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Re:is doing a Norm Crosby? and what is a Norm Crosby!?
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Exasperating+persisting+prevaricating would describe the afore mentioned pita....
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re Norm Crosby;
"King of the malaprop, Norm always speaks from his 'diagram' and drinks'decapitated' coffee. His confusing word play and twisted speech has been an audience favorite since his days on The Ed Sullivan Show."
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Re:is doing a Norm Crosby? and what is a Norm Crosby!?Helen, Norm Crosby was a stand-up comedian whose whole act was comprised of a steady stream of malapropisms...it was funny stuff!  His career peaked in the 60's and 70's, but he still gets casino gigs, etc. He was almost a fixture on shows like The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I'm pretty sure he coined, "Hey! I resemble that remark!" And welcome, barnwitch, to our merry band of marauding wordsters!
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Oops, barnwitch! Our Crosbys crossed 'in the mail'! 
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I absolutely love Norm Crosby!
And welcome barnwitch! Nice to see another New Yorker aBoard.
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Dear tsuwm: thanks for that phrase "a sop to Cerberus" searching for it yielded a site with a lot of information about cerberus: http://www.cerbslair.com/cerberus.html
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I checked back to the original post, and found I wasn't the only person who hit the dictionaries for this word. Someone there suggested the person was trying to use the word 'cerebrating'. But then the sentence makes absolutely no sense at all. AVOID thinking, pondering, reflecting, meditating and still come up with a cogent response??
I think it was a clear case of someone trying to use a big word to impress people and failing miserably at it.
And thanks for the warm welcomes!!
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Isn't one thread full of dung enough?
Beetle's me.
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