'Frined' definition: was Re: Leaving

[Brian Lawson]

Hmmm.... have now used below definifions in sentences of my own and have
conceptual understanding of the word, and now retract earlier statement.
Brian

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> From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco@luther.edu>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: 'Frined' definition: was Re: Leaving 
> Date: 15 May 1999 02:09
> 
> Brian,
> 
> At 18:16 5/14/99 +0200, you wrote of Newton:
> 
> >Well I guess I haven't known you long enough to be a friend but a
"frined"
> sounds cool.
> 
> Well maybe, maybe knot. You have to consider the source.
> 
> The etymology of that word "frined" is, like it's most recent user, old,
> fraught with confusion and open to heated conjecture.
> 
> Frined:
> 
> 1.)FRIND' - n/v a/to Brake  - Corruption of frein (Fr), or freno (It,Sp)
brake.
>   Newton may have meant this since we all are stopped at home, while he
is
> terrorizing everyone on Interstate 80 between New Jersey and Nebraska, in
a
> vehicle with _no_ brakes. (even if he's flying)
> 
> 2.) FRIN' ed - past tense of frin: to frown [archaic, rare]
>   Here again, Newton is reminding us that he is on a fun trip to see
> relatives, while we are at home having fun restringing and setting S&S
> sostenudo tabs.
> 
> 3.) FRIND' - past victim [exceedingly rare] past tense of frond; a type
of
> leaf - In Newton's use, it describes the hapless victims of one of his
> scams. Other people would say they "palmed" the money.
> 
> 4.) FRIND' - strange [possible] From Ger. _fremd_; strange, foreign,
> unknown. Yet another commentary on list members.
> 
> 5.) frin ED' - frenetic [truncated]. Here again Newton is reminding us
that
> WE are working and not him. 
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> Source: Hofsommer's Dull Delapidated Decidedly Different Didactic
Deniably
> Deviant Dictionery
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> 
> >> I give you permission to have fun with my name in my absence.
> 
> Who me?
> 
> 
> Conrad Hoffsommer     mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu
> 
> Tell the truth: there's less to remember.
>