LOL... Sorry... My parents yell at me all the time when I go home to visit about talking with "big words" that they don't understand. They think I'm putting on airs or some such. Unfortunately, that's more or less normal language for me, so I was thinking it might have been a bit of an insult along the lines my parents, or of comparing me to Kerry, etc., or even Bush's bastardizations of the language.
I actually rather used to enjoy reading our early-1970s encyclopedia when I was younger, at least when I was in an pinch and hadn't gotten to the library in a while. Not as fond of ship rigging as you are, but I learned all sorts of use(less)ful stuff. Now I get paid to entertain undergraduates by reciting it several days a week. :-) And my mother told me reading the encyclopedia would never pay the bills... heh little does she know. :-P
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Re: Canada vs US on liberalism
Date: 2004-11-07 08:35 pm (UTC)I actually rather used to enjoy reading our early-1970s encyclopedia when I was younger, at least when I was in an pinch and hadn't gotten to the library in a while. Not as fond of ship rigging as you are, but I learned all sorts of use(less)ful stuff. Now I get paid to entertain undergraduates by reciting it several days a week. :-) And my mother told me reading the encyclopedia would never pay the bills... heh little does she know. :-P