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fastred (27 words)
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Samme's Words, by Samme
Queer Words, by kodaz
Sex, by lucidityprevails
him and i , by electricblue
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I'll give you the best help I can:
Before you up the mountain go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
'Tis now some two and twenty years,
Since she (her name is Martha Ray)
Gave with a maiden's true good will
Her company to Stephen Hill;
And she was blithe and gay,
And she was happy, happy still
Whene'er she thought of Stephen Hill.
- William Wordsworth, 'The Thorn', 1798.
As an answer to plethora's comment, on another word (I just don't want it to become the "most active thread"):
I hate it too, and yes, plethora, it's your generation! :-) When I attended high school (I'm 28) it wasn't used that way, at least in Italy.
"bonnie and blythe
and good and gay"
- check bonnie
In the tales of Archy & Mehitabel (Don Marquis, 1916 onwards) the watchword of Mehitabel the cat was "toujours gay archy, toujours gay." Archy was a cockroach who couldn't hack the shift key on the typewriter, so always wrote in lower case.
An industrial town near Orenburg, Russia.
Yeah--that's probably the most sane policy.
For what it's worth, I try not to think too much about other people's reactions anymore. :-)
re: sprite—Wow! It is heartening to see how non-flamey that potentially volatile discussion remained.
Inspired by one of reesetee's comments there, I feel like volunteering this bit of tangential autobiographica: I am bisexual, and trying to figure out when semi-self-referential ironic gay comments are going to be well received, has often proved a challenging social puzzle.
Eeeeeek!
Not a problem, npydyuan. But whatever else you do here, avoid mentioning the word sprite! ;-)
Well, that's a relief. I was referring to the sense of fag identified by SonofGroucho. My logophilia, I'm afraid, is often matched with juvenilia!
Just a tad. But not to worry--I'm over it. :-)
Hmmm... no emoticon... have I genuinely offended?
Er...npydyuan? Easy there.
{sociophobic flail at humor contritely redacted by misshapen author}
Alas, I am full of woe.
I work hard for a living...
True enough. :-)
But no less bonnie, blythe, and good, I imagine.
Interesting, I had no idea what day of the week I was born on, but thanks to the internet, I could look it up! Turns out: Sunday. However I am rather straight. ;-)
Alas, I'm Tuesday's child. Apparently I am full of grace. ;-)
But the child that is born
on the Sabbath day is…
bonnie and blythe
and good and gay.