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I wish to announce that I have become an eponym.

http://notmuch.com/Speak/BBS/Odds-And-Ends/816x3.html

I post this here merely to add to my resumé the line World famous Eponym.


#20924 03/02/01 02:13 PM
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Well, good for you!! Quite a coup.

Now, go change the Profile.

wow (High Priestess)


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I know this is coming full circle, but it seems (somehow) apropos to the situation....

faldage - [Law] An old privilege by which a lord of the manor could set up folds in any fields within the manor, in which his tenants were obliged to put their sheep, the object being to manure the land.

-joe bfstplk


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Thank you, tsuwm. That explains a lot. [irresistable impulse emoticon]


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As Theodore Sturgeon said: "Right. 90% of everything is crap!"

Or as Anon so aptly put it, "Remember. Everything we eat has, at one time or other, been eaten before."



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