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#85729
11/05/2002 5:07 PM
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Another one of the spelling bee words. A coin collector. Numimatic = study of coins.
For once, my dictionary gives more information about etymology, tracing it back to
Greek nomos = law. Creation of coins is a jealously guarded prerogative of goverhment.
If you get caught making coins, you get plenty privilege taken away. (Hoagy Carmichael).
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#85730
11/05/2002 5:34 PM
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Not to be confused with the philately of the philatelist.
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#85731
11/14/2002 5:51 AM
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So did a coin collector coin numismatist?
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#85732
11/14/2002 8:21 AM
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Nagh, a numismatist put the stamp of approval on philatelist.
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#85733
11/16/2002 5:25 AM
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If you collect both coins and stamps, are you a numismaphilatelist or a philatelnumismatist?
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#85734
11/16/2002 2:15 PM
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My collection is small, but I collect portraits of dead presidents.
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#85735
12/03/2002 6:57 PM
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wwh - Does this make you and fiberbabe "narcologists"?
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#85736
12/03/2002 10:47 PM
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Dear musick: Fiberbabe could not be persuaded to narco with me.
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#85737
02/08/2004 4:24 PM
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old hand
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Hey now! I don't remember being formally asked! 
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#85738
02/08/2004 5:22 PM
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The trouble with 'formally asking' is that it is difficult
to ask for favors without asking for two things: one, the favor, and two, the tacit admission by the recipient that
she welcomed the request.
Pride dictated rejection of the tacit admission.
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