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Sound management
A C Bowden
05/04/24 03:00 AM
Sopranos' high improvisation
Has no need of amplification,
But a microphone aids
A mezzo's fine shades
Or a baritone's rich declamation.
GALLOWS – GAMBLE
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Re: Clerihews
A C Bowden
05/01/24 12:51 AM
Jason Beer KC
Deserves a hefty fee
For grilling witnesses in the Post Office scandal
With the vast paperwork which he can effortlessly handle.
Sir Wyn Williams, the inquiry's Chair,
Controls proceedings with wisdom and care,
With an occasional intervention
When a witness's answer defies comprehension.
Post Office staff (whom I shall not name)
Mostly reply, with no hint of shame,
"I'm sorry, I cannot recall –
It's so long ago, I've forgotten it all".
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[b]ECLIPTIC[/b] - the plane occupied by the orbit
wofahulicodoc
04/30/24 08:40 PM
ELLIPTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (i-LIP-tik)
MEANING: adjective
1. Marked by extreme economy of expression in speech or writing.
2. Cryptic, ambiguous, or obscure.
3. Marked by ellipsis: the omission of one or more words from a sentence.
4. Relating to or shaped like an ellipse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek eleipein (to come short). Earliest documented use: 1715. The word is also used in its longer form, elliptical.
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ELLIP-STIC - mouth-coloring for men
ELL-OPTIC - the twelfth lens
ELI-P.T.-IC - like freshman Physical Education at Yale
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Re: Word for "hesitant to be excited/hopeful"?
wofahulicodoc
04/09/24 04:30 PM
Welcome, and congratulations on finding the first ray of hope you've seen for a while ! Hope your improvement is sustained.
Our Board sometimes seems to be in the throes of a chronic wasting disease, itself.
Hard to put your feeling into a single word... somewhere between cautious optimism and a wary euphoria is what it sounds like.
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