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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 06/10/2008 14:43

Next time a writer used the term quixotic to describe Sarah Palin, could you just check that he did actually mean to imply that she was a romantic but impractical dreamer?

Because I doubt if he did.

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enduringsurrey · 07/10/2008 18:42

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 18:44

Foolextremely?

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 18:47

Oooh, have just found out who you are, es

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enduringsurrey · 07/10/2008 18:47

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 18:49

I'm still not convinced that it needs an apostrophe at all.

(Remember judges' lodgings? )

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enduringsurrey · 07/10/2008 18:50

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littlelapin · 07/10/2008 18:52

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 18:52

I don't think I am - it's Janh

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 18:53

& yes, it was the jostling I remembered

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enduringsurrey · 07/10/2008 18:54

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 18:55

legging it for the door, in fact ROFL

Oh ks, it is so nice to see you here again

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littlelapin · 07/10/2008 18:55

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 19:07

Little, ks was always one of the loveliest & funniest MNers in the dim & distant

(and apparently, according to cod anyway, her name is pronounced Kays - not K-S, which is how she has always sounded in my head - but I'm guessing we can call her E-S in our heads now, not Ess )

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 19:08

Now I wonder if we can lure SenoraP back in too, as I haven't seen her here for months & months

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enduringsurrey · 07/10/2008 19:08

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 19:11

Oh of course it would be e's, not ess! Bugger!

What are you doing these days? I think you were still working for that dentist last time we spoke. How old is your lovely boy now? (He must be 10 or 11???)

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 19:13

Es

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enduringsurrey · 07/10/2008 19:15

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WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 19:32

Is it Italian?

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enduringsurrey · 07/10/2008 20:16

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filthymindedvixen · 07/10/2008 20:19

ES, I can't remember who you were (2004 vintage here but under fullmoonfiend)
But as a fellow pedant, I salute you!

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roisin · 07/10/2008 20:28

Hello! I was thinking of you very recently and wondering whether you were on here somewhere incognito.

Has your ds started secondary this time then? Has he settled in well?

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