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- From: horntho@eng.auburn.edu (Thomas J. Horn)
- Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Pho
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- References: <1993Jan20.230707.10353@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:16:57 GMT
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- In article 10353@coe.montana.edu, icsu0260@cs.montana.edu (Eric) writes:
- > In article <C15xnr.9Iz@mach1.wlu.ca> mart4678@mach1.wlu.ca (Phil Martin u) writes:
- >>Ken Johnson (ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- >>:
- >>: In article <MJD.93Jan15141220@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Mr. Medulla") writes:
- >>:
- >>: % An antonym is two words that are spelled the same but have opposite
- >>: % meanings. No examples exist in English
- >>:
- >>: $ No, that's an antelope. An antonym is someone who hasn't got a name.
- >>:
- >>: # No, an antelope is when your mom's sister runs off with the postman, and
- >>: # _Anton Nym_ was an (unsuccessful) musical comedy by Fedor Dostoevski and
- >>: # Dave Brubeck. The word you want is `antimony'.
- >>:
- >>: Antimony is money you have to pay your ex-wife. You're thinking of
- >>: `anemone'. As in "Love your anemones."
- >>:
- >>No, no, 'anemone' is the white plastery stuff they pump your bowels full of
- >>before an abdominal X-ray, you're thinking of 'Admantium', the substance that
- >>The Wolverine's skeleton is reinforced with..
- >
- > No, Admantium is a nasal steroid spray, which will "add man to um."
- > The word you want is `apogee.'
-
- No, no, no. 'Apogee' is a word that refers to the seventh red delicious fruit
- in a series. The word that you need is 'alabaster.'
-