Breakfast laughter...

Jun 12, 2008 4 Replies

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"It's just some people in a smoke-filled room who dreamed it up," he told the Associated Press. "Plutoids or haemorrhoids, whatever they call it. This is irrelevant."



...Jim Thompson



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Whenever professional associations get uppity like that they become a big nuisance. In my line of work it's the radiometrists. Redefining commonly-used words is a favourite strategy of the self-important and the totalitarian.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others"

Which inspires me to coin a new word, "posteur"

John

From "poseur" and "posterior", I gather?

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs

... or in Texan "postificator".

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