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Most words coined and used within a family are best kept within the group of origin. Every family, I suspect, has a number of these: silly words, familiar to all the occupants of the house where they have currency, with a shared meaning to insiders and no or little meaning to outsiders.
We evolved a new one (new to us, anyway) at our house which I think might deserve a wider usage. When experimenting in the kitchen, some of the results are adequate, some are inedible, and some are what we term "guestworthy" -- in the sense that we will add them to the small collection of recipes which we deem presentable to visitors at our dining room table. A recipe has to be really good to fit into this category. We honour our guests my presenting them with only the best food we know how to prepare.
How do you like our coinage?
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I like it.
Elaine Benes might wonder in turn if a given guest were spongeworthy.
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I like it. It's along the same lines as the meals a friend prepares that he calls "dateworthy".
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sometimes these things aren't as fresh as one might think.
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~Ari
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Ooo, this just reminded me of when we were young and my Mom had all of our family over for Christmas eve. We'd start setting up at around 7 p.m. and that's when she'd start to say, "don't eat those, they're for the guests."  ================================== Ari, I'm not sure what you were trying to say.
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That's a really good story. For me the object of the scolding was always the black olives in the relish tray.
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belMarduk: That was when tsuwm had a line break in his url for "fresh as" and it didnt work as a URL Link, just text that was split by a line break. Hes fixed it now.
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Ah. Well good, he must have understood since it's fixed.
I thought you were talking in the "L33t5p34k" like etaoin described in the other thread.
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