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#131010 07/31/04 03:58 PM
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Heinzsight is always 20-20, except when it takes 60 minutes



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#131011 07/31/04 04:23 PM
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Now *that one I liked.


#131012 07/31/04 05:12 PM
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Heinzsight is 57 minutes, plus the commercial break.


#131013 07/31/04 06:34 PM
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pretty saucy, jenet...



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#131014 07/31/04 08:21 PM
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Snarky?

Thought it is a portmanteau word for snide remark. Could be wrong. Who knows?


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For snarky OED says "irritable, short-tempered."
For snark : snore, snort, find fault (with,) nag,
a fabulous animal, also an elusive truth or goal.

Well, guess that clears that up!
(how do you make a cross-eyed thingie with the keyboard?)


#131016 07/31/04 08:48 PM
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law or something about not having a Yugoslavian as First Lady?
Nope. However : The President, The U.S. Constitution says : "Clause 5: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."


#131017 07/31/04 08:59 PM
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Yugoslavian

How about a Moçambicana?



All seriousness aside, do we have an origin for "snarky"?


#131018 07/31/04 09:48 PM
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an origin for "snarky"

According to AHD4 it's from Dutch *and Low German.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/80/S0508050.html


#131019 08/01/04 09:43 AM
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"Irritable and short-tempered". Yep, that's snarky.


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