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X-Bonus
The greatest analgesic(1), soporific(2), stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic (3), and to some extent even antibiotic -- in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea (4)-- known to medical science is work. -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (b. 1920)
and placebo(5) (a cure for nothing) in contrast to panacea
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To the contrary I find those terms apply when I'm in my cups with a good supply of nice, cold brew
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Do I understand you to mean that a nice, cold brew is an
analgesic, a soporific, a stimulant, a tranquilizer, a narcotic, a panacea and a placebo?
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On another point, I like the idea of promoting the x-bonus because its one of the main reasons I visit wordsmith.org each day.
A colleague often does not remember the word of the day, but can quote the x-bonus verbatim
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Welcome aBoard, BrianK...British Columbia? You and others can read the Xplanation of X-bonus here.
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While we're explaining things, what's up with the numbers/bolding the OP has added in?
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I thought he'd done it himself, Myr. Only thing I can think of.
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While we're explaining things, what's up with the numbers/bolding the OP has added in? I'd have thought - actually, I did think - that he was merely high-lighting and enumerating the Medical Terms to which he (the Original Poster) was referring. - ron o.
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... but why those 4 terms and the 5th term he added and not stimulant, tranquilizer and antibiotic? I don't get the "referring" you're referring to. What's the connection? What does his comment mean? I'm totally in the dark... maybe I "fell back" a week too soon?
Last edited by Myridon; 10/30/07 06:57 AM.
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