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#164122 12/08/06 09:06 PM
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That's really a good q. It's probably a 3 and I shouldn't be using it, but I like it. On another board someone used the word to describe my threads, and I liked it so I adopted it, using it to refer to myself in a couple of later threads. But great turmoil ensued when they now tore me limb from limb, threatening to ban me, for using an obscure word


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But great turmoil ensued when they now tore me limb from limb, threatening to ban me, for using an obscure word

I begin to sympathize.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
#164124 12/09/06 01:33 AM
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Almost any division into three can be called simplistic.




What?! Everything comes in threes. Faith, hope and charity; the three billy goats gruff; the three wise men; Shirley, goodness and mercy; borders, books and musick; lawyers, guns and money. Everything.

#164125 12/09/06 01:41 PM
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Oh, I laughed out loud! Thanks!

#164126 12/12/06 09:01 PM
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Almost any division into three can be called simplistic.




What?! Everything comes in threes. Faith, hope and charity; the three billy goats gruff; the three wise men; Shirley, goodness and mercy; borders, books and musick; lawyers, guns and money. Everything.



"Ramans do everything in threes"

#164127 12/13/06 01:15 AM
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How did you noodle that?


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#164128 12/15/06 01:13 PM
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Fal: Yes you are absolutely right, it's a habit of the mind to divide into threes. When I called it simplistic, I meant in many such cases by diligent application one could with some justification add a fourth or even fifth category

Or in some cses remove one that can be shown slighty redundant, leaving only two

I intend no such attempt myself but other members are cordially invited to try


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but.. but..
what about my thirty-seven (30) subcategories for snooty -- some of which have absolutely nothing to do with snootiness?!

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tsu: What about them


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