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of all the statistics that we ramble on about here, surely this has to be the most meaningless of them all.Oh, really?...then what about The Alias Deficit?  
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but a "purler" is an catastrophic happening
Ah, then Mr Commando of the Rhubarb variety, we have a different variation on that in 'strine. According to 'strine slang dictionary located at http://www.outbacktravelshop.com.au/tools/slang.htm#p :
Perler - used when something is really great, as in "Anyone who can write code in perl is an absolute perler." Ha ha...
Just another bewdiful example of the variations in our strange language!
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>>of all the statistics that we ramble on about here, surely this has to be the most meaningless of them all. >Oh, really?...then what about The Alias Deficit? you may have something, but. I don't recall it being specifically rambled about previously. http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
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> the statistics that we ramble on about here ... the most meaningless.
How about a statistic regarding the number of non-cynical posts made by tsuwm, ever? The last post might be a statistical contender.
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Purling is knitting backwards. Many sweaters involve "knit one, purl two."
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Ramble: [Probably from Middle Dutch *rammelen, to wander about in a state of
sexual desire, from rammen, to copulate with.]From AWAD, 4/25/2000. http:// http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0400, about three quarters of the way down the page. Shoot, I guess to read the whole thing, you'll have to Search AWAD--the link doesn't work.
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. I don't recall it being specifically rambled about previously.If three posts constitutes "rambling" it does... now!
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Purling is knitting backwardsI thought that was "gnittink"  Hey! That's almost a phonetic palindrome!
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