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| Reply To: | "Let us not speak foul in folly!" - ][<en Phollit |
| Date: | Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:30:20 -0600 |
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Oh Ralph! You are just being too damned sensitive again.
-jc
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Ralph Walter wrote:
> In a message dated 3/8/2003 12:43:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> I have come to believe there is something elegant Elegant? It just
> saves being bitched at. in relowering relowering? I don't remember
> seeing that word in The Times. Could you cite a prior usage? the seat
> to "the commode" I believe a commode is a piece of furniture, unlike a
> "hutch," which I was mortified to learn in (and amidst) Furniture
> Class at Columbia, is where rabbits live. The piece of furniture in
> the dining room, sometimes called a "hutch" by only the extremely
> lower classes, is a sideboard. The plumbing fixture to which the
> gentleman refers is correctly known as a water closet, and is located
> in a toilet, or toilet room. tas I have come to call it. I mean, your
> pants work just the same with the zipper down, don't they? Under
> some circumstances they work better with your zipper down; and under
> others, it is preferable to have the zipper in the "up" position.
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> Your Humor and Accuracy Czar
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