#91524
01/11/2003 4:16 PM
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Brand name valium. Very effective antikedogenic (how's that for a coinage?)
(cf. latest hijack)
Also much abused by recreational druggies.
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#91525
01/11/2003 4:19 PM
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DIBATAG, CLARKE'S GAZELLE
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#91526
01/11/2003 4:21 PM
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dibble
n.
5ME dibbel, prob. < dibben: see DIB6 a pointed tool used to make holes in the soil for seeds, bulbs, or young plants Also called dib4ber
vt.
3bled, 3bling
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#91527
01/11/2003 4:24 PM
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A tropical perennial plant used as ground cover in Southern US.
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#91528
01/11/2003 4:37 PM
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From Kant: ....... practical laws of reason (dictamina rationis ...
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#91529
01/11/2003 4:39 PM
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#91530
01/11/2003 4:39 PM
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difficile
adj.
5MFr < L difficilis, difficult: reintroduced < Fr6 hard or difficult; esp., hard to deal with, please, etc.
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#91531
01/11/2003 4:46 PM
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#91532
01/11/2003 4:56 PM
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Dear WW: don't be difficile, darling. It was in my dictionary.
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#91533
01/14/2003 6:56 PM
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enthusiast
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Makes me think of marzipan.
Almost everything makes me think of marzipan -- I love that stuff! I'm told that a day without Mozart is like a day without marzipan.
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#91534
01/14/2003 7:32 PM
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Dear boronia: and a day without marzipan is a day without marchpane.
When I was small, my mother would make candy by pouring sufficiently
cooked syrup over a packed pan of snow, which would chill it until it
was semi-solid and wouln't stick to our fingers. I thought it got its name
from the fact it was often March when we made it.
marzipan
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5Ger < It marzapane, confection, earlier, the small box containing it, small dry measure, certain weight < ML matapanus, Venetian coin with figure of Christ on a throne < Ar mauthaban, seated king (< wathaba, to sit)6 a confection of ground almonds, sugar, and egg white made into a paste and variously shaped and colored
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#91535
01/15/2003 8:15 AM
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#91536
01/15/2003 9:20 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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Certainly what you describe would be termed a dibble in the UK and it is the only tool for the purpose that I know of. I don't know how commercial growers do the job, but they must have a mechanised process. I suspect their bulbs don't see natural soil until we buy them and plant them and they have outgrown the compost they came in! Ain't Nature wonderful.
Hello, I just became an Addict
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#91537
01/15/2003 1:05 PM
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#91538
01/15/2003 1:30 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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So if I want to give up, do I call on Betty Ford or is there a specialist clinic?
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#91539
01/15/2003 2:05 PM
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#91540
01/15/2003 2:17 PM
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This is one addiction that is cured by continued use.
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#91541
01/15/2003 4:34 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Or by stretching out in the sun...with Anu's book of course.
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