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Or, for the more prolix ones like tsuwm,
throwing their wild oeds...
Just kidding, tsuwm. Jest in case you were miffed.
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Anything to do with short hair
a la Demi Moore in "G.I.Jane", TEd?
If that is your taste, you may get a buzz out of Demi's buzz cut at the link below. (I'm manely an admirer of long haired ladies ... in short threads. To each his own tresses.)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9990/gijane.html
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I saw somewhere recently that tresses meant braided hair, at least originally. I do not turn up my nose at hair that is short and curly, though it is only a memory now.
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I do not turn up my nose at hair that is short and curly
There is a word that describes a turned up nose, wwh. Not in the metaphorical sense but the actual shape. I think it is French. And, at the risk of stringing out this discussion, do you happen to know why people who disdain something are said to be "turning up their nose" at it?
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Word Weaver, love your spindle. You can weave a word with a tailor's touch. Getting back to those missing Alphatists: Do you suppose they are out knitting up their ravelled sleeves of care? (Nobody can trump Shakespeare.)
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I have seen noses retroussé, and I have seen people indicate their consummate satisfaction with their endowment and social status by aiming their snoots at the zenith. But distaste is commonly signaled by a moderate presentation of the nares. The vulgar may needlessly vocalize "Phooey". The aesthetes may indicate their detection of delicately communicative pheromones by an appreciative inhalation.
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The aesthetes may indicate their detection of delicately communicative pheromones by an appreciative inhalation
Little did I know! Amongst all your other refinements, you are also a connoseur. (Have you ever heard a phero moan? Or is that "just a memory" too?)
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Duhh - I thought that the short thread society was the underwear tailor's guild.
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I thought that the short thread society was the underwear tailor's guild.You've come to the right place, Geoff. We specialize in designer briefs.  We also thread where wise men seldom go.
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I have seen noses retroussé
Trust the French to pay homage to the architecture of a nose, wwh. We english, on the other hand, have "aquiline" noses, "Roman" noses, "button" noses, "pug" noses, and the hastily cobbled together "turned-up nose", and everywhere we turn our snozzer we encounter "nosey" people with their noses in everyone else's business and "brown nosers" with their heads buried up other people's rear ends. When we drink too much, we get a "snootful". If we think too much of ourselves, we are "snooty" or, worse, "snotty". Indeed, is there any other orifice of the human anatomy more systematically maligned in the english language than the nose on your face? The French, on the other hand, know better. I have read that the French think so much of their noses that the coveted prodigies who concoct their finest perfumes in spy-proof laboratories are called, simply, "Noses". When it comes to noses, wwh, we english haven't got a whiff of sense.
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