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Hartford Gongaware's avatar

re: words in which the suffix -ster means "not so much," Alex my dear wife offers Miss, and Mister.

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Roy Blount Jr's avatar

The ur-ster.

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Hartford Gongaware's avatar

no doubt. bliss... and blister.

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Good Jonathan's avatar

Just wondering how Sandy Frazier knew, or discovered, the origins of Mad Vlad’s surname.

Also, people who dream are dreamers but people who drive are teamsters. I want to be a dreamster teamster.

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Roy Blount Jr's avatar

Hey Jonathan. By the way I typed Sandy's book wrong. It's Travels in Siberia. He speaks Russian.

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William R Dunlap's avatar

When not laughing out loud I’m always smiling while reading Roy Blount Juniors “take a little piece of my heart“contributions, there is so much to learn about language , and Roy knows it all.

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Roy Blount Jr's avatar

Thanks Billy. Will we see you at the Ogden gala?

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Ralph Schuller's avatar

I shared this post with my friend Rick, and this was his response: Irregardless, the lunatic female in the pharmacy, witnessing the loss of her community’s indigenous wealth because of the retail armageddon, was overheard whispering, “Howdy, Jesus!” .

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Roy Blount Jr's avatar

Builds very nicely.

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Sue LaPlante (WI)'s avatar

Well done Rick!

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