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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread The finest thing #30144 05/24/01 02:31 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 275 W wordcrazy OP enthusiast OP wordcrazy enthusiast W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 275 We really are a lucky band of men and women to have found a realm where we can indulge in the things we love most---words, both beautiful and weird, poetry, languages, and more words. To celebrate my becoming a member a few minutes ago, I would like to share with you a quote from Homer that perfectly sums up what we are and what we are doing in some of the most recent popular threads like "sublime rime" and "sonnets" and a thread that was started by Maverick , a while ago, about quotes. Here goes-- As form me, I know nothing So completely delightful as a land where the people are filled With good humor, and those that feast in the halls sit quietly At tables covered with good things to eat and listen To the songs of a poet, while the wine-bearer draws wine from the bowl And fills the goblets of all. This seems to me The finest thing in the world. Odysseus to King Alcinous, Book IX, The Oddyssey of Homer What would be the finest thing (a place, an adventure, an epiphany, an extraordinary happening) in the world for you? chronist Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The finest thing #30145 05/24/01 02:45 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Congrats, WC, on achieving membership. I'm afraid that the finest thing for me would be something amazingly mundane, like being able to sleep in or watch a half-hour long TV show uninterrupted. [looking-disapprovingly-at-my-boys emoticon] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,318 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 775 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 13 LukeJavan8 1 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,535 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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