Gabfest: And Thereby Hangs A Tail

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  1. justanothergirl

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    Edited to reflect it. Chrome on mac still has lot of issues loading IL esp while responding to posts . One of the reasons I just give up many times.
     
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    Sure I understand the frustration myself .
     
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    I had the misfortune of having my identity stolen. Since then I've used lifelock.
    Consider getting life lock. I use it to monitor all activity on all three credit bureaus. Any activity is instantly flagged and I get a message about it.

    I did put an alert on my credit and even then some of the cc companies didn't call me as was mentioned in the alert. Anyway, with lifelock I haven't had any surprises. Phew!!!!
     
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    Ira is Latin for "anger", justified wrath, and Ira Ringold has the ring of crotchetiness in old age. Is there another Bellowian Ira?

    Shoo! Shoo! Rihana and I are discussing case studies, devising strategies, formulating techniques to combat this "no-like" syndrome. I might set up a relief "like" fund for the underprivileged likees to be compensated with charitable likes from that fund. I will crowdsource this initiative inviting "like" donations from benefactors with surplus likes to provide for neglected likees, resented likees, mistaken likees, and downtrodden likees.

    Next time I post a garden picture (sob! sob!), I shall redeem a "like" from that fund using my coupon code "186LIKE". I don't aspire your weighted and heuristic and color-conscious "like" (sob! sob!). I return your one-time, one-horned rhinoceros "like" from last week. Give that to someone else. Transfer it to some color-blasting purple cabbage or blue tomatoes. As I mentioned, I observed you closely, even if I were to painstakingly raise a plantation in arid grounds, you will never "like" that grand enterprise because it's me. Such is the Bellowian or Rothian curse to be unheard and unseen and un-liked by the meshugas skipping posts. I can live with that (sob! sob!).

    However, none of this casts a doubt or discredits your entitlement to catch-all Watson because you truly deserve it. Because, that's me even though you are you.
     
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    Highlights of the week in E & PG

    Viswa: why did I provoke everyone with Watson?

    Rihana: why am I grossly misunderstood?

    Gauri: what to do with my wild squash?

    Sokanasanah: what happened to these ladies? Why such wails and hails?

    Jag: why don't people cut me slack for using Mac.

    Ira: I won't halt till I find a herbal cure for this "no-like" syndrome in some garden or plantation

    Laks: ayyo! I was away for few days and these monkeys transformed education forum into a bickering relationship forum.
     
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    Squat?:astonished:
    Is there a (single)word in an Indian language for sitting cross-legged on the floor that English could borrow and keep?
     
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    No 'Like' - because I don't like Roth. His work will not endure. It will remain of its place and time.

    Cannot afford the probability,
    no matter how low,
    of a 'Like' being interpreted
    as an endorsement of Zuckerman & Co. :icon_writing:

    :smash2: :smash2::smash2::smash2: That's Philip under the hammer.
     
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    In yoga class, it's always 'Lotus' - full lotus, half-lotus, easy cross ...
    'Squat' suggests an Asian squat (sitting on one's haunches) or if there's Adidas involved, the Slavic Squat.
     
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    Now, now. There, there. Here's some tissue. Stop your sniffles, and I'll buy you some ice cream and take you to the zoo!
     
  10. Thyagarajan

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    yes sister. the equivalents are available in Hindi, फूहड़ and Tamil குந்து (from google)
    Thank you. regards.
    l
     
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