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RE: Odd City names, 1932 (in Potpourri) by BobKberg and don't forget "Truth or Consequences, NM"!! I vaguely recall, as a teenager, when the host (Mont...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Origin of phrase. (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobKberg To quote Mark Twain (Sam Clemens) out of context: "Be careful reading health books; you may die of a...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: "celebutante" (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobKberg I don't care about Paris, but the term "celebutante" makes me wonder about a private term of mine. ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Hardware cloth (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobKberg Hardware cloth is very much still around. Kalleh - it comes in grades by fractional inches. For ex...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Corporate Bafflegab (in The Written Word) by BobKberg Hmmm BobHale - I'd almost (but not quite) pay money to see "spiral" or "in zig-zags, waves, dotted l...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by BobKberg Yeah, Yeah, "elidement"... I know.... Bob... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word RE: Son of Double Dactyls (in The Written Word) by BobKberg I don't know what has gotten into you all, but errors is two syllables in MY hall, Dare you constric...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word A brief study of letter frequency in English (in Questions & Answers about Words) by BobKberg Ok, American - but that's what I'm used to. This is a little project that I did based on a conversa...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Questions & Answers about Words RE: Wordsworth is turning in his grave (in The Written Word) by BobKberg Sort of interesting.... Reminds me of a project never completed - due to an onset of good sense - o...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word RE: Impostrophes (in Potpourri) by BobKberg Hmm - wasn't Catapostrophe the sister of the Parentheses twins? As I eschew proper Greek history, i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Children's Book Awards (in The Written Word) by BobKberg Darn! This is what happens when I get tied up in work. I miss all these threads! Anyway, Caterwau...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > The Written Word RE: Tom Swifties revisited (in Wordplay) by BobKberg Said Tom, with an adverb intensive, If you must keep this up, I'll get pensive, For adverbish (!) no...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay RE: Californicate (in Potpourri) by BobKberg To the best of my knowledge, the Oregon reference is correct. And the timing matches. Bob... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Fun Insults (in Potpourri) by BobKberg Lovely Wally! Reminds me of the quote (I forget who at the moment) "I talk to myself because I like...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: "Faces of War" (in Potpourri) by BobKberg I'm inclined to agree with Kalleh. Whoever writes headlines is usually desparate for some way to ma...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Signs that Mis-Describe the subject (in Potpourri) by BobKberg Minor point - I typed this in a fixed space font, but the actual web page shows up in a proportiona...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Signs that Mis-Describe the subject (in Potpourri) by BobKberg Hmm - no idea I'd started a thread... However, dim as my memory might be (10+ years ago), I believe...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Tom Swifties revisited (in Wordplay) by BobKberg Quoted from the book "Tom Swifties" "I'm afraid prunes aren't my dish", said Tom loosely "Tennis i...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Wordplay RE: Signs that Mis-Describe the subject (in Potpourri) by BobKberg Reminds me of the game of "telephone" where a message is passed through many players.... The end re...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri RE: Signs that Mis-Describe the subject (in Potpourri) by BobKberg At the risk of stating what seemed obvious to me... While the sign doesn't ...... Wordcraft Home Page > Wordcraft Community Home Page > Forums > Potpourri | » Refine Search » New Search |
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