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Snowleopard:
I love that.  But then I love Nero Wolfe, both the books and the TV show.

Snowleopard:
Found a cool word today.
The word - Manes - which was the word that the Romans used for a ghost or shade.

Griffyn612:
pule (pyool) - to whine or wimper.

Also, I think someone early in the thread said mavin is a word for master, but I think it's maven - one who is experienced or knowledgeable, and expert.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on August 17, 2011, 01:30:02 PM ---Also, I think someone early in the thread said mavin is a word for master, but I think it's maven - one who is experienced or knowledgeable, and expert.

--- End quote ---

It is indeed maven.  Hence:

Once upon a weekend weary, while I pondered, beat and bleary,
Over many a faintly printed hexadecimal dump of core --
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some Source user chatting, chatting of some Mavenlore.
"Just a power glitch," I muttered, "printing out an underscore --
                Just a glitch and nothing more."
                               
 (from the EFF online magazine back in about 1991)

Gruud:
"Harrumphed", and Word knows how it's spelled.  ;D

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