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  1. Bill W
    Most commonly used when speaking about babies that are just learning to talk. The word probably came from what happened at the Tower of Babel when God gave everyone a different language so they could no longer communicate and continue building the tower to heaven. After that happened, everyone merely began to babel and no one could understand anyone else.
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    As long as the person you're trying to elucidate isn't a troglodyte.
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    Spiders

    Bill W replied to Zombie's topic in The Lounge

    Do you think there might be giant spiders on other planets? If you do, I'm glad I'm not an astronaut.
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    I would like to wish everyone a Merry or Happy Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, a Joyous Kwanzaa. or merely Happy Holidays (I hope I haven't missed anyone since GA is inclusive), and I'd like to wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year (according to the Gregorian calendar).
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    I've both looked askance at others and had others look askance at me. Go figure. The word first came into use in the late 16th century of unknown origin, although it may have originated from the Old French a escone (hidden), the Italian word a scancio (obliquely or slantingly), or from the word askew (not in a straight or level position).
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    I wonder if Zona appeared to her mother and told her this on Halloween.
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    Thank you for the feedback and I'm glad you see Christmas in the same light that I do.
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    There is, if you consider narwhal a synonym for whopper. A rose, or a whopper, by any other name is still a rose, or whopper.
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    I think I'll go to Burger King and order a narwhal then.
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    We didn't get a TV until I was a teen, so I would take the transistor radio that I won playing a punch board and tune into the local radio station to listen to The Shadow, along with The Lone Ranger, Abbott and Costello, Gene Autry, George Burns and Gracie Allen, I Love Lucy, and the various shows that presented full-length plays and dramas.
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    Where's the list of Myr's Word of the Day?
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    Maybe Santa now has a magical version of Zoom, so he no longer has to peek in windows.
  13. Bill W
    I'd like to quash, or squash, people that are grumpy over the holidays.
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    Spiders

    Bill W replied to Zombie's topic in The Lounge

    Mea culpa for not making that clear. Your bosses.
  15. Bill W
    And is the old man offering to take the boy somewhere over the rainbow?
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    There are a lot of guys that feel the same way.
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    I've now submitted my choice as well, but I'll work with whichever one acquires the most votes.
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    or ransacking grocery stores before any predicted weather emergency
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    And I always thought it was a combination of the meanings of the words 'ran' and 'sack'. To run through and take whatever you could get your hands on.
  20. Bill W
    They're all great themes, so I'll have to sleep on it for a couple of days.
  21. Bill W
    Pooh discovered the word "honey" can have more than one meaning. those practice lips can be use for more than just to practice kissing, and a multi-purpose plunger for the bathroom. Holiday shopping has never been so much fun!
  22. Bill W
    Some grandmothers preferred other millifleur items as well, such as millifleur curtains or wallpaper. However, just like with eating too much candy, too much of a good thing can be bad.
  23. Bill W
    Thank you for the feedback, Raven, and I'm glad you enjoyed this story. I felt a story such as this would be a good way to get readers in the Christmas spirit and set the mood for the holidays.
  24. Bill W
    If memory serves me correctly, the meme Myr used for this is from the 1980s Apple commercial loosely based on the novel 1984.
  25. Bill W
    Isn't that rather big of the English. If they could rule other countries, then why shouldn't one of those citizens have a chance to play a significant part in the British government. Jolly good.
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