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#110524 08/21/03 07:23 AM
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I guess it's the Shah of Schwa ~
... or are you just shwoing your humanity?

( - yes - there is a typo in there, but it is so serendipitous that I haven't the heart to spoil Faldage and AnnaS's enjoyment!


#110525 08/21/03 08:59 AM
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ur

/RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

uh


#110526 08/21/03 11:00 AM
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[ white] - yes - there is a typo in there, but it is so serendipitous that I haven't the heart to spoil Faldage and AnnaS's enjoyment! [ /white]

Thank you!!







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spoil Faldage and AnnaS's enjoyment!


Huh! If'n you hadn't'a pointed it out I'd'a never noticed it.


#110528 08/21/03 01:15 PM
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OK, then
( - yes - there is a typo in there, but it is so serendipitous that I haven't the heart to spoil .................. AnnaS's enjoyment!



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What's curious and intersting about this is just yesterday I was writing about something--and I wrote I was (or someone was) having a 'high old time.' And then I posted. But when I went back and read what I'd posted I'd actually written that I (or someone else) was having a 'high whole time.' Weird. So I edited what I'd written. This is just too coincidental and I'm wondering whether Faldage had read what I'd written before I went back and edited. Could have been. If so, then it was simply a matter of typing quickly and a word that sounded like 'old' slipping in subconsciously. But if it wasn't my post, then it is truly coincidental.

Edit: I returned to the site and the edit I am sure I made didn't appear on my post. Anyway, Faldage, I'm assuming that it was my post to which you were referring and I would like to go on record here saying that I typed in haste and didn't mean 'high whole time' at all--but didn't catch the error till I edited. And I did correct it. But must have pushed the wrong button so the edit didn't go through. Sorry about the confusion. I've never heard of a high whole time till I read what I'd written yesterday.

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tut! tut! darlin'
If nobody ever flubbed what ever would we talk about?


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hah, lovely word, wow! I haven't heard that used for a while, and now I can't even find out where it came from, apart from vague "1904 - origin uncertain" type references.


#110532 08/23/03 12:07 AM
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both W3 and OED agree, origin unknown.


#110533 08/24/03 09:58 PM
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The phrase is definately of West Indian Origin , and is

translated thus : A [I am ] High [drunk ] whole time

[all the time]. Another guy may say : Me pisstoratically

sweet all the time....or Him sugared all the time.

Same thing ..the guy is forever drunk.





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