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#167086 03/22/07 12:43 PM
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“No word in the English language rhymes with orange, month, silver, or purple.”


Oh, yeah?

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Yeah. Those are obscure, dialectical, obsolete, outmoded, etc., etc. Certainly the author of that pretentious piece is technically correct, but for almost all intents and purposes the statement about no rhymes is correct.


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Don't you forget florange ? An orange blooming flower.

(weird things right now . Board mutters.) Maybe it'll get through

Funny link, oh yeah ...

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> (weird things right now . Board mutters.) Maybe it'll get through

yeah. like eight times...

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>Maybe it'll get through

could you repeat that?!

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But something very interesting it was! This only came once in a lifetime.

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look at that! scroll bars on individual posts -- no more "wide threads."

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
look at that! scroll bars on individual posts -- no more "wide threads."

-joe friday



say what?


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Originally Posted By: BranShea
If I do it now one by one I'll sit here till midnight.


"edit" "delete post" shouldn't take more than about five to ten seconds per post.


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And he forgot "norange" which is what the fruit should be called. Leave "Orange" to King Billy.

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