Conference back40::soapbox

    supercalifragilisticexpeealidocious.

    supercalifragilisticexpIalidocious
    
    You're welcome....

    loquacious

    
    pentigate

    >supercalifragilisticexpIalidocious
    >
    >You're welcome....
    
    gees chels. i thought i got it pretty close. with my memory and speling
    abilities i thought it was cool.

    ::Rah = Pelagic

    mellifluous...

    verisimilitude

    circumlocution
    

    antidisestablishmentarianism

a

    aardvark

    cryptorchid

    frumping.

    argumentative!
    

    irascible

    bile

	Poinsetias (sp?)

    pedant

    you're
    
    
    (and don't forget it)
    
    

>    you're

am not.

    
    noone

    
    doncha mean peter???
    
    

	some say tomahhtoe
	some say tomaytoe
	some say you're
	some say your

cockalorum

    .27
    
    your personal adds new meaning to your nomination for word of the day.

    retromingent

| <<< Note 138.30 by SOLVIT::KRAWIECKI "grep this!" >>>
| -< zebra >-

farnarkle

Penultimate.

    Exaccerbate.

    You're only making it worse!
    
    -b

    You'll go blind if you do that anyway.

	RE .40		Come aqain  ??????????????????

	ya gotta wait a few minutes...

    .40
    
    where is she??????

        Figured you'd pick up on it, Dick :^) Joanne has a pic ...
        
        &y
        

	{light bulb blinks on}	

	*Now* I get it!

	joanne

    Females are not, by the way, the only ones in the exotic dance biz...

    
    You can say that again, ooh-er, fnarr fnarr, etc.

    Couldn't resist this one. It's the word with the most consonants in a
    row I know. And of course it German ;-)
    
    	Geschichtsschreiber
    
    Felix

    "writer of historical novels" or "novelist"...
    
    And as to pronunciation:  when you do it right, folks around you say
    
    !GESUNDHEIT!
    
    |-{:-)
    

    pulchritudinous
    

	kerfuffle

    
      kerfuffle...
    
        I wuf dose 

    Dang, I just spotted "kerfuffle" and I rush over here and TWO of yez
    who are not so dang behind in 'BoxLand have glommed it already!  TWO!
    
    No justice, iz wot I say.
    
    |-{:-)
    

    
       Uh, Uh,  doz dat mean we'z needing anoder box twial?????

	deng xiaoping

	(as in "i hate having to do all this deng xiaoping for christmas.")

    I wish I had said that.

    
    You still can, but you won't get as much of a laugh.

    Mz Debra, you're like a big jam doughnut with cream on top.

    
    well, i don't get it...
    
    

    hmmm that sorta goes along with your PN, Raq!
    
    

    
    I bring pleasure with my coming and anticipation of more with my leaving.
    
    

    Oooooooooooooooooo HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oooooo HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!


    Very witty Mz Debra, very very witty.
    
    
    there's only one thing worse in the world than being witty and that's
    not being witty.
    
    Glenn

                                     MotYim

    .66
    
    I wish I'd said that.

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    PP    PP     II        EE         CC         EE
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       	    PP    PP    EE         EE                  ZZ
            PP     PP   EE         EE                 ZZ
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... porridge hot.

    	    PPPPPPP     EEEEEEEE   EEEEEEEEE   ZZZZZZZZZZZ
       	    PP    PP    EE         EE                  ZZ
            PP     PP   EE         EE                 ZZ
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 Ouch..

    
    porridge cold.

    	    PPPPPPP     EEEEEEEE   EEEEEEEEE   ZZZZZZZZZZZ
       	    PP    PP    EE         EE                  ZZ
            PP     PP   EE         EE                 ZZ
            PP     PP   EE         EE                ZZ 
            PPPPPPPP    EEEEEEE    EEEEEEEE         ZZ
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            PP          EE         EE             ZZ 
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    porridge in the pot, nine days old.

 bozos

    
    
    HEY!!!!  GLENN!!!!...who said you could copy my note over and over
    again without specific written consent??!?!?  HUH??? answer me!!! 
    well, let me tell you...*I* didn't!!!  how dare you...why i oughta come
    up there and just {smaq} you silly...
    
    oh, wait, you're already there...
    
    
    

    
    behooves
    

    > behooves
    
    add a little bespangles, and you might berudolf.

    	    PPPPPPP     EEEEEEEE   ZZZZZZZZZZZ
       	    PP    PP    EE                 ZZ
            PP     PP   EE                ZZ
            PP     PP   EE               ZZ 
            PPPPPPPP    EEEEEEE         ZZ
            PPPPPPP     EEEEEEE        ZZ
            PP          EE            ZZ 
            PP          EE           ZZ
            PP          EE          ZZ
            PP          EEEEEEEE   ZZZZZZZZZZZ
    
    

    use it often

    just do it.

  re .85


   Just say no

                                     atwixt

    Touche' - use it early and often.  

    I smiled at that !! :^)

    
    
    THanks Dr Dano.....as you can see, my spelling is as good as it ever
    wasn't.....
    
    
    
    Mike

	hysteresis

    hysteresis
    
    Too tinny. Not woody enough. Gone. Now that's woody!
    
    -b

		Perplexed..............

    
    
    defenestration
    
    

	<------ What might that mean ????	

    
    Gettin' tossed through a window!
    

 it's an idea that comes into one's head upon seeing the notes
 you start up.

 Its what you do to people who refuse to spell correctly.

	I like that word already..........My kind of word.

	RE .102

	Watch it or I'll unleash those LISP routines.....%^)

    it's an act of defenestering which is the oppostie of fenestering as in
    fenesteration.
    
    

| <<< Note 138.105 by GMT1::TEEKEMA "A mere mortal........" >>>



| Watch it or I'll unleash those LISP routines.....%^)


	Hey, I know them!

Pulchritude


chuckle

    scurrilous
    
    
    vapid
    
    
    craven
    
    
    poltroon

re: -.1 -- You better take that back. I don't believe that ANY former
Arkansas governor knows words like that. They're limited to "Ya'll" and
"grits" and "Git thet long-harred pinko Yankee outta hyar" and "Yas'm,
miz Hillary, yas'm."

Art 

K1EYE FN42

    BULLSEYE.

    DISGRONIFICATION
    
    
    

    
    
    inveigle
    
    

    Of the DAY?  Nope, thissun's the word of the WEEK, of the MONTH...
    
    And a right Jolly Rogering ittiz!!
    
    /s/Dan, with a tip of the beanie to "Moist, the Jolly Rogering" or
            whatever that great P_N wuz...
    
    \-{:-)
    

    Thanks to Newt and Connie Chung.

ignominious rogering?

Hypermnesia

    We're supposed to have freezing drivel today......
    

    This troubles me.

    another clousy day, breezing snivel and the occasional snow flurky...
    
    

    
    methinks you have better check the positioning of your keys on your
    keyboard...
    
    

>>         -< Catenary >-

	i'd guess this has to do with the cat that swallowed the canary.
	or... some sort of curve.  ;>

	pamprin

    
    
    Fiorinol!!
    

    Fiorinol?  Oh Terrie, now we'll have *two* things in common
    once you cross the 30 line.
    
    joanne
    

    Joanne, Terri, do ya'll get lots of headaches?
    
    

    Two words:	Migraine City.
    

    
    
    And if there was a Twin Cities for migraines...I'd be there! :(
    
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    To hear Gene Haag tell the story, the Twin Cities were a bit
    of a migraine!
    
    -b

    Wot IZ the etymology of that, anyhoo?
    

    It started off as "goodies," but some scribe made a typo and it's lived
    on... :-)

    I'd have thought it crude/playful derivation of 'jewels' but dunno.
    
    DougO

>>-< fwoooar >-

	yes, that would have been my choice too.  ;>

    Is "fwoooar" that word that Robert DeNiro used in "Scent of
    a Woman"?
    

    Was DeNiro in SoaW? I remember Al Pacino, but not DeNiro.
    
    Scahface was on TV a couple nights ago, speaking of Pacino.
    
    -b

>    Is "fwoooar" that word that Robert DeNiro used in "Scent of
>    a Woman"?
    
"Whoooo Haaaa!" is what ya thinking about... and it was Pachino, not
DeNiro, in that movie...

/scott

    Aw jeez, that's right.  I can't ever keep those two
    straight... er, separated...  er, I have trouble distinguishing
    one from the other.  They confuse me.
    

    
    >I remember Al Pacino...
    
    Woah...here we go with the name-dropping again!  ;^)
    

    >Woah...here we go with the name-dropping again!  ;^)
    
    Yo, Raq! Can I smaq him? :-) :-)
    
    -b

    
    {{{cringe}}}
    

    
    <---...hey!!!!!
    
    
    (and just for that...yes, -b, you can...but be sure you do it right?!)
    

    
    {{{cower}}}
    

    mot du jour- FUBAR

	nipples

    
    hey...isn't fubar a recognizable obscenity??
    
    
    i recognize it...
    
    

    What... 'Fried Up Beyond All Recognition' naaaaaaa that's what
    my breakfast always looks like :^)          

    Podicicinnist
    

    Umm, if men act more like women and women act more like men, does this
    mean we'll all have an aversion to each other? :-)
    
    -b

I think, -b, we'll just have more aversion to
ourselves.

(There goes the masculine side of me again.
 I hate him.)

    
    
    Box word snarf.  :*)
    

    I love it when you tell some-one they are being "Facetious" and the
    look on their face tells you they can't make up their minds if they
    should thank you for a compliment or if they should get mad at you 
    for an insult.

Ode to Spam
by Charlie Johnston

Oh SPAM!  Oh SPAM!  Gourmet delight!
My food by day, my dreams by night.
To carve, to slice, to dice you up -
pureed in a blender and sipped from a cup.

What shining deity from Olympus knelt
down to the earth and hog butt smelt?
Creating then man's eternal desire
for swine entrails congealed by fire.

    
On some corporate farm, a pig has died.
Eyes, tongue, and snout end up inside
that cube of SPAM hidden in the can
I now hold in my trembling hand.

More than mere food, SPAM is for me
a hedonistic expression of gluttonous glee.
Mottled with pork fat, the pink cube engrosses.
My mouth takes it in, my intestine disposes.

    
Long have my arteries clogged to the sound
of sizzling SPAM when there's no one around -
furtively chewing or swallowing whole.
Triple bypass by forty, my medical goal.

Other processed meat products I've tried or declined
Vienna Sausages, Treet, even pig's feet in brine.
Though each may be tasty in different ways,
none matches SPAM for gelatinous glaze.

    
That glistening pinkness beckons me
with gristle, fat, and BHT.
Oh Spam, my Spam - the taste, the smell -
The sacred meat product from Hormel.

	http://sp1.berkeley.edu/findthespam.html"

    I'll pause only to twit you for the supernumerary " before thanking you
    profusely... That is not only hysterical, but directly relevant to some
    advanced development that I'm doing these days...  And no, it doesn't
    have anything to do with processed meat byproducts!
    
    Tnx again, O 'BoxFanatic... :-)
    

    -1
    
    Woof!

	faux pie or faux pas - take your pick

	I like apple pie much better....

    
    
    di, when i first read his note, i thought it said chicken faux pas,
    too...:>
    
    
    

    right, and then he used "faux pas" in a different note after that,
    so, well, they just had to go in here, i figured.  ;>
    
    

    Di:
    
    do u use garlic powder on your "faux pas" chicken?  :-))

    <--- You shouldn't have done that.

    
    "wicked"
    

    
    
    As in Pete's?  
    
    

    
    
    actually, i am sure he meant 'wiqed'
    
    
    :>
    

    disingeneous - be it early and often

    disingenUous.
    
    nnttm.

    I think he was being disingenius. ;-)

    Not only that, he wasn't being very smart either.

    re: .192
    
    I was going to correct him, but with my record of spelling  I thought
    it best to leave this one alone.  After all, maybe *I*'ve been spelling
    that word wrong lately.  8^)

    yeah, that too.  :-)

	quarantine
	quarrantine
	quarentine
	quarrentine
	quarruntine

	et al

    
    Kwarunteen
    

    Quarantaine
    

    Well, you got the "Man" right...               :-)
    

    Quarkantine

    Barkentine - What kind of ship regularly visits for Quarkantines @ DS9 

    
    Ovaltine

    Ruptured spleen.

    

    that's obscene.

    trampoline

    
    Billy Jean

    
    Fug
    Funk
    Fudge
    Farg
    Firetruck
    Frig
    

    
    
    <-- Farg
    
    
    That's my cat!

    do it often.

    
    Come friends who plow the sea
    truce to navigation
    take another station
    let's vary piracy
    with a little burglary!

    .216
    
    you can burgle if you like.  i prefer to furgle.  trust me on this, you
    really do prefer furgling, too.

Wasn't there a Furgle that was a neighbor of Ferd Burfle and Frannie Farkle?

    i don't think so.  the family was frank and fannie farkle, and mark and
    sparkle farkle, and all the others.  the neighbor was ferd burfle.

Dick, how many neurons are devoted to that information?

    Tnx, ::MARKEY 330.24
    

	inter-gender interaction

 re .223



 Didn't they used to call that "playing"?

    
    
    	ballistic coefficient

    
    
    	gidgets pherome

    
    	
    re: .231

    	pheromone doesn't parse through my spell checker. It only offers
    foreman and fireman as my other choices.....;*)
    
    thank you again luv....<smooch>
    
    jim 

    Ain't pheromones wot ardent teenagers have when trying to boink on the
    sofa while the 'rental units are asleep upstairs?
    
    Well it's a theory!
          

    Piles

    No Dan, that's Pher o' moms unless you are the boy boinker then it is
    Phero o' dad('s shotgun).  
    
    Brian

    
    poop-impaired
    

	lack of thoughtlessness

    Not according to DECspell Dear Mz. Deb... it corrected my
    original spelling, which was the same as yours...
    
    -b

    
    I wasn't correcting the spelling, Bri - I was posting it as word of the
    day, just as I did Pullet Bureau 8^).

    Chihuahua - the original chia pet

 yap yap

    
    mutaween
    

    Buck

lifeflighted

    
    HEY!!!  well, what should it have been???  lifeflown??? 
    
    

    
    
    	how about removed by air? ;*)
    
    
    

    Is that like being blown away?

    "Airlifted" is a reasonable facsimile.

    
    Doesn't it have a brand name, tho, that is something like LifeFlight?
    
    Kinda like kleenex and band-aids 8^)?
                                

    
    
    The 'brand name' is LifeFlight, so therefor, the people
    were in fact 'LifeFlighted'.
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
    
    Oh, what the heck.......
    
    
    
    SNARF!
    :*)
    

    re: .268
    
    Oh, good, I need some new passive verbs.  In particular, I'm
    going to tell my wife that I've been Hitachied.  Let her figure
    out that I've just been watching TV.  :-)
    
    I suppose it's better than being Digitalized, or even Digitized.
    
    Chris

    
    >I suppose it's better than being Digitalized,
    
    
    or dedigitalized...
    
    

    What would that be analogous to?

    Aren't we getting a bit off subject?

    Bone

| <<< Note 138.277 by SNOFS1::DAVISM "And monkeys might fly outa my butt!" >>>


| Bone


	Hey, that's my nickname. 

    No, it's Angel Drawers.

<------ that too! :-)

    The word for today is SNARF...I'm outta control.  8^)

    
    <-------
    
    Someone who keeps the cattle moving in a slaughter house???
    

  The spell'en biggots are at it again.

  Gosh, they must be right.

  George

    procurement

 Upsetness

    Jimbo, 
    
    You have been watching far too much TV. Now stop it.

    
    Get ready to hear this many times today...
    

    
    	<guffaw>
    
    

 in honor of meowski

    
    {ahem} persIflAge!

<------ what do you plan on doing with that????

    Nothing you could ever experience, of this I am certain. 

    I like dogs.

	and it's highly rumored that dogs mouths are cleaner than humans...

    It is a fact.

yeah, they are all over crap, garbage, dog butts, so it must be true

    >	and it's highly rumored that dogs mouths are cleaner than humans...

    Well, I've never heard a dog swear...

    -b

              <<< Note 138.318 by BIGQ::SILVA "Squirrels R Me" >>>

>	and it's highly rumored that dogs mouths are cleaner than humans...

	Old wive's tale. AKA untrue.

Jim

	Jim, did the YOUNG wives tell you that? :-)

    At just about any time there are more types of bacteria in the human
    mouth than a dog's mouth. The secret is in the saliva. 
    
    so patouiiiii!

>    At just about any time there are more types of bacteria in the human
>    mouth than a dog's mouth. The secret is in the saliva. 

See 79.563.

              <<< Note 138.323 by BIGQ::SILVA "Squirrels R Me" >>>

>	Jim, did the YOUNG wives tell you that? :-)

	No. Actually it was our vet. Conversation occurred whilst
	patching up our big Blue Dane after he tried to establish
	his status with our Brindle. Remington (the Blue) started 
	the fight Dude (the Brindle) finished it. Remmie goes to 
	his new home today. ;-(

Jim

RE      <<< Note 138.327 by POWDML::LAUER "Little Chamber of Fuzzy Faces" >>>

>                                  -< bazaar >-

  Passes the spell checker.

  George

>>  Passes the spell checker.

	...proving once again that being able to spell is an asset.

    > Passes the spell checker.
    
    Yes, well, lots of people pass gas, too, but that doesn't make it
    appropriate.

    
    {snort} BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH{gasp}HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
    
    {ahem}
    

    Clue impairment assistance please, I must have missed something...

    Did someone write "bazaar" when they meant "bizarre"? And, does this
    explain why we are now talking about passing gas in this topic?

    Sometimes, this conference is too damn hard to follow...

    -b

  Yes, I miss spelled a word and lacking any form of logical argument people
have taken to picking on my spelling.

  George

George, everybody and his mother point out the logic flaws in your notes.
We just like to make fun of your spelling too.

	aagagag.

   >Yes, I miss spelled a word and lacking any form of logical argument people
   >have taken to picking on my spelling.

    Oh, no wonder I missed it. Mr. Next Unseen wrote it.

    And the word is "misspelled". I think "Miss Spelled" was a
    character on Grammar Rock. But don't thank me for the free
    clue...

    -b

    >> Sometimes, this conference is too damn hard to follow...
    
    The next-unseen sequencing (however it works) can foil you at
    times if you pop in and out of here every couple of hours, so
    that you miss the "real-time" effect that you get if you stay
    connected for a longer period of time, I've found.
    
    For example, a while back I'd read "roger-fest" in here as a
    box word of the day, but the note containing the term hadn't
    yet appeared (to me), and didn't appear for several "minutes".
    I'm still considering whether it was funnier getting them
    in reverse sequence.
    
    Chris

    scintilla - use it sparingly, it's a small word.  

    Thwack.

    ....and with a capital "P", it is the name of a fine speaker
    manufacturer in Canada.

Or even mechanicide



Chele

    Navel engagement 

    
    <--- I really liked that one too!
    

    
    
    	for anyone who watched FRIENDS last night....
    

    Did I say that?

	Jack, do you truly believe the character on the show Friends, who was
married to a lesbian, who now has a monkey as a pet, is really you? YES or NO

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Yes

	Jack, please seek professional help as soon as possible. nnttm

    You're just pissed because you don't look like a sexy Hollywood person.
    
    Except Buckwheat!
    
    -Jack

	Jack, people keep telling me I look like a dark haired Brad Pitt. :-)

    
    
    	Brad Pitt does have dark hair....he cut it all off and 
    	dyed it brown...
    
    	please send me a picture.  ;)
    

<---- I wuz jokin JJ! Sorry bout that..... :)  

    
    epistles were written to them weren't there?

 yes, i think so.

 The epistles were written the Phillipians.






 Jim

    No.  The letter of Paul to the Philippeans.... 1 L!  
    
    Aaahhhaaaaaa Diane....You didn't know how to spell Philippeans!!!!
    
    Hey I'm desparate to redeem myself here!  :-)

    Ohh Darnit...
    
    DespErate....not desparate!!
    
    

    
    Jack... 
    
    Shut up...
    
     :)
    

    
>>    Aaahhhaaaaaa Diane....You didn't know how to spell Philippeans!!!!

	I entered the supposed word as you spelled it in 380.2.

    Yes I saw it you troublemaker!!! :-)

    
    
    	re: .361
    
    	ah, bummer.  =)
    

 <-- beat me to it, as usual ;>

    Bungee-Bondage

    
    
    hey deb, i think he is talking about you... ;> :>
    
    

    
    I'll try just about anything for a ride in a Miata 8^).

    
    Or, in this case, ON a Miata 8^))).

>    Or, in this case, ON a Miata 8^))).
        
        Told Sandy of yer wish, Eric - she says "anytime" :*)
        
        &y
        

    consertives

    urrrrgh

    environmental elves

    
    elves on shelves

    
    Having just scoured the post-thumping-holiday-excuse-box looking
    for anything resembling a good time, I have concluded that the
    box word of the day is most definitely YAWN!
    
    -b

    So he doesn't have a circle of friends then?

| <<< Note 138.398 by POLAR::RICHARDSON "Special Fan Club Baloney" >>>

| So he doesn't have a circle of friends then?

	No, he uses AT&T

                                   SNARF!!!

    He uses AT&T because I'M on the commercial!! :-0

| <<< Note 138.401 by MKOTS3::JMARTIN "You-Had-Forty-Years!!!" >>>

| He uses AT&T because I'M on the commercial!! :-0

	You're probably right Jack. This way he will have someone to sue for
false advertising when he finds out what they have been saying is false!

    Thud!!!

    Yes.... Blows the bollox off any bloke who bottles it !

As in "Digital Toady"?

Chris.

    Ratty.

    Wind;

    
    Well put, Mr. Topaz.
    

    Complicity

    antioxintestinal

    antidisestablishmentarianism

	Glenn, I had thought of the same word. I would never attempt to spell it
though as Deb would go into overload mode! :-)



Glen

    
    8^)

    It was the longest word in the English language at one time. Don't know
    if that's the case anymore.

    .422
    
    Not even close.  The current recordholder has 1,913 letters.  If you
    think I'm going to type it in here, you're out of your ever-lovin'.

    Wow. 

>    Not even close.  The current recordholder has 1,913 letters.  If you
>    think I'm going to type it in here, you're out of your ever-lovin'.

well post an abbreviation then!  (or the dictionary description...)

Chris.

    .425
    
    methionylglutaminylarginyl...  the chemical name for tryptophan
    synthetase A protein, a 1,913-letter enzyme with 267 amino acids.
    
    			- Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure,
    			  and Preposterous Words, pp 128-129; Josefa
    			  Heifetz Byrne, 1974; Citadel Press, Secaucus,
    			  NJ.

    Looks like some scientist had too much time on his hands.

    Do chemicals really count?

    Yes, especially on Saturday nights.  

I also wondered about the fairness of chemical names. I seem to recall
that one of the games played by the Organic Chem Nerds (back in kollidge
when I was taking Organic Chem, and before I became a computer nerd),
was something along the lines of "Synthesize _THIS_!" It was a drinking
game in which each successive challenger had to add another radical
to the overburdened benzene ring and justify the synthesis involved.
Hell, after the third or fourth pitcher, you couldn't pronounce them
anymore, they'd gotten so complex.

	It's nice to know that when we need an nswer, we have the person to
ask. Mr. Binder, you never cease to amaze me with your never ending knowledge. 


Glen

    .430
    
    Well, if you don't like chemical names, I'll fall back on the old
    reliable 185-letter lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypo-
    trimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphonophattoperister-
    alektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.  It
    means hash.

    lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypo-
    trimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphonophattoperister-
    alektryonoptekAphalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.  
                  ^
                  |

    
    I thought that was `tetrahydracannibanol'?
    
    ...I mean...y'know...I just overheard that from someone...on the subway
    I think...
    

    .433
    
    Who's going to be the first to dispute Joe's correction?  The earliest
    timestamp wins.

    
    	I ran it through DECSPELL and Joe's right.
    

    DECspell didn't know it, either, huh?

    .433
    
    Your paperback edition?  Which printing is yours?  My copy is also a
    paperback, ninth printing.

You're a bunch of nutters.

Chris.

    
    <--- that word is frequently used by the Richardsons... :-)
    
    -b

re:                                 -< themself >-

Well, somehow it just seemed to be more efficient than "him/herself" . . . 

    <--- Having trouble with your mouse again Debra?

    Babe!

    Yup, that's what I ate !

    Ji-Jams or Jam-Jams or even Pyjamas! I like those words !! Yes I do !

    
    As in "Your weaselage may vary?" :-)
    

    I stayed at the Weaselage last year!  Great view!

    
    ...damn, beat me to it!
    

    <--- Stop cracking jokes.

    
    
    You all need your attitudes adjusted.

    
    Calibrated attitudes - r - us
    
    
    

    we're bad to the bone.

    Do crooked chiropracters deserve to be released?
    
    DougO

| <<< Note 138.470 by CALLME::MR_TOPAZ >>>

| or simply set straight?



	not me.....

    8 out of 12 jurors deciding the case wanted smoked salmon hoagies for
    lunch.  "What was that order again?"  sub, lox, eight.
    
    DougO

Glen, you're a chiropractor's nightmare.  You're not well-adjusted, and you
can't be made straight.

	Gerald, I need a new terminal now. No, I did not spit or spill anything
on it. The thing exploded on it's own from reading that reply! Tooooo funny!

    
    electrohydrodynamic
    

    
    Nissin
    holly hell 
    craggey 
    hundered
    neet
    attachements
    shinney
    constalation

    
    mail goat
    

 haven't seen dick use that for a while

    
    My sister used to say that in junior high.  Drove me effing nuts 8^).

    If it's any consolation, I have in fact, never said the
    words referenced in .481. At least that I can recall. Nor,
    are such utterances in my foreseeable future.

    -b

 .483  I see you changed your reply to allow for the possibility
       that you _have_ uttered those words before.

       aaagagagagag. ;>  too much.

    
    Oh, I thought he changed it in order to misuse commas in as many ways as
    possible 8^).

    No, the change I made was to fix an obvious grammar error.
    I realize there are others, but maintain that I have not,
    nor will I, say... those words...

    But on another note... I must have done something _really_
    heinous to find myself so high on your $#!+-list of late.
    I wish I knew what that was... something that worthwhile
    should not be forgotten.

    -b

    
    Egad !  Mr T was once a teenager ?
    
      bb

| <<< Note 138.488 by GAAS::BRAUCHER >>>

| Egad !  Mr T was once a teenager ?

	Yeah, he only wore fake gold chokers then....

 $40, at least. ;>

    Darn...he beat me to it!!!

The

boxword is...

SNARF!

    the box phrase of the day is "hot bed" (two words).
    
    

    
    He had it almost right...
    

    
    Is that anything like a ba-a-a-a-a-ad excuse?
    

    
    	RE: .505
    
    	Mary was a little lame,
    	her sister not much better.
    
    
    	[Can anyone finish this?  Writer's block!!  8^)]
    

    
    Mary had a little lamb
    The doctor was surprised
    When Old MacDonald had a farm
    The doctor nearly died!!!!!
    
    POL.

    mary had a little lamb
    it's fleece was black as charcoal
    and everytime it jumped a fence 
    you could see it's little .......errr umm 
    

    >nonsensical dribble 
    
     Sounds like a key play in yesterday's b-ball game. :-)

I believe the 'box word of the day should be: doggerel. Not because it has 
been used today - that I'm aware of - but because today, from recent 
entries into this string, our beloved Jack Martin has the opportunity to
learn the real meaning of this word which he loves so dearly and
misunderstands so completely (much like the relationships between men and
women, I suppose). 

So, Jack:

Mary had a little lamb
which bleated words so droll,
causing some to find great meaning
in lowly doggerel

    You Ghett!!!!

    Yeah, so it's a phrase.  Sue me.

    
    We *could* change the title to "Word or Phrase of the Day".
    
    :^)
    

    .517
    
    No, actually I was wondering what tract it came from.

    Made it up myself.  See, I'm witty!
    
    -Jack

| <<< Note 138.519 by MKOTS3::JMARTIN "You-Had-Forty-Years!!!" >>>

| Made it up myself.  See, I'm witty!

	Lucky is more like it. Been hangin around Jack D!!??

    
    
    Shouldn't that be pane-steaking??????

    Only on rare occasions.

    
    
    and only with 4" stiletto heels....
    

    re .524
    
    well done
    a^)

    Glad you took a cut at it.
    
    8^)

    
    	Here an ore
    	there an ore
    	everywhere an ore ore.
    

    
    
    So sue me.....

    mike, i'd rather use ligatures than litigation with you....

    
    
    RE: Tine,
    
    
    So when are you getting down this way????????????
    
    
    

    
    	No, it's "When is she going down that way?".
    
    

    No, it's "When will she be in that vicinity?"

>  <<< Note 138.539 by NOTIME::SACKS "Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085" >>>
>                            -< Kennedy assination >-
>
    
    whoops !  
    Freudian slip.  
    I guess my Massachusetts backround slipped through !
    
    Dan

    Is that like having back breasts?

    <----- thanks Jack, t'was my aim :-)

    I did, didn't I !! {ahem} oooops !

    moon math - don't forget to carry the one

    
    	Things are easier to carry in moon math, too, since they are
    	lighter.
    

    yoeman - been used twice in two days

	yeoman service, even

    .551
    
    yeoman.
    
    nnttm.

        "Yo! Man!"
        

    Mr. Binder, I must thank you.  I would be remiss if I did not.  It is
    your everpresent pedantry that fulfills my box existence.  It is a
    blessing to live in your cyber shadow.  My life would be even more
    hollow and meaningless without knowing that my typos and slips of the
    fingers would be corrected forthwith.  Consider yourself duly thanked, 
    profusely even.   
    
    Brian

	mz deb, do you feel left out?  i know i do.

    Re: .556
    
    >might well fall only on the poor overburned shoulders
    
    Perhaps if he spent less time out in the sun, he could properly attend
    to his 'box duties....

Gimme a brake!  I been out fer a cuppla daze. Ize back now.

    And what a wonderful thing that is too.  

    
    This pedant feels a bit neglected 8^).

    Tut, tut Mz_Deb and Lady Di, your expert pedantry is second to none 
    and rivalved by few.   
    
    

    
    rivaled. nnttm

   that's twice i've been tut tut'd in the past coupla weeks.
   what gives?  i didn't know i'd been rivalved though.  didn't
   feel a thing.

    
    This pedant feels a little neglected.
    
    Well deb, I'll be on the 6:40 to logan. :-)

    Maybe I meant revalved?  Anyway, you, Battis will not be thanked as you
    are just as miserable a typer as I.  
    
    

    
    Brian, I am far worse a typer than you, I rarely get to correct
    anyones spelling, so I jump at the chance, as it were. If it wasn't
    for the pedant's of the box, I wouldn't get my proper spelling lessons.

	<restraining self>

    go ahead, do it.  I dare ya' :-)

    
    >>for the pedant's of the box, I wouldn't get my proper spelling lessons.
    
    No no Di, the apostrophe is correct cuz it's plural 8^))))))))))))))).
    

    Mark, we are outgnued.  Pest to give up. 

    
    >Brian, I am far worse a typer than you, I rarely get to correct
    >anyones spelling, so I jump at the chance, as it were. If it wasn't
    >for the pedant's of the box, I wouldn't get my proper spelling lessons.
    
    	There are more errors in this reply than Brian's made all year.
    
    	Fiscal year, that is.
    

    .555
    
    My dear Mr McBride, I am indeed pleased that I can be of such
    inestimable service to you.  I fear me that were I not here, the onus
    of boxpedantry might well fall only on the poor overburned shoulders of
    Mr Sacks or on the equally overburdened and no longer ignored shoulders
    of one of our other resident self-elected pegagogues, the catalogue of
    whom I shall forbear to enter lest I omit a touchy one.

>      <<< Note 138.556 by SMURF::BINDER "Father, Son, and Holy Spigot" >>>
>>    of one of our other resident self-elected pegagogues, the catalogue of
>>    whom I shall forbear to enter lest I omit a touchy one.

	oh, and now i'm a "pegagogue"!  a rivalved one to boot!  
	well, i like that...

      i would never deny being a pedagogue, but i ain't no "pegagogue"!
      geez louise, richard, get with it.

    Sounds like the name of a lake in New York state somewhere.

    
    I kinda like the sound of Mooselookmeguntic Lake, but that's in Maine, 
    not New York.
    
    
    Did you know there are lakes in Maine called the Richardson Lakes? 
    No really.

    grape

    Pedagogue or whatever.  
    
    Peda, of the feet + gogue, collection of definitions = Walking
    dictionary.
    
    

from rec.humor.funny:

Once again it is time for our annual school budget to be up for voting approval.
The signs are everywhere.  Vote Yes or Vote No!  But one sign that I drove by
yesterday seemed to tell the story:

        -Vote No for School Budget
                $38,000,000 is TO much for education!!!

Obviously, not enough if you ask me.

    .577
    
    Oopsie.  Long day yestiddy, even when yo complained I didn't see the
    problem...

      .586   what's with this "long day" bollocks?  get it right - you
	     had a cold.

    
    <--- fast...but not fast enough!   :^)
    

	actually, that was pretty slow.  ;>

    .587
    
    When are you going to come nurse me through said cold?

    Could somebody please tell me how breast feeding is going to help Dicks
    cold??
    
    Thank you!

    
    	Well, I've been known to forget about amputated appendages during
    	breast feeding.
    

    >Could somebody please tell me how breast feeding is going to help Dicks
    >cold??
    
    Couldn't hurt.   :)
    
    ...Tom

    Thanks...just wondering!

    Isn't that what got Mike Tyson in trouble?

    Any relation to Casey Casem?

    
    a very cheap setup Steve, better luck next time. :-)

    You don't like my words for the day?  I thought Friday was fitting,
    even if no one has used it yet (that I know of).  It was only after I
    posted my word for the day that I saw that the very next note was .600,
    and well, I couldn't just let it sit there.  Yeah, that's it.  8^)

    Go figure, and for Mz_Deb, anywhere.

    bleeve - used twice today.