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WANDUCATE – To teach at Hogwarts.

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XANDUCATE -Kubla Khan's school, located on the banks of the Alph River

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MA-EDUCATE- home schooling

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MANDULATTE - coffee so thick and strong that you have to chew it

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LANDUCATE - to chew up lands in the name of restoring a state of eco-stasis.
Example: the re-introduction of warthogs to Yellowstone National Park because they were snorting around during the Pleistocene.

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POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE

PRONUNCIATION: (pol-ee-fi-luh-pro-JEN-uh-tiv)

MEANING: adjective: Extremely prolific.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (many) + philo- (loving) + Latin progenitive (producing offspring), from pro- (toward) + past participle of gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1919, in a poem by T.S. Eliot.

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POLYP-HILL-PROGENITIVE - making lots of coral reefs


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Wow, wofa. Wow.

POLYPHILOPROGERITIVE – The life-extending quality of having many lovers after retirement.

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Very clever indeed! Although possibly open to misinterpretation - I would have guessed it meant aging very fast, and prematurely ("progeria"). I offer as evidence a very old joke:

...Young cub reporter on her first Human Interest assignment goes to a Nursing Home to interview the oldest resident she can see.

"What do you owe your age to?" she ventures.

"Three things," he says. "I smoke a carton of cigarettes every day. I drink a quart of bourbon daily. I never sleep with the same woman twice...and I never go to bed alone!" comes the reply.

"Oh, my goodness," says the sweet young thing. "And just how old are you?

"Twenty-three," he says...

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POLYPHILOPREGENITIVE - first you love mankind...then you have kids.









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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

Very clever indeed! Although possibly open to misinterpretation - I would have guessed it meant aging very fast, and prematurely ("progeria"). I offer as evidence a very old joke:

...Young cub reporter on her first Human Interest assignment goes to a Nursing Home to interview the oldest resident she can see.

"What do you owe your age to?" she ventures.

"Three things," he says. "I smoke a carton of cigarettes every day. I drink a quart of bourbon daily. I never sleep with the same woman twice...and I never go to bed alone!" comes the reply.

"Oh, my goodness," says the sweet young thing. "And just how old are you?

"Twenty-three," he says...



Love it, wofa!


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