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tsuwm says, yeahrt, but, citing this board's discussion a while ago.
Proving once again the maxim that, as each new generation must learn, "There's nothing new under the tsuwn."
However erudite one may be, tsuwm was di(c)ting ere you. Still (Father Steve's image coming smilingly to mind), it's fun for us young'uns to tinker with the same toys our revered elders enjoyed in their youth!
Post-edit: The above paragraph has been correctively edited. It's third word had been "you", the referant of which was ambiguous and could have been taken to be "tsuwm", entirely changing the meaning from the compliment intended.
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Sorry, mav, but twusm has tinkered somewhat with your version, and as the son of a patent lawyer I can tell you that your registration of "yeahbut®" -- a fine term indeed -- would not cover "yeahrt, but". You should have gotten a better copyright lawyer to file that registration for you! 
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...nicely evading the issue; I guess you just don't give a tinker's curse. oh well, I don't care two tinker's straws -- I'll just retreat to tinkerdom and my usual tinkery with words.
(or to quote a really old proverb: Even as the Bell tinketh whatsoever the foole thinketh.)
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When I read what Plutarch wrote -- Your son's maternal grandfather was an engineer so he wanted to see how things worked, Father Steve. Or maybe he just wanted to see if he could put them back together again ... in which case he is more than "Tinkersome". He's an "afixionado". -- I passed out on the floor next to my computer.
When I awoke, a fire department medic with an Hispanic accent was looking over me. His partner asked, "Did Father Steve have a heart attack?" "No," the first fireman replied, "he was just asphyxianado."
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But did you know that you should never try to get a tinker to become a monk? Would you ever(s) lead tinkers to chants???
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c'mon teD!! that's not cricket.
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that's not cricket.
And a good thing, too.
Is it possible to get a double play in cricket?
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Would you ever(s) lead tinkers to chants???  "These were the saddest of possible words..." 
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>>Is it possible to get a double play in cricket?
>It is. It is very rare, and difficult....
well, that sounds just like a triple play then.
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