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#131000 07/30/04 10:55 PM
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Arianna Huffington wrote a column about Teresa Heinz Kerry in which she said "Almost every story about her these days includes at least one snarky remark ..."

Snarky?




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snippy little comments coming from jealousy and condescension.



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aka boojumesque


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"...one snarky remark."

I can't really tell out of context, but it could mean sarcastic here.

max: ha!

edit: here's the entire article:
http://www.alternet.org/story/19301/


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I thought it might have something to do with the snark, as in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark," which is, perhaps, what Max is suggesting, obliquely.


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Sorry, padre, couldn't help myself. Snarky is so common a word here that defining it seems hard, hence my dodge, son.


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Sorry, padre, couldn't help myself.

Usually, repentence is a precondition to absolution, but I'll let you off without a penance on this one.



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>but I'll let you off without a penance on this one.

Even though I'd done it again? Thanks.


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better get out of dodge, max...



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Snarky...

I got it, it's an acronym!

Snappy neo-hippie arrogant rich kook Yugoslavian.

(But...uh, isn't there a law or something about not having a Yugoslavian as First Lady?)






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