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Originally Posted By: twosleepy
You got me stumped, Bran. What the heck is threeting?
error,error, error . It's not a barrel of trouble; I just made a tiny bit of a mistake.
I have never heard favorite pronounced as fivorite, but if it exists then 5orite is fine with me. Sixorite however is really not possible. (just a silly game allright, but what )

tsuwms word threaping (3ping smile )is a real decent word:
2. To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction;
also, to contend or argue against (another) with
obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was
so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Burns.
[1913 Webster]

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I finally watched the Victor Borge piece; I've always liked him, and that's a great one! He missed a few opportunities, though.

Okay, I got it now, Bran!

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
but the others are not exactly right.


ahem.

thre·ose
Pronunciation: 'thrE-"Os
Function: noun
: a syrupy synthetic sugar C4H8O4 that is the epimer oferythrose and that occurs as two optical isomers

Threne (?), n. [L. threnus, Gr. . Cf. Drone.] Lamentation; threnody; a dirge. Shak.

The threns . . . of the prophet Jeremiah. Jer. Taylor.


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But, but--C4H8O4 only has one O.

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Huh-Jacky? What's the O got to do with it?

3ose and 3ne are perfectly allright in this concept.( if you can call it concept )

threose
threne

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Besides, there are 4 Os in C4H8O4. Are we up to 6 yet? 6ten Sparre, the anit-hero of Elvira Madigan. Or, if you don't like proper names, there's always that regular column in Verbatim, 66ic!

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Originally Posted By: Jackie
But, but--C4H8O4 only has one O.


heh

Originally Posted By: Faldage
Besides, there are 4 Os in C4H8O4


heh2eh or is that heh2, or h4e2?


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7night!

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7night Yes yes yes !
No no no 8theism the h makes it incorrect, so,
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