Hi there, I'm new to this forum, a Westerner born and bred, but I've got grandparents from the north (Michigan) and grandparents from the South (Arkansas). I've got a question about whether a Southerner--from Mississippi in particular--would say LEEV-ur or LEV-ur and EETH-ur or EYE-thur? What do yo...

Thanks for the word...would never have guessed there was a link between cloy and clavichord...

Not offended, non-plussed.

Lighten up, bnjtokyo. It's been changed--in fact, it had already been changed when you posted the above.

There is a private message function which could have been well utilized.

Seemingly no sense of humor...and as such, I will apologize for any offense given.

...and all that glitters is not gold.

Glad for the new post!

Some aren't freelancers by choice today, either.

Pay can be good, the boss is great, but the benefits lack a bit...

A Madrid bird sanctuary sent several whooping cranes to a facility in Alaska. Upon landing, it was so cold at the airport that most of the birds refused to disembark. Word soon spread that the cranes from Spain stayed mainly on the plane. (By the way, for the humor challenged, this is a joke. It is ...

Dear Skinem, I must protest: I never said any such thing. I believe accuracy in matters like this are the sin qua non. Otherwise we are in an Orwellian world where "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" --"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much...

...or as one of my poli sci profs said way back when--"reading tea leaves" when he referred to polling...

It is amazing to me how accurate they can be if done right.

You might send Perry a private message to see if he can read it on the off chance he hasn't seen this post.

Dear Skinem, According to the Jefferson Encyclopedia at the Unversity of Virginia Library (http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Government_big_enough_to_supply_you...%28Quotation%29) They have never found anything like "A governement big enough . . . ." in Jefferson's writing. T...

Well, One Look is up to 8 citations now. This does seem a particularly nasty little form of humiliation, with little use in justice. Unless I were given major concessions, I'd refuse and fight it, physically if need be. Good luck with that. Then you'd just do your perp walk with messed up hair and ...

Thanks for the heads up.
Great movie that I haven't seen in years.

Thanks for the suggestion...and post more!

Here's the link from when it was posted in the "Good Word Discussion"...

http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3157&highlight=conundrum

I usually relate this word to the road and/or motorcycles. I used to race motocross roughly a hundred years ago (feels like it) and ended up all too often in the berm...

Nice word...thanks for the suggestion!

(I call those doo-hickey's berms as well.)

... (Are you experiencing floods where you live????) No. I'd be fine any way, up on a hill, although one of my creeks and a spring got kinda large for a bit. It was like the clouds parted at our county and went around. Flooding all around, but not here. For an example of how much rain it was, my br...