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(...) Yikes, that IS unfortunate! Here's one: "factoid"-- I have the same problem with the popular (2nd def'n.) use of this word (y'all who've used it this way here know who you are!) as is mentioned in the usage note at dictionary.com: (URL) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sure: just look at the further reading list. OTOH, it's a reactive test: I think they explicitly state that some questions are biased. To take the same poorly phrased example, I suppose anyone with elitist or corporatist tendencies would (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think this is a good time to illustrate another abused idiom: showstopper: "Brad Justus held up pictures of the Metroliner and Club Car - it was a showstopper." (there were actually quite a few showstoppers at Brickfest, not all of them (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My goodness this is a slanted little quiz! It borrows from the "worlds smallest political quiz" a bit, but with questions like: "In a civilised society, one must always have people above to obey and people below to command." it's hard to see (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Don't you just hate it when he's right about stuff??? Hmph. :-) ++Lar (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) All right, I wasn't going to admit it but... Economic Left/Right: 0.20 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -8.17 (yes, that's an eight) I guess you all know where I stand on the right to express oneself by burning the American flag. Maggie C. (yeah, I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ack, that bugs me too! Another pet peeve of mine is when people use the word "dilemma" to mean any old problem. Maggie C. P.S. To Richard M.-- after having looked it up in three separate dictionaries I grudgingly admit you were right about the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Congratulations, Larry
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(...) I may be misremembering(1) but I seem to recall that after he got done thanking me for my eloquent, reasoned and well thought out answers, he asked if he could talk to a "foamer" so I gave him your name. ++Lar <GD&R> (2) 1 - OK I *am* (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, if you saw somebody in a Cheer Leader uniform, with a nearly shaved bald head (and the remainder of the hair peroxided to platinum) flying around and mouthing off to everyone within shouting distance, you had the distinct pleasure of (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No where NEAR as frightening as the real thing let me assure you. (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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