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I am a southernly-blowing Wordwind and have the turbulent accent to prove it!
There is no turbulence in your accent, Wordwind. As I said, its really none of my business. I won't be back. I've caused enough disturbance in one day. And, Plutarch. He won't be back either. He's a mess. He looks like that Proctor fellow lying under the cot when Prot returned to K-Pac. Comatose as a cabbage.
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I am a southernly-blowing Wordwind and have the turbulent accent to prove it!Whoa, I'd better get my eyes checked--for a second, there, I was wondering how a wordwind could have a tubalent accent. 
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Good Morning, Jackie...
I just checked tubalent on OneLook and came up with nada. What would tubalent mean, if it's not a word, and, of course, what is it if it is? It sounds rather brassy to me.
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Dear WW: just to be preposterous, a couple of guys in my unit in Philippines were "tubalent" all the time we were on Leyte. This was intoxication they claimed was induced by "tuba" which was fermented cocoanut milk made by the natives. But when we had to move our supplies by ship to go to Manila, it was discovered that in spite of having been in a chickenwire protected enclosure, all of the five gallon cans of laboratory alcohol were empty. Evidently a pole with a nail had been used to puncture them, and a pole with a cup used to catch the contents.
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wwh, thanks for that great story about the coconut concococoction...
The coconut tuba isn't in my AMH I have here at school. I'm on my lunch break, so I'll do a Google search to see what comes up, if anything.
I did think you'd enjoy knowing the the derivation of coconut (or cocoanut) goes back to the Portuguese word for "goblin," I just learned. The Portuguese word is "coco," but the accent is too small in my dictionary to make out; that "coco" can mean grinning skull, goblin or coconut.
I know recipes aren't allowed, but I'll hide one here: Drill out the eyes of the coconut; pour out the milk; mix coconut milk with lots of vodka; pour back into shell; put a bit of aluminum foil into the holes and sealeach one with wax; by Christmas, if you do this Thanksgiving, you will have a very nice coconut liqueur.
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Lucky I remembered language on Leyte was "Visayan". Using that, I found a site: 2.The Cebuano Tuba ... guides us to the old Visayan culture of drink. The early Visayans knew five basic kinds of alcoholic drinks. The most popular was tuba, the fermented sap of ... http://www.esprint.com.ph/pointcebu/culture/drink1.htm More Results From: www.esprint.com.ph I haven't looked at it, but I bet it will not say fermentation was allegedly induced by urinating into juice. That may have been a ploy to keep us from drinking it. It sure deterred me. Postscript: Dear WW; in answer to your PM about interdict, I am reminded of a post quite a while ago that you may have missed, and might amuse others who have joined recently: 1.Hugh Gallagher's 'College Essay' ... with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles ... my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. ... http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/joke/essay.htm
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Hi folks, I'm George Vowell, Collin's cousin. Collin was kind enuf to put in a plug for my book "Alphabet Farm". Frankly, the book hasn't been selling all that well lately. Truth is, it never caught on with the rest of the alphabet. So I'm working on a sequel, "Alphabet Manor". Anyway, this was an unscheduled appearance, so I won't take up more of your time. Collin would send his best but I think u have already seen it.
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Dear George Vowell: Are you an alphatist in disguise? Guising ended a couple weeks ago. It is getting cold and we need new threads. So start a few.
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What would tubalent mean, if it's not a word, and, of course, what is it if it is? It sounds rather brassy to me.You got it, my dear!  Not only was I thinking that a woodwind could not sound "tuba-lent", I have never seen a Wordwind create tubalence.
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Jackie, to get the drift of your musical riff, I had to try a double reed...
Woodwind, developing her embrochures on blowing the coconut tubalentioso
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