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Ever one to oblige a lady, I direct your attention to today's daily word and the daily quotation at
http://bartleby.com, faldages favorite on-line dictionary. For those of you who may not check before today ends and bartleby changes, today's the word, definition and quotation appear below.

marplot NOUN: An officious meddler whose interference compromises the success of an undertaking.
ETYMOLOGY: After Marplot, a character in The Busy Body, a play by Susannah Centlivre

Quotation (author born on this date, January 30, in 1882):
"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ah, yes, CK's wife had a close encounter with a rattler in...shoot, somewhere on the East coast--North Carolina? It was his fault, too. As to marplot--I felt my face strangely warm, reading that. I fear I have been known to be a marplot in my time. Mixed results.

Ah, yes, CK's wife had a close encounter with a rattler in...shoot, somewhere on the East coast--North Carolina?

Virginia. Shenandoah Valley. Skyline Drive.

Keiva, how do you pronounce that?

bel, YCLIU: http://bartleby.com

Dear Jackie: The only plots you could ever have marred were those of rascals.