Alan wrote: >Hmmm .... To be dis-gusted suggests that ones gusts have been removed, >just as one cannot regurgitate a meal unless it has previously been >gurgitated. Can't fight that sort of logic, now, can you! > > > Actually... that would be <<de-gusted>>... probably a mispelling of a word refering to a sudden lack of courage, or a strange way of expressing relief after letting wind.... I am not sure which. The rest of this post doesnt really lend itself well to clearing up the matter:) Cheers RicB >On a more serious note (I think C# is a darned serious note, myself) you >have circled and landed on the truth like a rapacious buzzard on a week >old *BSO. But if the analogy holds ("Holds what?" you may ask, but >please don't) then truth, itself, has become like that poor fetid fellow >and is also dead--or at least in mortal jeopardy (which is one level >more serious than Double Jeopardy and if you lose this contest you don't >even get a fabulous home version of the game). > >And there's the rub! (In the medicine cabinet. The blue jar on the top >shelf.) > >If it is a crime (dare I say "sin") to give offense--and it is if and >only if it is intentionally done--then it is ten times, nay 100 times >worse to go around taking offense--especially when none is intended. > >It seems that people theseadays are so intent on being offended that >much of the fun has gone out of our lives. Which I think is what you >said but I'm not sure because I only read it with one eye. > >Anyway, I had a fine mare once who neighed 100 times and the cost was >frightful: she reverted to her state as a young filly, becoming, as it >were, a little hoarse. It was exhausting. And--believe me--you don't >want to be around when a horse sheds its haust! > >The phrase "Lighten Up!" was invented for our time! (By Thomas Edison, I >think.) > >Alan R. Barnard >Salem, MO > >*Buffalo Shaped Object. Is contest the opposite of protest? Why IS >abbreviated such a long word? > > >
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