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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:57:06 EST
- From: <CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93021.085706CSD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.cascade
- Subject: Re: Mushy_O_Phobic v. CloseAirSupport_O_Phobics
- References: <8189@skye.ed.ac.uk> <C15xnr.9Iz@mach1.wlu.ca>
- <1993Jan20.230707.10353@coe.montana.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.230707.10353@coe.montana.edu>, icsu0260@cs.montana.edu
- (Eric) 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.'
-
- Come on. "Apogee" is the ancient Indo-European word meaning 'the letter that
- comes after H' What you're talking about is 'anabolic'.
-
- --Craig
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