Disgusted, Etc.

[Richard Brekne]

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!
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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).
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>And there's the rub! (In the medicine cabinet. The blue jar on the top
>shelf.)
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>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.
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>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.
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>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!
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>The phrase "Lighten Up!" was invented for our time! (By Thomas Edison, I
>think.) 
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>Alan R. Barnard
>Salem, MO
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>*Buffalo Shaped Object. Is contest the opposite of protest? Why IS
>abbreviated such a long word?
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