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<title>norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2005/01/04/venery</title>
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<title>Comment 1 on /2005/01/04/venery</title>
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<published>2005-01-13T18:13:38Z</published>
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  <name>Jeff Schiller</name>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>I like "a vanity of blogs".  How about "a partition of Operating Systems"?</p></div></content>
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<title>Comment 2 on /2005/01/04/venery</title>
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<published>2005-02-11T19:46:39Z</published>
<updated>2005-02-11T19:46:39Z</updated>
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  <name>Anthony B. Coates</name>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>If you like this kind of thing, you should also try the "Superior Person's Little Book of Words" (now in 3 editions) by Peter Bowler (see interview at

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/stories/s1042360.htm

).  What I can't find on the Web is a reference to his other book "The Annotated Onamasticon".  You can find the meaning of "onamasticon" in the aforementioned "Superior Person's Little Book of Words"; it is an ordered list of names, and the book is a list of 1000 strange but true names from the birth records.  Since you can't read my copy, the ones that I remember most are "Mary Ann Ciancianci" (say it) and "North Shore Sydney Bridge".  Seriously ...</p></div></content>
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<title>Comment 3 on /2005/01/04/venery</title>
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<published>2005-02-24T23:17:38Z</published>
<updated>2005-02-24T23:17:38Z</updated>
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  <name>John Cowan</name>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>If whole books in italics didn't bother Aldus Manutius, they shouldn't bother you either.  Get used to it.</p></div></content>
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<title>Comment 4 on /2005/01/04/venery</title>
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<published>2006-08-15T05:37:49Z</published>
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  <name>Jon &amp; Betsie Bolger Mott</name>
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<content type='xhtml'><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>&#8230;a spritz of hairdressers; a titter of drag queens; a gallop of horses; a whiff of anti-perspirants; an amplification of steros; a volume of boomboxes; a deliberation of judges; a felony of crooks; a gallop of horses; a leap of show-jumpers; a solefull of shoes; an enterprise of [Star] Trekkies; a babble of talk shows; a collaboration of couples; a quick-step of dancers; a dazzle of celebrities; a percentage of agents; a foreplay of golfers; a sandtrap of duffers; a prose of editors; a text of typographers; a misprint of typesetters; a binary of computers; an inspiration of modern venery terms&#8230;*
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*FYI, y'all: My husband &amp; I came up with the first two terms several years ago after  my husband's serendipitous sighting of a hair-school graduation; however, the rest of this list was created live, in real time, during the typing [keyboarding?] of this comment.**
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**We cannot be sure that each &amp; every aforementioned venereal term is entirely original, but we hope that at least they will give all of you some occasion for amusement, as all of them certainly continue to do for us~{{;&gt;}~!!!</p></div></content>
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