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To: Rambi who wrote (446)	3/10/2005 11:02:17 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 777

We could certainly use a new word, perhaps more than one. Is there a form or something we need to submit?

To: Rambi who wrote (446)	3/10/2005 1:30:02 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 777

We can say "Freudefreude" That's very creative. Your left and right brains are really clicking. Must have been all those finger exercises.

To: Rambi who wrote (446)	3/10/2005 9:24:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 777

Radical or not here I come. I was just watching 'Lizzie McGuire' on TV and the parents were referred to as squares. I'm trying to think back to the first times I heard that as a reference to social things. It was some beatniks referring to establishment types. The thinking at the time was that the natural flow of things is to a spherical form, but as the establishment binds everything in rules we begin to see sharp corners and cubicle forms. Rocks eventually become round as do planets and such. But our houses have sharp corners and right angles all over them. So, beatniks formed an opposition to everything confining, thus referring to any restrictions and those who imposed them as square. Beatniks used the word cool for ideas that slid through the rules base and were out there in the finest sense of the term 'far out', which came along in the following generation of anti-establishment types. To be cool now, you must have the most in-style hair do and designer jeans. Yes, what cool used to mean was way out side the recognized norm; where as, now it means the most inside you can get. I am pretty sure 'far out' means you said or did something 'cool' or 'in' as well. If you are not cool you must be way out there and square???