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Subject: 
Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 17:21:11 GMT
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If it's the word I found, it was pretty obscure to me.  But it has some
not-at-all-obscure negative variants.

Steve

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:40:02 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:

> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Todd Lehman writes:
> > I'll toss out a few random ideas off the top of my head...
> > [...snip...]
> 
> OK, all of those were too cute or trite...  But I'm excited now --
> I just thought of a not-too-obscure word whose second meaning (according
> to Merriam-Webster) goes:
> 
>   a mixture of diverse elements
> 
> and which also evokes visions of a related word which means
> 
>   to mix into a confused or disordered mass
> 
> in its verb form and
> 
>   a mass of things mingled together without order or plan
> 
> in its noun form.
> 
> --Todd



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  Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
 
(...) OK, all of those were too cute or trite... But I'm excited now -- I just thought of a not-too-obscure word whose second meaning (according to Merriam-Webster) goes: a mixture of diverse elements and which also evokes visions of a related word (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)

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