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peeplj wrote:If memory servers...
If memory servers? Servers?

Aaarrrggghhh!!!

That's nearly as bad as writing your boss an email telling her you may be coming down with the flute. (Was supposed to say "flu.")

I need a way to turn the autocorrect "frequently typed words" function in my fingers off, please.

And, incidentally, I have it on good authority that Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head...but that's a different story, methinks, and as I'm sure it left her with quite a headache at the time, we'll leave it untold.

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well, at least you saw it!

went right past me, it did...
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Denny wrote:well, at least you saw it!

went right past me, it did...
Me too. I'm much more apt to notice my own mistakes until I quote someone...then I notice, and often correct it.
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Yez made me think of the chorus of "Amo, Amas, I love a lass"
and I summoned up the strength to look up "cockalorum".
Why has this useful term fallen into disuse?

It means a small bumptious person.

(And bumptious means "offensively vigorous").

I told this to my daughter and she seemed to think I meant her.

Despite that, I still think it's a useful word. :-?
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It's not everyone who can use cockalorum in a sentence.

Rise up from your Barnacle, Don Niperi Septo. Put on your Fortune's Crackers and your Hay-Down Treaders and come down the Wooden Hill, because White-faced Simoni has a spark of Hot Cockalorum on his tail.
If we don't pour pondalorum on it quick the great Castle of Strawbungle will be in Hot Cockalorum.

- Séamus Ennis

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Well, you managed it better than Séamus Ennis, then.
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Innocent Bystander wrote:look up "cockalorum"
You normally have to look down to find a cockalorum.

BTW small bumptious people need love too. (I may start a campaign)
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jbarter wrote:
Innocent Bystander wrote:look up "cockalorum"
You normally have to look down to find a cockalorum.

BTW small bumptious people need love too. (I may start a campaign)
djm uses "cockalorum" three times in one post, and look who shows up. :lol:
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that's one of those "D'uh" thingies innit?
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Denny wrote:that's one of those "D'uh" thingies innit?
I always thought he was.
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I thought it was more of a "bumptious" thing. :-?

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Oi, you leave my thingy out of this.
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How has Nano not seen this thread?!
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emmline wrote: Bom, bom bom bom, bom bom, bom bom bom.
Bom bom, bom bom bom.
A dang, a dang dang dang
A ding a dong ding.
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The answer can still be found in the question of who put the ram IN the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong.
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