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  1. April 12th, 2010, 08:08 AM #21
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    Gadzooks.
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    I can love my fellow man, but I'm damned if I'll love yours.
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  2. April 12th, 2010, 08:29 AM #22
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    Strange how people like the complicated and unusual, no-one who used to be an avid Dr Seuss reader out there, fox, box, socks.
    I always had a weakness for the word prunes, not the same in the singular mind.
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    I seem to recall Norman Lindsay had a few that were intereresting. I'll see what I can find.

    And there was an odd word used by one of those two mountebanks in Huckleberry Finn but do you think I can remember it?
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  5. April 12th, 2010, 10:17 AM #25
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    Quote Originally Posted by Like a Fox View Post
    I also quite like obsequious.
    If the cap fits...
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    I always liked these:
    “If you brush my hair, I’ll bleep you off.”
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  7. April 12th, 2010, 12:15 PM #27
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    Loquacious.
    Yon.
    Ambit.
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    Perdition.

    I often reside there.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." James Dean
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    Perambulate.
    Dither.
    Tizzy.
    Ostentatious.
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    "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it." - Groucho Marx
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    Humdinger.
    Hoosegow.
    Calabash.
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