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Damnit Plutarch! You changed the subject line to "Festive Blurbs" without permission. Now do you see why no one wants you to be their sock puppet?   (Sorry Musick, and forgive me Father Steve, but keeping up with Plutarck is more trouble than keeping track of coachfittings at the Autojumble.) "As always, I look for a moral in your stories, themilum, and it seems to be this:
There is no reward for being right in the wrong circles." No Plutarch, that is your moral to my stories. My own moral was this... The understanding of reality is not only the best approach to life, it is the only pursuit that makes life worth living....or something like that. Besides, I was mad at Wordwind because she said "thank you " to Faldage when I did all the work all he did was open his damn car door. 
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No Plutarch, that is your moral to my stories.Well, you're always asking me if I "Get it?", themilum, so I thought I would make you proud of me by proving that I do "get it" before you felt the need to ask. re "The understanding of reality is not the best approach to life, it is the only pursuit that makes life worth living."Having missed the kudos you truly deserved from Wordwind*, I can understand why you would want to take my moral of your story and put it into your own words. The heroes of history I spoke of are always fighting the establishment or the established view to extend our "understanding of reality". While you may greet the new reality with open arms, themilum, I can assure you that those who lose stature or privilege by reason of it have no affection for progress. All of human history stands witness to that. * Now who's "playing the martyr", themilum? Did you suppose there would be no repercussions for defending Plutarch when no-one else would defend him? The kindest thing I could do for you, themilum, would be to renounce you. But then I would have to renounce my own principles. And what's a martyr without his principles?
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Father Steve--welcome back! Didja have a nice trip?
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yes, and thank you musick and Father Steve for your attempts to wrench this thread back onto "Q&A about words".
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thank you ... for your attempts to wrench this thread back onto "Q&A about words"Nice one, tsuwm. If we had a rummage sale for collectible old words, what would we call it? [If not WFFTD, of course. ] It's never a good idea to use a wrench on a thread, however. Father Steve's methods are usually more adroit than that. If a screw is loose, what is wanted is a screwdriver not a wrench. A loose screw screwed tight can prevent a Board from warping.
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welcome back! Didja have a nice trip?
Surprise! We are not yet returned from our journey to the Sandwich Islands. This message is written to you from the beach at Ka'anapali on beautiful Maui. Aren't these lap-top devices the most marvelous of inventions?
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"...Plutarch! You changed the subject line to "Festive Blurbs"..."Ouch! My liver! ...or maybe, as the German *folks would sing, "Auch du lieber ,Augustin" (for different reasons) 
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This message is written to you from the beach !!! I thought you were going to be gone for two weeks. Was that you in that commercial, then?  You can have your beach; I'll take the lovely snow flurries we had yesterday and today (at LAST!). musick, shouldn't that have been "Ouch -- du liver, Augustin"?
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"...Plutarch! You changed the subject line to "Festive Blurbs"..." ... Ouch! My liver!If I changed it to "festive blurbs", Musick, you changed it to "festive burps" ... and Jackie just changed it to "festive burbs".
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Milo, I did say thank you to Faldage for telling me where the festoon bulb might be located in a car.
But I just gave him three words, and I gave you by far more words--and a question. Actually, questions are very good, don't you think, because they open up more conversation than a mere thank you. And I didn't think you were wrong--I just wanted to know where you'd read that Christmas tree lights were festoon lights because I read your entire link and even links within the link looking for festoon lights there. And all I found were festoons of lights, which is altogether a different thing.
And I would never have told you to stick in your lower lip and go stand off somewhere. I would have asked you how you derived your answer. And then I would have said, "Thank you, Milo."
Thank you, Milo, for keeping us honest. If confused. At times. Thank you.
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