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#212228 - 08/21/13 04:36 PM Re: Thrust home! [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it.
Cyrano was as real - and as fictionalized - as was Casanova !
#212230 - 08/21/13 05:23 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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My brain reels. Reality melts away.
You and Anu conspire to keep me wrong.
Please excuse me while I go plot.
#212231 - 08/21/13 05:45 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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You're not wrong; you were right. I was the one wrong.
Twice, even!
#212233 - 08/21/13 08:43 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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PRONUNCIATION: (SY-ruhn)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A beautiful and seductive woman, especially one leading others into disaster.
2. Something attractive that is potentially disastrous.
3. A device that makes loud sounds, used for warning signals.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Siren, one of a group of sea nymphs, whose enchanting singing lured sailors to shipwreck on the rocks around their island. Also see femme fatale. Earliest documented use: 1340.
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SIRENT:
1. a silent siren
2. a siren for rent
#212235 - 08/22/13 12:13 AM Joined: May 2010
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A person who attracts people of either gender with seductive poetry.
#212243 - 08/22/13 10:51 AM Joined: Aug 2001
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Mmm. That's elegant !
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#212250 - 08/22/13 04:11 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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GORGON
PRONUNCIATION: (GOR-guhn)
MEANING: noun: An ugly, repulsive, or terrifying woman.
ETYMOLOGY: After Gorgon, any of the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair. They turned into stone anyone who looked into their eyes. From Greek gorgos (dreadful). Earliest documented use: 1398.
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GOREGON -- Freddy Kreuger went to Portland (or Edward Scissorhands, or whoever)
#212251 - 08/22/13 05:48 PM Tomorrow has better be Frankenstein [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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GORGEN
1. a small gorge
2. a big feast
#212254 - 08/23/13 12:17 AM Joined: Aug 2001
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Getting ready to attack the day: (see how much confidence I have in you?!)
DRANKENSTEIN - what they did in the Hofbräuhaus when all the glasses were dirty
Runner-up:
FRANKENSTAIN - mustard
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