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#209845 - 02/28/13 05:43 PM Re: A tough one... [Re: jenny jenny]
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ORCHETYPE -- what Nero Wolfe is obsessed by.
#209848 - 02/28/13 07:36 PM Joined: Nov 2011
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I'm immortal until proven otherwise
#209855 - 02/28/13 10:36 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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Land of the Flat Water
Listening to the rants of Archie Bunker.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#209859 - 03/01/13 02:23 PM Oh well... [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
PRONUNCIATION:(dak-tuh-LOG-ruh-fee)
MEANING:
noun: The study of fingerprints as a means of identification.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek dactylo- (finger or toe) + -graphy (writing). Earliest documented use: 1884.
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DACTYLORAPHY - when a rapper does that crazy handjive
#209860 - 03/01/13 04:48 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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based on finger prints.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#209863 - 03/01/13 08:04 PM Joined: Nov 2011
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Lancaster, UK
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
#209894 - 03/04/13 02:27 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
PRONUNCIATION:(JEL-uh-sin)
MEANING:
noun: A dimple in the cheek that appears when someone smiles.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek gelaein (to laugh), which also gave us the words agelast (one who never laughs) and hypergelast (one who laughs too much). Earliest documented use: 1608.
USAGE:
"Gelasin is this pretty little dimple of which Martial says:
His is the face less gracious
Who has not the gelasin joyous."
Laurent Joubert; Treatise on Laughter; University of Alabama Press; 1980.
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AGELASIN: the inability to dimple
#209898 - 03/04/13 04:52 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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TELASIN
-what confession's for.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#209899 - 03/04/13 06:38 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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For me it takes hours.
#209900 - 03/04/13 06:44 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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Land of the Flat Water
something about a journey of a thousand miles begins with
a single step. Wonder how much the old confession is used
any more, the Roman Church seems to pretty much have thrown the
baby out with the bath water.
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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