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    Lollipop: 1) a confectionery treat on a stick often in the form of a large colourful wheel 2) wikipedia - "The Lollipop Guild was a group of Munchkins in the Munchkin Country, who welcomed Dorothy Gale to Oz with song and dance (while holding their lollipops) upon her arrival"

    Guild:
    tailor

    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Guild: An association consisting of creatures that can breathe underwater.

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    Ulcer: a British name for Northern Ireland.

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    Tornado: As famous for the words "Rich, Corinthian leather" as for playing Mr. Rourke on Fantasy Island, Tornado Montalban was an effete if lovable poser, who made a career out of a series of affectations. He later croaked.

    Khan Noonien Singh:
    Obsessed with facial symmetry.

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    Khan Noonien Singh: An failed attempt to comunicate in Korean.

    Parachute:
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Parachute: To fire a gun twice

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    Wastebasket: slang verb used to describe parachuting, i.e., "I'm gonna wastebasket this muthaf**ka!" Term may derive from basket used to catch severed heads during the Reign of Terror.

    Onion bagel with creamed cheese:
    Obsessed with facial symmetry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar View Post

    Pendragon, was that 'disingenuous' remark aimed at me?

    Dirk Gently:
    No, no. It is the real definition of the word. Not aimed at anyone.

    Onion bagel with creamed cheese: The true cause of morning breath

    Virgule:
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Virgule: The French asthmatic cousin of "Vírgula".Also a distant relative of Virgil.

    Compendium:
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Compendium: Eulogy for a computer that has become deceased.

    Deceased:
    tailor

    who am I but a stitch in time
    what if I were to bare my soul
    would you see me origami

    7-8-2015

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    Deceased: Politically correct for "dead"

    Astute:
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Astute: The breaking of wind

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    Hooray! You guys are in rare form. Great puns all around and Calidore, I laughed out loud at that last one. Pendragon, thanks for teaching me a new word, I never knew that that 'slash' was called a virgule. I feel all literate and worldly now.

    Gallows: When you go on a first date with a winsome lass, you wonder what that gal allows.

    voluptuary:
    Obsessed with facial symmetry.

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    voluptuary: 1) one whose every indulgence is in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment 2) a woman shaped like an hourglass

    Indolent:
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Indolent:Indonesian observation of the 40 days after Carnival

    Carnival:
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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