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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Joan Opyr<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 27, 2005
6:04 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Vision2020 Moscow<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] It's
excrementitious!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>So, excrementitious is not "new," but the latest
published use prior to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City>'s
post seems to have been 1875. Could we perhaps classify this as
"everything old is new again?"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Yours truly,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Joan/Auntie E<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>PS: I'm thinking that "It's excrementitious!"
would be a great thing for Tony the Tiger to say if, for example, he happened
to find a bit of mouse poop in his Frosted Flakes. I once had just
such a sad experience, spotting small, dark, currant-like objects floating up
past the cereal through the creamy white milk. Upon digging deeper into
the matter -- or rather, the box -- I found a whole, dessicated mouse.
This was not the fault of Kellogg's, I fear; the fault lay entirely with my
slovenly housekeeping. So let this be a lesson to you all: clean
out your pantry.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>PPS to Carl and Wayne: There. In less than four
hours, I found a use for excrementitious in not one but two -- nay, three --
sentences!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message -----<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Ron Force<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Thursday, January
27, 2005 4:41 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
vision2020@moscow.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> RE: [Vision2020] <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City>'s thoughts, Jim
Fisher, andletter to the LMT<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Not a "new" word. From the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oxford</st1:place></st1:City> English
Dictionary:<br>
<br>
{dag}1. Of the nature of the dregs or worthless part of any substance. Of<br>
food: Consisting largely of matter useless for nutrition; = EXCREMENTAL1 1.<br>
<br>
1623 HART Arraignm Ur. ii. 8 The..excrementitious part of the food is<br>
voided forth. 1661 LOVELL Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The flesh of wild<br>
beasts is lesse excrementitious and dryer, than that of the tame.<br>
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2. Of the nature of excrement or excreted matter.<br>
<br>
1586 BRIGHT Melanch. xix. 118 The aged..faile in the execution of<br>
externall actions..by excrementitious humiditie. 1623 ROWLANDSON God's<br>
Bless. 35 As if mildew were..an excrementitious humor. 1670 BOYLE in Phil.<br>
Trans. V. 2013 We kept the same Duckling in the same Receiver very close..to<br>
keep in the excrementitious steams of her body. 1744 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">BERKELEY</st1:place></st1:City> Siris §30<br>
Exhaling vessels, for carrying off excrementitious parts, are discovered<br>
throughout the whole surface of the vegetable. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 435 The<br>
scent of excrementitious animal juices, such as musk, civet, etc. 1826 KIRBY<br>
& SP. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxii. 297 Almost all insects discharge some<br>
drops of an excrementitious fluid. 1875 URE Dict. Arts II. 740 s.v. Guano,<br>
This extraordinary excrementitious deposit of certain sea-fowls.<br>
<br>
Consisting of, or of the nature of, an outgrowth.<br>
<br>
c1645 HOWELL Lett. <st1:place w:st="on">I.</st1:place> xxx. 60 Hair is
but an excrementitious thing. 1677<br>
HALE Prim. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Orig.</st1:City> <st1:State
w:st="on">Man.</st1:State></st1:place> III. iv. 266 These [feathers] are
excrementitious, and<br>
not really parts of the Bird.<br>
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Ron Force <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">ID</st1:State> <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><br>
rforce@moscow.com<br>
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Joan writes: "PS: I'd like to add that I much prefer <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Wayne</st1:place></st1:City>'s new word,<br>
"excrementitious," to Doug's word, "Intolerista."<br>
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