#89898
12/23/2002 9:37 PM
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Don't I get an attagirl for sniffing out the obsolete answer that gave sjm his attaboy? [pout-e]
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#89899
12/24/2002 2:32 AM
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I demand, sirrah, your immediate withdrawal of the offending comment or I shall meet you, with seconds, out behind the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices!Das'right! And I emphatically, and gratefully, volunteer to stand-up as your second, O noble Faldage, for having my vote dissected and then tossed into the trash along with the heap of wrapping paper trimmings, just because I voted for my own definition! Harrumph!® (I'm so mad I'm actually adding the tradmark to that!) Da noive of it all! HogSanta seems to be switching his gift with coal! Shame, shame, shame. Oh, well...since it 'tis the season (double "its" intentional!), I will show my best elf-like demeanor and withdraw my vote for myself, thereby releasing a whole one-third vote back to each of the other 'dillo dillies!  Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas!
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#89900
12/24/2002 10:09 AM
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Hey! Wait Whitman! Don't despair!
I googled my google off but I think I found them...
_ >---> >> The Lost Rules of Hogwash << <---<__
Hidden away in the Quatrains of Nostradamus, Canto 13, Quatrain 666, was this...(translated freely from the french)
O'Saki, when the false swan fails to score against your name,
It matters not whether you win or lose, O Saki
The WereWitch Consuelmo will mark your play of game.
What does this mean?
Who is the false swan?
Who is the werewench consuelmo?
What happened to the missing line of the quatrain?
Who won this round of Hogwash? Me?
Who is wished a Merry Christmas? The Hogwashers?
Yes.
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#89901
12/24/2002 10:38 AM
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Oh, pretty please Mr. Hogmaster, all has not been made obvious! Half the fun of this game, or at least one third, is in finding out who invented which definition! Who wrote all the armadillos? The leather transformer bag? European women not shaving under their arms? and all the rest?
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#89902
12/24/2002 12:35 PM
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It's obvious, Mr. Minderbinder, that the false swan is either me or etaoin.
And thank you for coming so nobly to my defense.
Or were you offering to be tsuwm's second?
And, Juan, I accept your offer.
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#89903
12/24/2002 2:27 PM
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Since I'm not gonna bother looking up the actual® definition, I'll presume it to be something like "ornamental wrist bands made out of baby, dwarf armadillos".
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#89904
12/24/2002 3:27 PM
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>Who wrote all the armadillos?
I left those off to protect the ingenuous. gosh, I was so sorely tempted to add another armadillo definition, making a hogshead of armadillos.
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#89905
12/24/2002 6:37 PM
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Or were you offering to be tsuwm's second?Yes Mr. Faldage, I will be tsuwm's second, third, forth, or fifth if he will have me. And as his man-in-waiting I will caution him to be wary of your tricks. Choose your weapons. Merriam-Webster or American Heritage? It matters not a rats damn to us. We wait with the confidence of the just. 
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#89906
12/24/2002 7:05 PM
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...a hogshead of armadillos
Is that bigger or smaller than a cask of armadillos, written about by that famous bear Edgar Allen Pooh? (multiple cross-threads)
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#89907
12/24/2002 8:32 PM
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Merriam-Webster or American Heritage?
Brick and mortar OED. Without Supplement.
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#89908
12/27/2002 1:39 AM
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cask of armadillosNo, no, no, wofadoc...that's The Cask of Armadillado! ...of which, HogSanta, I just so happen to have a well-concealed stash in a secret reach of the catacombs...I know how you crave its superb subtle flavor...follow me...oh, no! not at all! it's nothing! please, I bid you! my pleasure! I don't share my armadillado with just anyone you know! toss my vote for my daffy def into the trash heap, will you, hmmm? yes, the dampness is quite piercing here, good HogSanta, but it's certainly worth enduring this discomfort for a taste of the rare, the delicate, the inspiring flavor of armadillado! I'm not surprised you agree, good HogSanta...follow me...it's right this way... yes, yes, you're quite right...poefully succinct, and delicious! brick...mortar...brick...mortar...brick...mortar...
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#89909
12/27/2002 12:11 PM
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#89910
12/29/2002 8:49 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Snow gettin to ya, Juan?
No - he's just having one of his poetic turns
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#89911
12/30/2002 11:01 PM
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#89912
12/30/2002 11:22 PM
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Since "attaboy" appears to have become the apple of dischord, I shall attempt to soothe the savaged beasts by mentioning that no such accolade ever found its way into my PM box.
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#89913
12/30/2002 11:32 PM
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I'm quite sure I sent a PM at the time, explaining that while you were 'right on' with your definition, I wasn't giving you the 'right on' bonus, in that it was obsolete.
now, I will admit that this could be construed, by a small-minded individual, as a somewhat back-handed attaboy...
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#89914
12/30/2002 11:37 PM
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>by a small-minded individual,
That's me - Small J. Minded at your service.
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