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#215386 - 05/07/14 05:50 PM
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...restarting because our alphabetical spammer has posted in Mensopause II, and Moderatrix can't delete if the post has been replied to... ______________________________________________________ SAMSONPRONUNCIATION: (SAM-suhn) MEANING: noun: A man of extraordinary physical strength. ETYMOLOGY: After Samson, a judge in the Old Testament, known for his great strength. From Hebrew Simson (man of sun). Earliest documented use: 1565 ----------------------------------- SANSAN - a tiny piquant-tasting lozenge for freshening the breath of Japanese gentlemen
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#215393 - 05/07/14 11:58 PM
SAMSON
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SANSAN - a tiny piquant-tasting lozenge for freshening the breath of Japanese gentlemen
Hey, Wofa, that's TWO changes. You can't do that, it's against the Roooz ! Oops, you're right. I take it back. Try again: SALMSON - red caviar, hatched and grown-up
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#216650 - 05/08/14 03:26 PM
Where's that Yoda when you need him?
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JEREMIAD
PRONUNCIATION: (jer-uh-MY-uhd)
MEANING: noun: A long lamentation, mournful complaint, or a prophecy of doom.
ETYMOLOGY: After Jeremiah, a Hebrew prophet during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, who prophesied the fall of the kingdom of Judah and whose writings are collected in Lamentations in the Old Testament. Earliest documented use: 1780. Also see jeremiah.
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JEDEMIAD - A long lamentation, mournful complaint, or a prophecy of doom, regarding the return of the Empire for three more episodes...with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, plus younger versions of same
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#216659 - 05/10/14 04:21 PM
Re: 'Atsa toughie
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I think I'll go with
METHOUSELAH - the sixth note of an opera singer's scale (MET HOUSE "LAH")
Hey, not bad, Codoc. To my many self-described highbrow friends I will begin describing my many pothead friends as being... "...higher than a MET House Lah". 
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#216665 - 05/12/14 05:06 AM
Monday's Word: Two for one.
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lazaretto
PRONUNCIATION: (laz-uh-RET-o)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A medical facility for people with infectious diseases.
2. A building or ship used for quarantine.
3. On a ship, a space between decks used as storage.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Italian lazzaretto, a blend of lazzaro + Nazareto. Lazzaro is the Italian version of the name Lazarus, the name of a beggar covered in sores as described in the New Testament (Luke 16:20). Nazareto was the nickname of a hospital, after Santa Maria di Nazareth, the name of the Church on the island where it was located. Earliest documented use: 1549.
USAGE:
"The Council House was a frame building, away from the rest, that had been built in the old, wilder days as a lazaretto for surly drunks."
Kurt Vonnegut; Player Piano; Charles Scribner's Sons; 1952.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. -Katharine Hepburn, an actress who had fun for 96 years (1907-2003)
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LAZYRETTO - a mental hospital for purposeless people who don't know that just being alive is fun.
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