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>...unqualified agreement from the Cap! I'm humbled, I'm astonished, I'm speechless!
okay, which of you is indulging in irony?!
...oh, wait; it can't, by conventional wisdom, be Juan.
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#81221
09/23/2002 5:57 AM
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...oh, wait; it can't, by conventional wisdom, be Juan.I've never been conventional!
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#81222
09/23/2002 1:30 PM
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There were opportunities to share genetic material that I missed?
I must be getting old.
a unamious vote
No love lost there, then!
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#81223
09/23/2002 8:23 PM
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Moi? Ironic? Geddaway wit' yer!
I promise it'll never happen again, Juan. Sorry. Just a Fridayan slip ...
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#81224
09/23/2002 8:36 PM
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has, as any good award show must, given out one of its gongs to the wrong recipient. In reply to:
the award for the Most Profound But Yet Cool Comment goes to the much-saged wwh for...
"...so as we are all descriptivists and if we strip all meaning from words, communication will be more surely destroyed than can be done by the use of a few, like, y'knows, and whatevers."
However, the link below shows that this comment was made by Faldage.
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=81094
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#81225
09/23/2002 9:06 PM
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