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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:24:09 EST
- From: <CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- Newsgroups: alt.cascade
- Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Pho
- References: <1993Jan20.230707.10353@coe.montana.edu>
- <1993Jan21.161657.10337@news.duc.auburn.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.161657.10337@news.duc.auburn.edu>, horntho@eng.auburn.edu
- (Thomas J. Horn) says:
- >>>: % 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.'
-
- *SIGH* Alabaster, short for Allah baster, is a holy Arabic kitchen utensil.
- You meant to say "antebellum."
-
- -Craig D.
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