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[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hey Sarah!!!! Where have you been??? I LOVED your 'Umm...my dog ate my icon"! But I would love to see a pic too. NE has PROMISED that when moe, you and Donna unveil, he will too.....

[Ken, Moderator]

Show me the word "PROMISE." (Shoot, I don't even have a lawyer, so I'm on my own.)

[Boreal Elizabeth]

BunWat oh where oh where are you?

[Ken, Moderator]

What an eloquent, charming, and humorous intro. The prodigal daughter is home at last (I mean, from one parentheses addict to another).

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

At last!!!! I have been noting your lurking presence and hoping you would join in eventually. Look forward to your contributions (it will be nice to have someone who is quite often posting at the same time!)

[Boreal Elizabeth]

(ditto)
do you have a large rambling home?
i thought i took the cake with me, my adult daughter, her 2 children and my adult son and a little dog all living under one roof
will look forward to your posts

[Lisa]

Hello All,
A friend just sucked me in... er... I mean invited me to goodreads the other day, and already my productivity at work has reached an all time low. As IF I didn't waste enough time on tribe, myspace and e-mail. But there's something about conversing with fellow book lovers that can't be duplicated from the general (dare I say mostly illiterate) population. I need an element of communication and eloquence that is mostly missing in daily life. People around here think People Magazine and Survivor is the end all/be all of interesting conversation. I've actually been accused of being snobbish and wierd, because I have a vocabulary I'm not afraid to use, have lived quite happily with NO cable for years, and still seldom watch anything on TV but movies. I wait for the opportunity for someone to accuse me of being a know it all. Then I can reply - of course I don't think I know it ALL - I just know more than YOU.
(tongue in cheek)

[Ken, Moderator]

Yay. Another person who knows more than me. Welkommen, Lisa! You've landed in the right kitchen party.

[Lisa]

Just wait til you taste my cooking! Of German and Irish descent, I love through food, and feeding people makes me happy.
This is why my husband and I have gained about 20 lbs between us since our April nuptials. I thought we'd be eating healthier since by cooking at home, I could monitor ingredients better than restaraunt choices. Neglected to account for those indicators of my joy of cooking, and his amazement of my kitchen 'magic'. So, now I am only allowed to bake when we know we are having company, or taking it somewhere. *sigh* I think I was a dorm mom or head cook in a lord's manor in another life.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

....or a starving Irish peasant who is making up for lost time, like me! Welcome Lisa....slainte!

[Ken, Moderator]

Mmm. Too bad we can't eat "virtual" food. Jump over to the kitchen party any time and share a recipe. I experiment (uh, with recipes) all that time!

[Ken, Moderator]

Definitely on the salads. Three cheers for rabbit food. And you can even make FATTENING salad. Many restaurants do (with a major assist from the dressing). Have you heard of the "raw foods" movement? It's one of those foodie things that is going around.

[Boreal Elizabeth]

leafy liz?
hmmm-i was planning to change to solstice suzy in a month or so but i rather like your idea

[Ken, Moderator]

Leafy. Like Adam and Eve (who couldn't give a fig)...

[Boreal Elizabeth]

that's right-they much preferred apples ;)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I'm baaaa-aaaack!! And eating strawberries....camp food is stodge.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Thanks Donna! Who moved the furniture around while I was out?!

[Ken, Moderator]

Still not used to it, but the plus ça changes the better when you're my age. (Still, the chiffonier looks funny in the hallway.)

[Boreal Elizabeth]

yes odd indeed
and doesn't load as well
but hooray you're back!!!
do tell how was it?

[Mark]

Hi - I thought I would join this little group to see what cool things I could glean. Education-wise I consider myself to be, as quite probably do a number of readers, somewhat of an autodidact; however, I do have a classically oriented Liberal Arts education in the form of a B.A. in Political Science (Theory) with a minor in Music Literature (Composition/Vocal Lit.).

Since this is a reference type area, what do y'all think about Samuel Johnson's Dictionary? Are there any other good reads to this end?

MP

[Matthew]

I have no higher education, but I do love grammar and languages, and so it should be plain why I would join a group thus titled.

Hopefully, I can get me some learning.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome both of you! And we'll 'larn ya' Matt....and possibly Mark too....and hope to learn something back. That is what we are all about here.

[Old-Barbarossa]

Aye, despite my attempts to dumb down most threads I still end up walking away muttering "I did not know that", or having to hunt down poems.
Salutations to you new folk.

[Ken, Moderator]

Hey Matthew and Mark. Now all we need is Luke and John. (Uh, sorry. Biblical humor.)

Sorry to say I know little of Sam Johnson's dictionary, though I read that TWO new biographies just came out on that wonderful mess of a person. The reviewer concluded that the 1977 bio (by Name Escapes Me) still remains the best.

Boswell's is swell, too.

[Mark]

It has fun words! (thanks for the welcome y'all) - like Deosculation! now that's a right nice word if I do say so meself, :)

[Mark]

Let's see...

"Herbert and Judith's desultory talk had just devolved into a conversation composed primarily of desoculation punctuated by a few non-Bushman-like aspirates when suddenly, the doorbell rang."

Well there are quite a few other interesting words there as well - nicer ones to boot, 'though I haven't had a look in a while...

[Savvy]

Had to look this up! I agree with the author of the following..

"This word has very little to recommend it in the way of romance. Perhaps this is because deosculation sounds like something that happens when an escalator sucks your foot off

Just think, Sixpence None the Richer might have sung

Deosculate me out of the bearded barley
Nightly, beside the green, green grass.."

[Savvy]

"I'm going to adimpleate my girlfriend
...right after I desoculate her.
And then we will have cervisial fun."

This guy has a sense of humor!

[Mark]

Suanne - re: "deosculation sounds like something that happens when an escalator sucks your foot off"

I haven't laughed so much all month !

It seems as though he has things a bit confused - shouldn't have: "in the midst of their cerevisial rapture, adimpleated her mug before attempting deosculation"?

But then again - supposing he had quite suddenly eructated - oh my - then would his darling deigned to deosculate?

*cough* *cough* *clearing throat*

Or maybe I've got this all mixed up - ok ok - enough deosculatory badinage, let's quip this in the bud before it devolves to another...

[Mark]

okay, I didn't think it was a thread-stopper - yikes :)

[Boreal Elizabeth]

oh i don't think it was anything you said
ok maybe it was
i'm too wishy washy minded just now to follow the thought and when the foot came off
i sort of grossed out
and this is the intro thread and i think everyone has run to another thread
and/or everyone seems quite quiet lately
i was wondering if perhaps we were at wits end
having been quipping now for sometime
and thinking fresh members might rejuvenate us old hangers on
so...
have at it
quip away and we will respond...
eventually

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

No thread-stoppers here.....we all get busy or just get beguiled elsewhere for a while! I am glad we make you laugh!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Thread Stopper (or TS) is my nickname in other groups. I don't know what it is, but people don't know quite what to make of new_england's nonsense.

So they don't.

[Mark]

Now, New England, that certainly wasn't you - Now, I've never heard about Boswell's until now - is there much different in this person's dictionary or compendium or whatever?

[Savvy]

Mark,

I'm glad that I made you laugh!
I just can't warm to 'deosculate', but I sure didn't mean to gross out AE either!

T.S.? The 'powers that be' would most likely delete a post they found that objectionable.

But, surely this has to be a mighty tolerant group...being linguaphiles and all. :-)

[Boreal Elizabeth]

and wasn't there some controversy between the two?
johnson all "standardize now"
and boswell all "let it flow"

and susanne
i wasn't that grossed out
more just too mushy brained to follow the twists of wit
i just meant to welcome mark not object to your post
so please "don't go changin
to try to please me
you never have to work that hard ;)"

[Old-Barbarossa]

May I direct all to the dictionary episode of Blackadder, complete with Dr Johnson. It is on You Tube in 4 bits. A joy.
Here's a link to start the chuckles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52qSj...

[Savvy]

Love this part...

"I hope you will allow me to offer the doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
Oh, I am sorry sir. I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulations.
Certainly sir. I shall return, interfrastically."

What a stitch! Thanks Barbarossa!

[Mark]

pericombobulations - nice one rowan ;)

[Mark]

Now, now, we'll have no more extemporaneously entermetious expatiation about exauctoration, or extramuralization, echopraxiatic or elsewise.

[Leslie]

Hi! I just joined the group and thought I would introduce myself. I joined because of the description which said that this group is for those who love words. I have a passionate love of language and look forward to seeing what this group is all about. I am a high school English teacher in North Carolina, and I will be moving to Ohio at the end of January to be near my fiance. (We are geting married in June, and he is a fellow lover of words.)

[Ruth]

Welcome, Leslie. Glad to have you aboard.

[Boreal Elizabeth]

and congratulations on your upcoming nuptials

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Merry Christmas from the warm and wet Antipodes Leslie.

[David]

Marrying a Yankee?

[Ken, Moderator]

Yankee as in "from New England" = AOK.

Yankee as in "wearing Pinstripes" = Not so OK.

In any event, glad to see you here, Leslie, and look forward to your "words" on the threads.

[J.]

Hello! My name is Jessica. I teach 11th and 12th graders in Ohio. I have my B.A. in English and my master's degree in Education. I teach Composition and Grammar to seniors (and other students who need to make up English credits). I love to read. I am looking forward to this group!

[Ken, Moderator]

Hello, Jessica! Always good to see another English teacher on deck. I taught juniors and seniors, too, once upon a time. Presently, however, my job is to teach 14-year-olds (that fickle race known as "8th graders").

[David]

The never-ending struggle against illiteracy . . .

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hi Jessica (may I call you Goma?!). Have fun!