Re: Norm Nowrecki - TheTale To This Point (Including Part Four)

Thenkew, thenkew very much. Dave in Fairfax

And my wife wonders why I sit here giggling uncontrollably!!!!!

Nahmie

And you only missed it by a few hours. j4 :-)

Wow, I had to look that one up.

Hey, you think that's hard, try using "definistrate" without it being contrived.

I did it, though.

Bill

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Suggestions for definistrate:

1. defenestrate 2. definitized 3. definiteness 4. defenestrates 5. defenestrated 6. definitizes 7. definitudes 8. dedifferentiates 9. defeminized 10. definitives

My son (who is a bit eccentric) loves to use the word "defenstrate". He finds ways to slip it into conversations all the time.

We've started calling him "Ian the Defenstrator"

Mike

Please remove the spamtrap to email me.

Sorry. That should have been "defenestrate."

Bill

With tongue firmly in cheek.... Just don't throw it out the window with the wash water. :-))))))) Tales of a Boatbuilder Apprentice

If only it meant "to throw out the (MS-)Windows", then one could use it as an alias for "installing Linux".

Damn, I like that idea.

"I defenestrated my Wintel and turned it into a Lintel."

This bringing of sticks and bricks architectural language into the bits and bytes architectural realm has real potential for extending our ability to confuse nearly everyone about nearly everything.

I like that a lot.

Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker (ret) Real Email is: tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet Website:

You espouse an ineluctable confluence of cognoscente conviviality, ineffectual at eschewing obfuscation, then?

"Oh, Ron, you're just being facetious." "I am *NOT*!!!! Name one thing I've done all day that's been fasheesh!! (sp?)"

{I _wish_ I could take credit for _that_ rejoinder, but it was one of the ministers at my church, responding to a comment by his wife.)

You should defenestrate your dictionary, or get a better spell checker!