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Post by xenavirgin on Oct 20, 2005 12:15:11 GMT -6
Ah, the word which is part of the title of one of my favourite books!
Illusions: Tales of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
RELUCTANT
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Oct 20, 2005 14:46:05 GMT -6
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post by Phalon on Oct 20, 2005 16:51:27 GMT -6
It's sometimes so very hard to shallow.
Oops, I believe I may have read that incorrectly.
hard
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Post by katina2nd on Oct 22, 2005 19:55:48 GMT -6
Read it wrong hey P, that's "hard" to imagine, ya expect us to shallow that one. Expect.
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Post by Phalon on Oct 23, 2005 8:24:35 GMT -6
Old ladies; once stacked; now drooping below their waists and in dire need of a heavy-duty bra/harness combination. Has-been body-builders; once hard and well-defined; now mushy and jelly-like. Expect: pectoral muscles gone soft; they are no more.
Peter Piper pected a pect of pickled pecters. Why? And what'd he do with them?
Pickled pecters; once fresh, but now shriveled. Past tense: Expects.
What do you expect first thing in the morning: coherency? Lower your expectations.
I really pectore-all through that word, didn't I: busted it all up.
pectoral
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Post by xenavirgin on Oct 23, 2005 10:42:59 GMT -6
Thought you'd got us with that one P. As the feast progressed, the warmth in the room escalated, causing the little cone of wax on his head to melt. As the wax dribbled its way over the beak and eyes of the hawk on his pectoral, his nostrils flared sensing the heavy scent of lotus flowers. Lotus
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Post by guru on Oct 28, 2005 1:43:26 GMT -6
"In the world of sin, I must behave myself like unto the lotus flower whose purity is not defiled by the mud."
The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters
sin
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Oct 28, 2005 11:51:17 GMT -6
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
José Bergamín
punishment
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Post by Phalon on Oct 29, 2005 22:58:52 GMT -6
Punishmeant to be humorous, but mine are often punishment: horribly torturous to endure.
torture
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Post by katina2nd on Oct 29, 2005 23:19:47 GMT -6
"Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable." A. P. Herbert.
Extracted.
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Post by guru on Oct 30, 2005 3:04:34 GMT -6
"The king went about his kingdom, with a bunch of his soldiers, and he extracted a birthing gift.. thirty percent of everything his subjects had, in honor of his child. They bled, his people did.. but they paid the fee, for they knew the penalty would be dire. "
from "The Longest Night" by Melissa Good
penalty
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Post by Phalon on Oct 30, 2005 18:13:23 GMT -6
"Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The season' difference; as, the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind. Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, 'This is no flattery.'"
William Shakespeare
churlish
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Post by guru on Nov 1, 2005 0:25:35 GMT -6
On the approach of Alexander with a numerous retinue, Diogenes raised himself up a little, and the monarch affably inquired how he could serve him? "By standing out of my sunshine," replied the churlish philosopher.
from "A Smaller History of Greece" by William Smith
retinue
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Post by Phalon on Nov 1, 2005 0:33:34 GMT -6
"I retinue oughta be fixin' to git yurself down to the shindig soon".
(My really, really bad impression of a southern accent)
accent.
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Post by xenavirgin on Nov 1, 2005 18:43:50 GMT -6
"Accent? Vat accent vould you be talking about dahlink?"
Eva Gabor, or was it ZsaZSa?
Talking.
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Post by guru on Nov 1, 2005 22:12:55 GMT -6
"All I had to do was touch her. I reached up as she was talking, and I traced her lips with a finger. They were so soft and I was mesmerized by the way that they stilled and then trembled. And then, she kissed me. It was an affirmation of life, of love, of our commitment to remain together."
from the fanfic Letters to Ephiny by TZ
commitment
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 4, 2005 19:16:11 GMT -6
Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturant thought can rise.
Gerda Lerner
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Post by Phalon on Nov 6, 2005 17:38:23 GMT -6
'essential on a wild goose chase down yonder to the mill pond.
Southern is so easy to pun. Ok, so maybe not; not for anyone other than myself to understand what I just said anyway, it essentially being bottom of the barrel as far as punning goes. I'll spare you anymore....uhm...for now.
Leaving instead this from a famous botanist of local lore:
"There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done." Liberty Hyde Bailey
epoch
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Nov 6, 2005 22:27:09 GMT -6
Two great men....two totally opposing statements.
Lord Byron
Think’st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the way-side as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,—”Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus.”
ACTIONS
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Post by guru on Nov 9, 2005 23:05:33 GMT -6
"Ephiny-- that was her name. One of the best fighters I've met. She died as a warrior. And for that, I have no guilt in my actions."
Brutus to Gabrielle in "End Game"
warrior
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Post by Phalon on Nov 10, 2005 6:34:57 GMT -6
Warrior, Princess, Tramp.... Which shall it be today? My leather's at the cleaners. That's two outta the way.
My crown is broken; My gown is dusty. The scepter in pieces. At this Princess stuff, I'm rusty.
Such a dilemma; I've nothing to wear. Forget the Xena get-up; I'll be the irritating one with blonde hair.
Ouch, that hurt. Big, heavy sais.
Sais
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Post by xenavirgin on Nov 10, 2005 6:52:58 GMT -6
Very Nice Madam P.
Sais Who? Sais Me that's who!
Who?
XV
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Post by Phalon on Nov 10, 2005 23:50:36 GMT -6
Who's Gerkin? A man in a pickle without a head, that's who.
Beheaded
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Post by xenavirgin on Nov 11, 2005 14:12:22 GMT -6
Heheh.
As soon as my Legacy arrives, I beheaded for California this January.
Legacy
XV
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Post by Phalon on Nov 11, 2005 22:09:55 GMT -6
Legacy...legacy...legacy...leg, let's see.... Hhhmm...lots of strange images of legs in my head of late.
A Glam Rocker's Legacy: Spandex tights and leg warmers.
gams
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Post by guru on Nov 12, 2005 0:01:00 GMT -6
“Sorry, sweety, I got things. You know-- things. Don’t say it, baby. You’re something else. You’re a swell-lookin' tomato with a nice set of gams, but baby-- I gotta go-- Dig?”
Jack to Mel in 'The Xena Scrolls'
tomato
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Post by xenavirgin on Nov 12, 2005 3:44:55 GMT -6
"You say tomato, and I say tomato. You say potato,and I say potato. Let's call the whole thing off." Lacks something when it's only written. PotatoXV
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Post by Phalon on Nov 12, 2005 16:41:08 GMT -6
So we're into vegetables now? Never turnip my nose at them....except turnips; ick.
Joxer: "Yeah-- well I got us breakfast-- turnips."
Xena: "Turnips-- did you say turnips?"
Joxer: "Now, there's a woman who really likes her vegetables."
from Been There, Done That
vegetables
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Post by xenavirgin on Nov 12, 2005 17:10:15 GMT -6
Chocolate is a vegetable!
Chocolate comes from cocoa beans. Beans are vegetables.
Chocolate contains sugar most sugar is now derived from sugar beets Beets = vegetables.
To add further nutrition it is recommended to dip fruit into the chocolate, thereby adding a secondary food group to your diet.
And remember STRESSED is just DESSERT spelled backwards!
Chocolate
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Post by Phalon on Nov 12, 2005 17:28:03 GMT -6
orgasm
Is that acceptable; well, sure it is, but in here, I mean.
Uhm...ok
Chocolate - extreme euphoric bliss
bliss
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