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Niminypiminy
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I need to suggest a new topic, don't I? How about rocks and stones?

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Indigenous Igneous

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Sir Kevin
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quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
grave garnet

What's so fecking serious about garnet? It happens to be my birthstone!

[Confused]

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jolly jasper

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Lyda*Rose

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[tangent]
quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
grave garnet

What's so fecking serious about garnet? It happens to be my birthstone!

[Confused]

I was trying to think of an adjective close to "deep", and that was the best I could do. No aspersions meant for the lovely garnet.

Doh! I could have used "great"! [Roll Eyes] [/tangent]

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alto n a soprano who can read music

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pretty petty pearls

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Did someone call me?

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very vivacious verdite (extra points! [Biased] )

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alto n a soprano who can read music

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X-ray'd Xylonite

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Young Youngite

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zippy zircon

And now:

Famous quotations.

(Must be attributable to a known source, spoken or written. Not general proverbs or maxims. Prominent parts of longer quotes, eg. "Four score and seven years ago", are acceptable.)

Amoral "Am I my brother's keeper?"

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beatific "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." (Plato)

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caustic "Call Me Ishmael"

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I have the power...Lucifer is lord!

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difficult "Do to others as you would have them do to you." Luke

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enthusing, England expects every man to do his duty

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forsaken For the love of God, Montresor!

[ 14. June 2012, 16:46: Message edited by: Stetson ]

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Gruesome: Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him.

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AJG

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Gobsmacking: "Go, and do likewise".

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heartless "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals". Franklin

[ 14. June 2012, 21:40: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]

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Immortal - "I am the Way the Truth and the Life"

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joli "J'accuse"

(Not sure if that's rendered correctly)

[ 15. June 2012, 05:30: Message edited by: Stetson ]

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keen "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and blind can read." Twain

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lily-livered lenient liberal "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
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mad military mans..make love, not war
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Negative 'never, never, never, never, never' (King Lear)

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quote:
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Negative (perhaps nihilistic) 'never, never, never, never, never' (King Lear)



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obligatory O tempores! O mores!* (Cicero)

* alas! for the times and the manners

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alto n a soprano who can read music

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pandering populist "Pat doesn't have a mink coat"
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Quiescent: "Que sera, sera" (Whatever will be, will be)

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reproachful 'Repent Ye and be Baptized!'

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shortfellows..ships that pass in the night
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truly "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."

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underwhelming "Unexamined life is not worth living"

(To me, it sounds like something you'd hear at a motivational seminar)

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victorious "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered.)

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