Thank you for the link! You're obviously no hag who can be hedged in! (I mean to say you're no hag. Period. No one who can be hedged in. I'm not hedging here. I think I'll shut up before I get deeper.)skinem, skinem, skinem. What are we going to do with you, except jump the hedge and run with your post? Etymonline has this smorgasboard on hag.Hagiography--I thought it was the study of old ladies...
(I know. Now I'll get letters.)
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Words as shovels..
Skinny - have you ever heard the expression, stop while you "are ahead", which I believe has it's root in the ancient Norman phase "Stop whilst ye' have a head!". It is also related to the hag... Witch trials, where witnesses reported that they had been tuned into newts... Although they "Got Better", in this modern age you have no such guarantees... beware of the "pox"!
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Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns
Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns
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portokalos wrote:
Just see.
http://www.iconet.gr/mambo/index.php?op ... &Itemid=34
Hey that is an impressive site... got any more?
-Eric
Just see.
http://www.iconet.gr/mambo/index.php?op ... &Itemid=34
Hey that is an impressive site... got any more?
-Eric
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Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns
Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns
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Re: Words as shovels..
Or as they say in Texan: "when you find yerself in a hole, first thing to do is quit diggin'."Skinny - have you ever heard the expression, stop while you "are ahead", which I believe has it's* root in the ancient Norman phase "Stop whilst ye' have a head!". ..
*aaagh! <<aaagiography?
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!
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No I just google the word.
http://www.agiografies-vakouftsis.gr/ca ... name=Icons
and
http://users.otenet.gr/~mystakid/icons.htm
http://www.agiografies-vakouftsis.gr/ca ... name=Icons
and
http://users.otenet.gr/~mystakid/icons.htm
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Just a smidgen
Those sites are nice too, just a couple more would be appreciated..
Eric
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Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns
Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns
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http://www.theiconart.gr/main_en.htm
http://www.euart.gr/active.aspx?mode=en ... 1b94d}View
http://www.byzarticon.gr/en/ektesi.htm
http://www.euart.gr/active.aspx?mode=en ... 1b94d}View
http://www.byzarticon.gr/en/ektesi.htm
"What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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