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Adam Hoekwater at ahoekwat@nd.edu wrote:
> cos·mic - adj.
>
> 1.) Of or relating to the universe, especially as distinct from Earth.
> 2.) Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast: “a coming together of heads of
> government to take up the cosmic business of nations” (Meg Greenfield).
>
> ----------------------------------------
> [Greek kosmikos, from kosmos, universe.]
>
>
> It's called "Cosmic Toys", not "Get your LEGO Classic Space sets here". :^)
> My store was called LegoMonkey, and nobody ever complained about my utter lack
> of a certain brown plastic simian. 8^D
>
> -A
You can use dictionary.com! You get a gold star!
I was making kind of a small joke here and, as tends to happen in
newsgroups, things are getting a little out of hand.
It was a JOKE, people! Hence the " :^D "
e·mo·ti·con (-mt-kn)
n.
A series of keyed characters used especially in e-mail to indicate an
emotion, such as pleasure [ :-) ] or sadness [ :-( ].
~M
P.S. You don't have any monkey minifigs on your LegoMonkey brickbay site.
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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