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<DIV><FONT size=4>A Plaintive Plea to <FONT color=#0000ff size=6><STRONG>All
Fair-Minded</STRONG></FONT> Vision 2020 Readers and <EM>in situ</EM>
Judges:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Since using the word "excrementitious" last week, I have been
sorely bested by others who chose to make a contest of finding better, more
appropriate uses of said word. I admit it: Joan Opyr, Ron Force,
Saundra Lund, Carl Westberg, and others have made my offerings look extremely
amateurish.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Therefore, I beseech you, fair-minded readers, to allow
me one more opportunity for an entry and at the same time keep you informed
about important events at the Cult of which you may not have heard:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>"On December 21, 2004 Christ Church Cult members celebrated
the Winter Solstice and gave <FONT color=#ff0000 size=5><STRONG>Worshipful
Homage to the god Lucre</STRONG></FONT> with a potluck. The
featured dish at this gala, black-tie affair (of which dish all present
were encouraged to partake by the burrowing, terror-inducing glare of Cult
Master Douglas Wilson) was an <FONT color=#a05454
size=5><STRONG>excrementitiously mephitic </STRONG></FONT>casserole
concocted by Splotch Blakey (who, according to unconfirmed
rumor, once arose as high in life as an apprentice cook at
Kennel-Ration)."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR></FONT><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com"><FONT size=4>deco@moscow.com</FONT></A><BR></DIV>
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