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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

KINGDOME COME - the Seattle Seahawks are building a new stadium! See the Old Kingdome bite the dust here.


Wait! Just because the old Kingdome has been demolished it doesn't have to be the end of the world. If we pull together we can ressurect it. A new Kingdome can be built from the ruins.
Seahawk lovers please send $25 dollars or more to...

KINGDOME.COM - the official online website to restore Kingdome Stadium.

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royal road

PRONUNCIATION: (ROI-uhl road)

MEANING:
noun: An easy way to achieve something.

ETYMOLOGY:
According to the philosopher Proclus, when King Ptolemy asked for an easy way to learn, Euclid replied that there is no royal road to geometry. Royal Road was a highway in ancient Persia. Earliest documented use: 1793.
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When Euclid told King Ptolemy there was no royal road to geometry and King Ptolemy told Euclid to kiss his royal ass. Instead Euclid gave the King a...

LOYAL TOAD - a well-trained frog that eats the annoying flies flying about Ptolemy as he labours to understand geometry.



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ROYAL READ - a history of hemophilia through the ages

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TROYAL GOAD - to horsewink someone into allowing entry into their private space e.g. as the Greeks gained entry to inside the walls of the Troyals. wink

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kingmaker

PRONUNCIATION: (KING-may-kuhr)
MEANING:
noun: A person or organization having great power and influence in the selection of a candidate for an important position.

ETYMOLOGY:
The term was originally applied to Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, as "Warwick the Kingmaker" during the Wars of the Roses. Earliest documented use: 1595.
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KINGTAKER - George Washington

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KINGFAKER an Elvis impersonator


----please, draw me a sheep----
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KLINGMAKER - the guy who invented Spandex

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MINGMAKER - Zhu Yuanzhang was the founder and first Ming of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu lead a small army of peasants against a million man army that marched to the wishes of tenured teachers, rich bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, and power-hungry governmentals who overtaxed the farmers and craftsmen and denied fundamental rights to everyone except thier brother-in-law. You know...much like today. frown


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...and that's why he was called Ming the Merciless...

(and I'm going back to the 30s serial!)

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