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Old 08-25-2009, 08:22 PM
 
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Its a word meaning dirt and filth.

Googled to no avail.
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Old 08-25-2009, 08:47 PM
 
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Try Googling "soot" and see if that's what you're looking for.
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Old 08-25-2009, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Aloverton
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Sounds somewhat like they're talking about soot, as in the black stuff that gets all over my hand when I open or close the chimney flue.
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Old 08-25-2009, 09:44 PM
 
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Hmm...you say you couldn't successfully google a word. Now I know I've officially become a dinosaur. There are these things--let me make sure I have the terminology right--I believe they're called dictionaries. I'm positive this will be hard to believe, but these dictionaries actually help you look up words! It's true; I swear!

Rest assured, however, that I'm not trying to plant the idea in anyone's head that it's possible to have life without google. I know when a concept is too radical to put forth in a public forum.
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Old 08-26-2009, 09:31 AM
 
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in another culture, "welsh" would appeal to certain groups and/or individuals.

goo*** not so bad, after all. humm**?

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Old 08-26-2009, 10:29 AM
 
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in another culture, "welsh" would appeal to certain groups and/or individuals.
Words are funny that way, aren't they? Once upon a time, if you were happy you might be described as feeling "gay."
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Old 08-26-2009, 10:32 AM
 
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Words are funny that way, aren't they? Once upon a time, if you were happy you might be described as feeling "gay."
In those days, a baseball twirler threw the ball toward home plate, to the acclaim of a stadium full of cranks.
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Old 08-26-2009, 06:41 PM
 
Location: Vermont
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Words are funny that way, aren't they? Once upon a time, if you were happy you might be described as feeling "gay."

Yup! But don't use that word to describe your happy friend cause others will think you are picking on a certain population!
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Old 08-27-2009, 09:59 AM
 
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Yup! But don't use that word to describe your happy friend cause others will think you are picking on a certain population!
Indeed! An innocent comment such as, "My, but you seem to be in a gay mood today" could touch off a fistfight!

These kinds of things remind me of an old George Carlin routine on the use of words. He imagined a scene in a Western movie where f**k was substituted for kill. "OK, Sheriff. We're gonna f**k you and we're gonna f**k you slow."
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Old 08-27-2009, 10:48 AM
 
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Hmm...you say you couldn't successfully google a word. Now I know I've officially become a dinosaur. There are these things--let me make sure I have the terminology right--I believe they're called dictionaries. I'm positive this will be hard to believe, but these dictionaries actually help you look up words! It's true; I swear!

Rest assured, however, that I'm not trying to plant the idea in anyone's head that it's possible to have life without google. I know when a concept is too radical to put forth in a public forum.
"dictionaries' would be of no help looking up the word soot if you thought it was spelled "SUT"
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