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Max, welcome back from whatever nether world you descended into over Christmas. Yes, I know my dislike of "dispatch" is inconsistent. Never claimed it wasn't. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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nemo>The absence of any emoticons after such a preposterous statement suggests that you have an extremely inflated sense of self-worth. If you were not serious, it would be advisable to let others know that. if you weren't a stranger, you'd know better about Max. those of us who've been here a while start to take things like this for granted more than we maybe should, but you could also read a bit more before you start chastising us, don't you think?   
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Welcome Back Max! We have indeed missed you!I hope dear nemo's misunderstanding of your flowery, fragrant and flagrant prose does not stop you from adorning these pages, long the poorer for your absence, with resplendent and glorious flights of grammarian gaudiness, for without your influence we, poor creatures that we are and so susceptible to inferior influences which abound in the press, on the airwaves and on television, would descend into banal, trite and trivial use of the English language which is, in all aspects including choice and color, one of the most magnificent languages ever to evolve and although I am sure each person is partial to the native tongue of his/her Motherland I must stand by my choice of English and your use of the language as one of the shining lights in an otherwise bleak and bland linguistic landscape.
{eye-popping, gasping emoticon here}
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wow, I agree completely! Max is wonderful! He doesn't speak all that often, but when he does, it is well worth
listening to!
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To wow, and Jackie and tsuwm I just want say thank you. It is said that the esteem of one's peers is something to be valued. If that is so, then to be esteemed by those who are one's superiors must be even more precious. Newton may have stood on the shoulders of giants, but this little pygmy (emphatic, not tautological) is surrounded by them here, and is humbled that they should defend him as they did. Thanks again, Max p.s. tsuwm, did you know that Ænigma thinks you're a tub?
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>p.s. tsuwm, did you know that Ænigma thinks you're a tub? this has been pointed out before, you ineffable yarter. 
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Sorry, Max. I know that Max is almost certainly not your real name, but, believe it or not, it is the name of my "other half", with whom I had recently exchanged sharp words. I guess that at the time I was kind of unimpressed with men generally, and seeing one with that name, well, you probably got a barb meant for another Max. Sorry
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this has been pointed out before, you ineffable yarter.
Couldn't stand the heat, huh?
And Max, you're more than welcome, but you're going to have
to stop implying that you're inferior, and that's all there
is to it, or I'll tickle you all the way home.
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Oooo Jackie, don`t tempt him, he might just say yes After all that absence, he might appreciate a little trip to the gutter. Welcome back MaxieQ.
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You couldn't pay me to drink out of lead pipes
Nor I but i like my cast iron waste pipes to be well sealed-- packed with oakum and a lead joint.. and old pipes sometime had a wiped lead joint where the trap met the stack. (Unlike some cities, NY has never suffered a major fire, or war, or flood, and there are many, many old building about. There are a whole host of term to define them, old Law tenement {before 1890}, new law tenement{up to about 1920's}, prewar{before WWII}, modern {Post WWII}. These terms just cover residental buildings.)
The Mad Hatter-- but is a hatter the same as milliner?--I didn't say it, but it was a woman talking, she was lamenting a lack of good hats, and not being able to find a hat maker to make her a custom one..
I am wonder about Hatter/milliner. Is it like taylor and seamstress? different terms for the same skill depending on the sex--gender- of the person employed to do the job?
The obe "archaic" trade that exists here now only in surnames would seem to be fletcher, as we still have smiths and farriers..
Well we still have farriers-- there are enough horses around. I even suggested it as career to my daughter when she was in her horse loving phase.. there is a school for farriers in kentucky-- which as Jackie once (in a long ago thread)pointed out, is the very heart of horse country in US--not that NY is far behind.. I am only a few miles from "run for Roses"-- the third leg of the triple crown of american horse racing that starts down Jackie's way.
There are no smiths-- sky scrapers have iron workers. which is very different trade.
But what is a fletcher?
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