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And I am still mildly bullshit
And I am puzzled about the meaning of bullshit as used in this context. Does this mean peeved? The only slang meaning of bullshit I know, as confirmed by my slang dictionary, is nonsense.
Interesting - whilst looking up bullshit, I discovered a synonym for bullshitter and bullshit artist which I'd not yet heard: bullshartest, which is, apparently, Australian.
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tsuwm: You are not adept at telepathy.
Dear Sparteye : bullshit in that context means genuinely annoyed, unless degree specified.
Dear VC: we had discussions, very amateurish, at great length, in total ignorance of something that had a couple years previously been explained expertly and thoroughly by Mr. Quinion. Talk about beating a dead horse!
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wow wrote : it had the "plug" for AWAD in it
Jazzo replied : Um . . . actually it doesn't. Many sites refer to a word of the day (M-W, OED), and if you look at dictionary.com you'll notice in the upper right that it's not AWAD that he's talking about.
Another "senior moment" strikes. You are ab-so-tive-ly right JazzO.
Ah, well, it was an honest mistake.
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Nothing wrong with it. British science and technology was by and large amateur for nearly 200 years and look where that got us. Now, where was that, precisely?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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>we had discussions, very amateurish, at great length, in total ignorance of something that had a couple years previously been explained expertly and thoroughly by Mr. Quinion.
To which I am still moved to reply, so what? I respect your right to view things differently, but I just cannot see what the big deal is that a discussion on this Board covered a topic already discussed elsewhere. What harm was done by this? You set the bar dangerously high by suggesting that we may never discuss things that others already have. I understood that the purpose of this Board was to provide a place for entertaining, informative discussions about words. If that understanding is correct, I couldn't care less if somebody somewhere has already discussed a topic that comes up here. I have read posts from you in which you have strongly condemned the use of the phrase "YART", which has something to do with "rehashed threads", I think. If you don't like people complaining about rehashed threads on this board why complain about a topic here being rehashed from another board?
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Well argued, Vernon. After all, we certainly don' need no steenkin' YARB calls, now, do we?  And Dr Bill, one thing we surely *do manage on this board is a pretty good networking of any resources discovered interesting by individual members? If occasionaly we may take for granted that everyone already knows about something, your admonition is a useful reminder that newcomers may find such information useful too.
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Dear mav: I believe I have a legitimate grievance about rehashing topics covered fully a couple years ago by quinion et al., when there were members who knew about his site. And there were a few members unwilling to share their knowledge about such sites.
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>And there were a few members unwilling to share their knowledge about such sites.
as one who originally posted a *long list of other sites, and maintains one on my site, I can only say *bullshit* (to coin a farce).
as for Quinion, he was first mentioned here by some oldtimer (ycliu) back in April of 2000 (there ain't much more back than that), any many times thereafter.
there are a great many things wrong in this world, and on this board; but this (in my opinion) isn't one of them.
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Dear tsuwm: if you knew about Quinion in April 2000. why did you not use that knowledge to cut short some of the ridiculously protracted threads?
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why?
1. michael's site is humungous. I wish I had the time to take it all in.
2. I am presumptuous at times, but so far not that.
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