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#42960 10/02/01 05:03 PM
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Can't we have some pees around here?!?!?!



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s'all right, TEd. I shall mind my appease and accuse.

note to mav -- come join us! Let's get all four of us Marx Brothers together!

#42962 10/02/01 05:30 PM
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You want peas? I'll give you peas.

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=42046

Oh. Pees. Never mind.


#42963 10/02/01 07:01 PM
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In the recent PBS special on evolution, a researcher, who was expecting to find theories and/or at least the depth of discussions to extend beyond "social" interactions, was suprised to document (by eaves-dropping{sp?}) that more than 2/3rds of all discussions are "gossip like" and that the human is more of a *social being than an intellectual one (or some similar extrapolation)...

This reminded me of a previous "documentation" (not related to PBS) that revealed that there are three *kinds of people:

- Those that talk about people
- Those that talk about events
- Those that talk about ideas.

It is impossible (that ought to *stir things up) to be involved in one without referring or understanding the context of the other two, but...

Would it be presumptious to say that this discussion board generally seeks to focus on number three...?[snicker-e]


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Those that count and those that don't count.


#42965 10/02/01 07:10 PM
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Then where do you fit in..?


#42966 10/02/01 08:22 PM
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Can't we have some pees around here?!?!?!

Urine for it now, TEd!


#42967 10/02/01 08:23 PM
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Re:-Those that talk about people
- Those that talk about events
- Those that talk about ideas.


i heard it as people with:

Small minds talk about people.
mediocre minds talk about things.
great minds talk about ideas.
no mind at all talk about themselves..

the nuns used use this when ever any one was showing off -- especially after christmas, when many of us had few things to show off..

i find i alternate between being mindless, and great.. and mea culpa, but mindless wins all to often! but talking about food wins out over self and others. in the magnatude of sins, food is not so bad.




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I giggle, Jackie ROTFLHHO, we're such a happy bunch. Some . some , some some . Some are , , or, but mostly we all get along. Glad you have joined us Marigold. Welcome. Benvenidos.
Which category would you try to fit me in with this then, Musick?I have many chambers in my mind. Sometimes I enjoy a good snicker from the interplay of WORDS

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I prefer mounds myself.



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