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Discussion Topic  RE: The eponym song (in Potpourri) by Geoff
After listening to the news today probably the most famous eponymous person nowadays popped into my ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The eponym song (in Potpourri) by Geoff
Actually, arnie's actual family name has been immortalized: ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Belt and braces (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
She spat on you when she was spitting mad? WRT airplanes, in the USA "wheel pants" is the common te......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Belt and braces (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
I doubt spats would be much good at holding one's trousers up. The term, I believe, is still alive ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Belt and braces (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
I understand the UK usage, but how many on either side of the pond would recognize galluses? Should......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Archie Bunker might have said this (in Potpourri) by Geoff
This Fry and Laurie sketch isn't all that old:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noSOFIJdfwM...
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Discussion Topic  RE: The curse of cursive (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
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Discussion Topic  Archie Bunker might have said this (in Potpourri) by Geoff
In a discussion of the types of material used in model airplane engine construction, a poster wrote ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Life-limited (in Potpourri) by Geoff
That's a new one to me also. Sounds like biological planned obsolescence. I guess it beats calling......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The curse of cursive (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
I suppose one could substitute ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The curse of cursive (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
Yeah, sure, and tautology is the study of tightness. ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The curse of cursive (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
Courrier's also related, as is current. "Crow" is not related, but I'm eating it for thinking cursi......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The curse of cursive (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
I still have a conventional slide rule, an E6B from WWII which is made of aluminum, and a later plas......
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Discussion Topic  RE: man up (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
Sounds like a book about Viagra use among male nurses....
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Discussion Topic  RE: The curse of cursive (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
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Discussion Topic  RE: Collector words (in Potpourri) by Geoff
oroanalist: someone with a potty mouth. minimalist: one who does the least harm. Sisyphist: Rol......
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Discussion Topic  RE: More jargon... (in The Written Word) by Geoff
I had not heard it, but it's clearly borrowing from the Cold War premise of Mutually Assured Destruc......
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Discussion Topic  RE: The curse of cursive (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
Then it's a case of terms cycling in and out of favor. Related to the computer term, ......
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Discussion Topic  The curse of cursive (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
When did joined-up, or handwriting come to be called cursive writing? As a child I never heard the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Ghost words (in Questions & Answers about Words) by Geoff
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