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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (60180)	9/27/2002 6:41:14 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 82486

I'll give it a shot: The artful expression of the street performer compelled me, within his charismatic spell, to float in the imaginative efflorescence of his prose.

To: epicure who wrote (60180)	9/27/2002 6:49:22 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

A lovely word. It contains much more than 'blossoming,' for example, does. Which reminds me. From Wordsmith, nice pangrams children might enjoy: pangram (PAN-gram, -gruhm, PANG-) noun A sentence that makes use of all the letters of the alphabet. [From Greek pan- (all) + -gram (something written).] Many typists know "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" as a thirty-three-letter sentence that employs every letter in the alphabet at least once. Now fix your eyes on a sampling of the best pangrams of even fewer letters. What you are about to see are meaningful sentences that avoid obscure words yet contain every letter of the alphabet: Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. (thirty-two letters) Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. (thirty-one) How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. (thirty) Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. (twenty-nine) Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud. (twenty-eight) And now, wordaholics, logolepts, lexicomanes, and verbivores -- the Peter Pangram of all pangrams -- Mr. Jock, TV quiz Ph.D., bags few lynx. (twenty-six!)