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To: PatiBob who wrote (42755)	7/17/2002 11:30:13 AM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

I want to be Martha Stewart when I grow up. Problem is..........I don't think I will ever grow up.

To: PatiBob who wrote (42755)	7/17/2002 11:31:01 AM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Word of the Day for Wednesday July 17, 2002: bumptious \BUMP-shuhs\, adjective: Crudely, presumptuously, or loudly self-assertive. The clown in the girl is bumptious as can be: bouncing about in the peaked cap and oversized coat of a boy she hasn't learned to love yet, pacing in lockstep behind a fellow-lodger for the sheer love of badgering him, blowing out her cheeks like a fussed walrus when crossed. --Walter Kerr, "'Anne Frank' Shouldn't Be Anne's Play," [1]New York Times, January 7, 1979 Still a tremendous singer and a man so confident of his own sex appeal that he could make the most outrageously bumptious behaviour seem not only engaging but also entirely natural. --David Sinclair, "Larger than life and twice as rocky," [2]Times (London), March 13, 2000 Wells did not meet his father until he was an adult, by which time he had developed his own blunt, sometimes bumptious personality. --George Vecsey, "An Outsider Who Became an Insider," [3]New York Times, October 7, 1998 _________________________________________________________ Bumptious is perhaps a blend of bump and presumptuous.