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I'm going to swipe the padre's curmudgeon hat here

1. When do I get my hat back?
2. Is the cranky person who initiated this thread a sock puppet as implied? If so, for which troll?

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2. Is the cranky person who initiated this thread a sock puppet as implied? If so, for which troll?





Well, Stag Beetle's fondness for ad hominem attacks suggests that the possibility is very real. Apparently insulting me in Maaori is supposed to prove something. Quite what, I can't be arsed figuring out.

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Miasma, I love that word. I use it as a synonym for a "bad vibe" that you get from certain places or rooms.


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This thread's going well.

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Apparently insulting me in Maori is supposed to prove something.




Arohaina tou hoa kia pena ano i a koe.

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meretricious (and a happy new year)


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This thread's going well.




See, Stag Beetle, you needn't have gotten mad, now everyone's jumping in and having fun and suppling cool words that they find useful.

Here's mine...

cyclothem : a geological term for a repeating cycle of alternating layers of different types of sedimentary rock.

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latrinalia- bathroom graffiti

pseudocyesis- physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant


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