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To: stockman_scott who wrote (21866)	1/25/2003 3:51:57 AM
From: HG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104167

hi GettingTired, thanx I didn't respond to the two 'real' posts about Saddam and Bush... -GettingTired2. Edit: For me, the word Saddam has gotten associated with JLA! It makes me giggle....<g>

To: stockman_scott who wrote (21866)	1/25/2003 8:24:03 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 104167

HG is really good at the word games...Clappy probably would be too...;-) Actually I'm not good at all. I have a horrible vocabulary. I use the same recycled words over an over again. The amount of four dollar words that I retain could not even buy me a thesaurus. I'm a painter of primary colors. Actually, I use crayons. And my grammar is horrible mostly. And I use my made up word "sorta" way too much. And it's possible that I use the word "possibly" in 1 out of 2 posts. And that goes for the word "really", too. When I don't know how to colorfully explain something I use "really". Here's another lame trick I picked up the other day. If you want to describe something without describing it but sorta describing it, you add the phrase "like they write about in those romance novels." For instance... If I want to describe how perfect of a kiss my wife gave me, I'd write something like, "Halfway through our heated argument my wife backed me up against the wall and kissed me like they write about in those romance novels." Or the bronze colored dude in the Speedo looked like someone they write about in those romance novels. Basically I suck at word games. In fact I have to look up words over and over again. You want to know what word annoys me? Namaste. You wanna know why? Because people use it a lot. Every so often I try to look it up at Dictionary.com. When do I get this as an answer: No entry found for namaste. 24 suggestions found: nanny-goat neem seed nonaged nonastringent non-Catholic noncitizen nonextant nonextensile nonjudgmental nonketoacidosis prone nonnegative nonskid nonstandard non-standard speech nonstarter nonsteroidal nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug nonstick nonstop nonstop flight nonstructural nonsweet Nunc dimittis So I figure I either left out an accent mark or mispelled it so badly that their engine could not find anything close. Or possibly (see I told you I use the word possibly too much) it's some sort of foreign word so it is not in there. But if that's the case how come the last word in their list of suggestions is "Nunc dimittis". What the fug is that?! Nunc dimittis?! I know for sure that that word did not originate from any english speaking dude. That word is as Latin and Tito Puente. It's frustrating being a writer with a vocabulary that fits inside a shoe box. People like HG and Lurqer know the good words. They are the best at these word games. I enjoy watching what they write. Anyhow ( <==== another favorite word of mine), I have to run. I gotta go look up that word narsasist (however you spell it) because I hear that one at least once a week and never know exactly what it means. -ClappyTheSoreAss P.S. Does Namaste mean something like Peace or best wishes or something? I forget. I shoulda never smoked all that pot in college. Can't remember a frickin thing.