#91818
01/19/2003 4:06 AM
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>Yes there is: A Reinyartnation® of AWADers......see? Nope, sorry. Given the fact, we are indeed Anything You Like Except Unanimous Raconteurs, the correct term for a group of us is that given to us by Dr. Charles Lutwedge Dodgson, in a stunningly prescient piece of writing. A glory of ayleurs.  for everybody except Mrs F.  For Mrs. F.
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#91819
01/19/2003 4:09 AM
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Nope, sorryA Menagerie of Maxes... 
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#91820
01/19/2003 4:25 AM
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>Menagerie of Maxes Curiously enough, what was the name of the boy who found himself king "Where the Wild Things Are"? Aksherly, my real pride in my earlier post came in coming up with a word for the previously "spurious" final letter in "ayleur". I am especially proud of having come up with a word for this letter, since, as Mrs. F. will testify, I never use it. This is in keeping with the long and proud history of non-rhoticism. Few people realise that only the non-rhotic were on board the Ark during the Great Flood.
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#91821
01/19/2003 12:48 PM
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Faldage, you owe me for a ®
Nuh-uh! I was quoting mg. She's the one owes you. I wouldn't use that miserable excuse for a coinage as a typo.
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#91822
01/19/2003 1:46 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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All these witty expressions for prostitutes but none for a group of johns. Anyone? A mens room of johns comes to mind but it's a bit unwieldy.
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#91823
01/19/2003 2:05 PM
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Few people realise that only the non-rhotic were on board the Ark during the Great Flood. A-hem---beggin' your pardon, sir, but what was Noah's wife's name? She could have been an r person. And how about giraffes? And what was it they were on, hmm? I have to say congratulations on Raconteur, though--it is a sublime fit. But I still ain't one o' them nonreal-word things, and I shall "glory" anyone who tries to say I am!
Hey, I just thought of what would have been a good story to be written up in that Onion thingy, if it were still in existence: "Entire citizenry of U.S. brings class-action suit against the government of New Zealand, for condoning non-rhoticism: unfair handicap for populace".
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#91824
01/19/2003 2:35 PM
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When within earshot of the (inevitably arrogant) mining engineers on a mine site we geologists used to refer to ourselves as a pride. Unfortunately they considered us a gaggle.
I remember when I was an AWAD newbie that I mentioned a "kine" of cattle; a word I'd struck in my teens. This refers to several herds of cattle; ie it is a collective collective noun. Are there any others that anybody is aware of? Armies (or impies) would fill the bill, but they're no fun.
stales
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#91825
01/19/2003 11:11 PM
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stalesey, you are my kine of guy!  What are impies, please?
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#91826
01/20/2003 2:25 AM
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...a group of johns.
A lavvy?
A sink? Or a sinq?
A s#17load?
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#91827
01/20/2003 12:17 PM
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Impi - a Zulu army
Impi(e?)s - plural
VERY handy for getting rid of those pesky I's in a game of scrabble - especially if you get the M on a triple letter!
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#91828
01/20/2003 1:22 PM
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In reply to:
All these witty expressions for prostitutes but none for a group of johns. Anyone?
A revelation of johns.
Bingley
Bingley
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#91829
01/20/2003 1:58 PM
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All these witty expressions for prostitutes but none for a group of johns
A flush of johns? he said self-deridingly...
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#91830
01/20/2003 3:36 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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In reply to:
A revelation of johns.
<standing ovation>Wait, should that be "a revelation of john's"? ;|
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#91831
01/20/2003 8:20 PM
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I ain't chargin' mg 'cause she's special.awww....shucks!  WO'N, I luuuuurrrve yew! Now if I could only figger out how to make that symbol....hmmm....something about ctrl+R, but I just tried that and all I got was an "r"....and Mac+R deleted my msg....maybe option+R ® HA HA! [victory dance-e]
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#91832
01/20/2003 8:41 PM
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ain't chargin' mg 'cause she's special.
Yeah.
OK. How's this?
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#91833
01/20/2003 9:16 PM
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Yeah.
OK. How's this?It's gettin' there, Faldo...but I think it still needs a "little" work.
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#91834
01/21/2003 11:00 AM
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it still needs a "little" work
I was quoting, Juan. I'm not going to correct it in a quote. That would be journalistically irresponsible. If it were a typo I'd maybe correct it, but it wasn't a typo, was it?
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#91835
01/21/2003 2:13 PM
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I was quoting, Juan.Faldage, I don't even know what the heck we're talking about!
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#91836
01/21/2003 2:16 PM
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#91837
01/21/2003 2:22 PM
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what the heck we're talking about!
Well, then, to mention it anymore would probably qualify as a reinyartation, and we wouldn't want that, would we?
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#91838
01/21/2003 2:22 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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#91839
01/21/2003 2:40 PM
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reinyart(n)ation
Faldo, you're hopelessly n-less!
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#91840
01/21/2003 2:51 PM
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n-less
Not to mention correct.
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#91841
01/21/2003 3:22 PM
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>correct You can't be "correct" with my coinage...you just don't want the N in there because it reminds you of all your Nit-picking, as evidenced by the case in point.
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#91842
01/21/2003 3:25 PM
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It's got plenty ns already. It don't need no more.
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#91843
01/21/2003 3:30 PM
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your coinage?! you darn well know that it is (at best(?)) an unauthorized and corrupted deracination of my coinage.
<hmph>
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#91844
01/21/2003 4:34 PM
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...up-rooted from the under-soil, no doubt.
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#91845
01/21/2003 4:50 PM
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your coinage?! you darn well know that it is (at best(?)) an unauthorized and corrupted deracination of my coinage.
<hmph> deracination schmerashinashun!
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#91846
01/21/2003 4:54 PM
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...up-rooted from the under-soil, no doubt.Et tu, ASpé? ...you...you hyphenmonger!
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#91847
01/21/2003 4:59 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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you hyphenmonger!
Hey, that's dashed insulting language towards a lady!
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#91848
01/21/2003 5:34 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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What would we call a group of commas?
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#91849
01/21/2003 7:26 PM
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What would we call a group of commas?
A pause for reflection?
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#91850
01/21/2003 10:30 PM
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this is all turning commacal...
formerly known as etaoin...
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#91851
01/23/2003 12:31 AM
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Well, if they're all stitched together I suppose you might call it a Comma Suture.
TEd
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#91852
01/23/2003 12:39 AM
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#91853
01/23/2003 1:43 AM
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commaestible Ha!
How about a chameleon of commas? Yes, as in comma comma comma comma comma chameleon...
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#91854
01/23/2003 1:54 AM
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Boy George, I think you've got it!
formerly known as etaoin...
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#91855
01/25/2003 6:10 PM
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All these witty expressions for prostitutes but none for a group of johns
A joint of Johns.
HA! (old lady chuckling evily and rubbing hands in glee - e)
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#91856
01/29/2003 8:15 PM
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