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"To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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"Wit, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery
by leaving it out." A. B., The Devil's Dictionary
--Whit
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Wit, n. The salt with which etc. etc. I can't allow the implication that you are without wit, Whit. And quite apart from the fact that your writings are full of it. Just look at it this way: If it be allowed that you have none, then you become "hmanO'Neill"Your words are never ill-written, which makes you "hmanO'Ne"On this board you, in common with us all, are never alone but are a part of the whole, which makes you "hman"This process of reduction is enough to unman the best of us (amongst whom you surely rank); so you become "h"If this is taken to such an extreme, you will have to avoid any trip to London, where we habitually drop our 'aithches' 
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And quite apart from the fact that your writings are full of it.hehehe
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Aw, you just wiped me out!!  -- " ' " (that's all that's left of me!)
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"OBSOLETE, adj.
No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer. Indeed, a writer's attitude toward 'obsolete' words is as true a measure of his literary ability as anything except the character of his work. A dictionary of obsolete and obsolescent words would not only be singularly rich in strong and sweet parts of speech; it would add large possessions to the vocabulary of every competent writer who might not happen to be a competent reader."
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May the stars forbid!! I merely point out a potential to which we all are subject - I've just looked askance at my own name, and seen that the same fate is possible, if I am unwary!  BTW, I've just noticed that my posts run into four figures, now - rather like my corporeal figure
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Whit signs himself -- " ' " (that's all that's left of me!); to which AnnaStrophic replies. But should the reply have been a postrophic, rather than a nnastrophic? Are you completely positive? [ , in the spirit of the original post of this thread]
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Whit signs himself -- " ' " (that's all that's left of me!);
to which AnnaStrophic replies.
Huh?
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Whitman became apostrophic,"'", rather than annastrophic (and you annastrophic, replied..!) and least i think that is what he meant.. but i am not positive! or as brief as '!
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