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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: random thoughts... #56741 02/13/02 11:25 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 perfect, tsuwm. and PS, I too used to hate the emoticons, but got bored with continuous misunderstandings of 'tone', so... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: random thoughts... #56742 02/14/02 12:32 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales old hand stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia > ...continue to read these posts objectively.....not seditiously On behalf of the great tsuwm and in the tradition of his "YART", could I propose another acronym cum maxim - RPONS.... Read Posts Objectively Not Seditiously stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: random thoughts... #56743 02/14/02 12:51 AM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US S slithy toves enthusiast slithy toves enthusiast S Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US brillig--that's my beat! I'm OK as long as we can still discuss words. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: random thoughts... #56744 02/14/02 01:20 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Read Posts Objectively Not Seditiously Well done, stales! But that will be easy, because we could not possibly read "seditiously". "Sedition" means "inciting rebellion against the authority of a state" -- and none among us would speak with such authority, of course. Perhaps, if tsuwm happened to mean "sedulously", stales' acronym would be preserved. http://www.bartleby.com/61/24/S0212400.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: random thoughts... #56745 02/14/02 02:44 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 B Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran B Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 I'm in. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: random thoughts... #56746 02/14/02 03:04 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass as I pointed out to someone who shall not be named (wsnbn) via PM, I used seditious in a broad figurative sense of 'given to causing tumult'; to wit: 1. Of a person or body of persons: Given to or guilty of sedition; in early use, ‘factious with tumult, turbulent’ (Johnson); now chiefly, engaged in promoting disaffection or inciting to revolt against constituted authority. 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden, Thirdly, he is verie seditious and mutinous in conversation, picking quarrells with everie man that will not magnifie and applaud him. I stand by this after much soul-searching. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter . #56747 02/14/02 03:10 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: random luck #56748 02/14/02 03:51 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Boy, you guys are good! Understanding each other, with a meaning so unusual that it isn't in bartleby or webster! I am impressed! Good to have it specified so that everyone else understands too. As Max's home page says, "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: random luck #56749 02/14/02 04:02 AM Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 A Angel addict Angel addict A Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 688 Good to have it specified so that everyone else understands too. I'm glad they cleared it up. Frankly I hadn't a clue using my trusty, never dusty, Webster's or the on-line Bartleby's that I have come to love. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter . #56750 02/14/02 06:36 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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