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Topic: Knit Motorcycle Cozy sculpture
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12 12:09PM -0500
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http://www.etsy.com/listing/91053128/knit-motorcycle-cozy-sculpture-by?ref=af_circ_favitem

$13,000 for knitting cozies and applying them to a bike. I think I
will stop knitting
socks and hats and start making sculptures!

Shelley

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Topic: The Queen of Cups - Water of Water
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12 10:35AM -0500
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Queen of Cups

Within the Suit of Cups, the card associated with PISCES is the Queen
(sometimes also referred to as the Queen of the Thrones of the
Waters). This card belongs to the Court Cards of the Tarot and is
known to be The Feeler or The Sensate One. It is the watery quality of
water, typifiying this element's passive, reflective and receptive
quality, illustrated by the fact that the figure of the Queen is
almost invisible as she is enveloped by shadowy reflections. This card
is indicative of a dreamy and romantic personality...one who gives
free rein to emotions. In short, the Queen of Cups embodies the Mother
Spirit. The individual represented by this card will be a reflection
of others, lending an illusion of dreaminess and tranquility. The
Queen of Cups gives and receives all without being emotionally
affected. As such, she represents the pinnacle of emotional maturity
and balance...she nourishes the needy. This card emphasizes the need
of individuals to open up and allow true feelings to show through.
Although there may be those who do not understand, there should be
committment and sharing with those who do. The Queen of Cups speaks of
emotional balance where both lust and love are necessary. However,
they should be balanced...the instinct of harmony with the
transcendent. Of all the cards within the Suit of Cups, it is the
Queen which is most concerned with human emotions and the fickleness
which often accompanies such characteristics. The Queens of the Tarot
represent not only women but anyone...male or female...who has reached
a level of growth and maturity on both the spiritual and material
paths. Queens are representative of power, authority, fulfillment and
competency. They are the highest of the Court Cards having attained
the loftiest of qualities symbolized within the Major Aracana. Each
Queen is depicted seated upon a throne which bears the emblem of her
respective Suit.

The hidden nature of the figure depicted on this card is symbolic of
the inability to understand on an intellectual level what can only be
felt. The lotus blossom represents a loving and compassionate
disposition...altruistic love...and the two lotuses themselves
represent emotional balance. The blue light is the light of
enlightenment...a light of emotional transformation...while the depth
of the water is indicative of emotional maturity, as well as the
depths of human emotions. The reflective nature of the Queen
represents awareness, honesty and an openness of emotions. The stork
is indicative of fertility while the shell cup contains Cancer...the
crab which is a symbol of domesticity.

In a Tarot reading, this card indicates an individual who is easily
influenced by others...one who is dreamy, imaginative and
affectionate. This will be a person who experiences emotions on a deep
level while allowing others to feel their own. It suggests tenderness
and artistic ability. It may also be representative of a woman in
love.

Reversed, it indicates frustration in love or romance...a suggestion
that emotions are exaggerated and superficial. It may also be
representative of an individual caught up in romance and seduction. In
classical mythology and lore, the Queen of Cups is associated with
Helen of Troy, wife of the Spartan King, Melelaus, and sister to
Castor and Pollux (the twins of Gemini). Credited with being the most
beautiful woman in the Ancient World, Helen was the cause of the
Trojan War.

Much of the tarot information found on this page is taken from "The
Royal Road," a manual authored by Lady Shyra and used with permission
provided such credit is given.

All featured tarot card designs are from "The Book of Thoth" deck
designed by Aleister Crowley and painted by Lady Frieda Harris.

http://www.novareinna.com/constellation/cups.html

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Topic: Fairy Tarot - Queen of Hearts (Cups)
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12 10:33AM -0500
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Queen of Hearts

http://taroteca.multiply.com/photos/album/227/Folletti#121

The figure that we see in this card is immediately likeable. In fact
the aspect of the Queen is regal in terms of her clothing but her
expression is kind-hearted and sweet. One can imagine her great
sensitivity and her generous goodness.

This Queen of the Fairies wears a magnificent dress of pale lilac,
decorated around the hem with little hearts, while on her back she
caries a long red cape. She has long wavy hair, and is standing on a
green carpet. On her head she wears a precious gem-studded crown and
she holds a sceptre in her hands, the point adorned with a read heart.

The small hearts on her clothing, the heart on the sceptre and the
suit of Hearts all allude to the element of Water and therefore to
love, the emotions and sentiments.

In the Tarot of the Fairies this Queen is the symbol of kindness, of
spiritual sensitivity. Furthermore it indicates a loyal and good
friend; the same Fairy that they consult.

If you have extracted this card, consider it to be positive, as it
refers to a person who is a friend and who is sincere; a mother, a
woman who will suffer more for others than for herself, who is happy
or unhappy depending on the moods of those around her. If you are a
woman and are verifying your own response, it can also indicate
yourself.

Card Upright: An intelligent woman, honest; a woman who will sacrifice
herself for love; a friend who protects you.

Reversed: A treacherous woman, to be feared; a trap from a female; a
rival in love.

The Fairy Tarot

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Topic: Angel Paths for February `12 - Queen of Cups
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12 10:30AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/6ff136aa6c874f6e

The Queen of Cups

If the Queen of Cups appears in a reading to indicate a woman, she
will be a gentle and tranquil woman, romantic by nature, generous with
her tenderness. She will be something of a day-dreamer - perhaps a bit
unrealistic, but creative and hopeful.

She is often involved in creative or literary pursuits, and enjoys
art, good music, literature and things of beauty. She is unstinting in
her readiness to nurture others, sometimes to her own detriment. She's
often connected with motherhood, and mothering.

She is often intuitive, and psychic. Her foremost ability in this area
is a talent for simply absorbing energies around her and reflecting
them back, unchanged. In this aspect she can often be a revealer for
those around her.

If she is badly aspected, however, another aspect of her personality
shows through. The gentleness and tranquillity convert to weakness and
unspoken resentment. She nurtures for the sake of inducing dependancy,
and places undue importance on being in a relationship, no matter what
its quality. She will believe herself unable to stand alone.

Her reflective quality backfires so that she begins to take on the
attitudes and thoughts of others. When this happens she begins to show
signs of feeling victimised. She might present to the world with a
poor-little-me attitude.

When the card comes up to indicate a change in some-one's response, we
see the woman in love - entering into the deepest and most emotional
realms of her personality, and returning refreshed and invigorated.

Sometimes the card will come up to indicate a woman acting as
priestess of the Goddess.

Working with the Queen of Cups

This Queen rules the realms of love and beauty - both mundane and
spiritual. She indicates the inner reflective quality which allows us
to relate to the imaginal and dreaming qualities each of us has -
though all too often rarely uses.

So on a day which is ruled by her, it is to these areas we must turn.
This is a time to reflect about love, and to seek out beauty. But
since this card is an inward looking one, in many respects, we need to
look at ourselves more than we look outside.

Seek out the lovely, loving things in you. Search for your own beauty.
Try to identify the things in yourself that you are glad to have as a
part of you. Find things about yourself which are beautiful.

One important aspect of the Queen of Cups is her ability to let us
reach inside and see things from a different perspective. She gives us
permission to be in love with and satisfied by ourselves.

And when we do feel like this about ourselves, we shine a little
brighter in the rest of the world. So everybody wins!!

Affirmation: I am a radiant loveable being.

http://www.angelpaths.com/cups/cupsqu2.html

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Topic: Card of the Day for February 12 - Queen of Cups
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12 10:29AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/40d89856d0f41138

QUEEN OF CUPS

Attribution - Gemini-Cancer cusp (20 degrees Gemini to 20 degrees Cancer)

Cups is the suit of emotion, inner states, feelings, relationships,
memories, spiritual experiences. This suit talks about friendship,
family, love and happiness.

The cup is the container of something sacred. It is the suit of
artists, musicians, creativity, healing, imagination. In it's negative
form it can represent anger, resentment, misunderstandings, hurt,
pain, rejection, disputes, divorce, conflict, inconsiderate behaviour.

Queens stand for both women who are actual people in your life and for
different aspects of your personality. They are mother figures and
mature women with personal power. Queens demonstrate creativity, love
of nature, caring, fondness for children.

Possible Careers – caretaker, nurse, home-care worker, artist, writer.

Rider-Waite Imagery

The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)

Beautiful, fair, dreamy–as one who sees visions in a cup. This is,
however, only one of her aspects; she sees, but she also acts, and her
activity feeds her dream.

Divinatory Meanings

Upright: Good, fair woman; honest, devoted woman, who will do service
to the Querent; loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision;
success, happiness, pleasure; also wisdom, virtue; a perfect spouse
and a good mother.

Reversed: The accounts vary; good woman; otherwise, distinguished
woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonour,
depravity.

Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana

Queen: Sometimes denotes a woman of equivocal character. Reversed: A
rich marriage for a man and a distinguished one for a woman.

UPRIGHT

Counsellor.

Comprehension, listening, empathy.

Delicate soul.

Mother.

Woman whose life revolves around home and family.

A good cook, an immaculate home, a tidy garden.

Unconditional love.

Honest, gentle, warm, nurturing, creative intuition.

A mysterious nature.

In touch with your emotions.

Love and marriage.

Generous, helpful, encouraging.

Sensitive, creative.

Lover of art and poetry.

Mediumistic, dreamy, empathic.

Ability to realize intentions.

Give some extra TLC.

REVERSED

Women who love too much.

Excessive dependence.

Jealousy, resentment, accusations, tantrums, hurt feelings.

A miserable mother-in-law.

Overworked imagination.

Secretive nature.

Self-deceptive personality.

Reacting instead of acting.

Emotional needs that are not being met.

Emotions clouding judgement.

Untrustworthy and fickle.

Feels victimized.

Self-indulgent.

Prone to vice.

Insensitive to others needs.

Unspoken resentment.

Escapism.

Emotional neglect.

Unreliable person.

Immorality.

Opportunism.

May be sad and grieving for lost spouse; a widow or unwilling divorcee.

The personality of the Queen of Cups combines the positive water
energy of the Cups suit with the inward focus of a Queen. Because she
has a sweet, loving and sensitive nature, the Queen of Cups has a kind
word for everyone and never reacts with anger or impatience. There is
a gentleness about her that soothes and calms. Compassion is her
watchword. Her reactions to the world are guided by her feelings. In
all matters, she lets her heart lead the way. She senses emotional
currents and knows what others are experiencing without having to ask.
She is never moody, but understands moods and their influence. She
trusts her intuition and so is more open to knowledge that comes from
within herself and beyond. She is often moved by the beauty and
tragedy of life. The Queen of Cups feels deeply and has a reverence
for all aspects of God's creation. Her love includes and embraces
everyone and everything.

In readings, the Queen of Cups asks you to think and feel as she does.
For example: Are you aware of the emotional climate? Are you feeling
loving? Do you trust your heart? Have you received an intuitive
message? Have you been moved by another's pain?

This Queen can also represent a man or woman who is like her, or an
atmosphere of gentle love, acceptance and respect for feelings. In a
reading, she tells you that her special energy has meaning for you at
this time. Let yourself be inspired by this Queen in whatever form she
appears in your life.

(Interpretation from Joan Bunning)

1. Haindl

2. Master

3. Durer

4. Wheel of Change

5. Animal Lords

6. Gill

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Topic: A Phrase A Week - Butterfingers
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12 10:24AM -0500
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Butterfingers

Meaning

A name playfully applied to someone who fails to catch a ball or lets
something slip from their fingers.

Origin

Charles Dickens - butterfingers In the week of the bicentenary of
Charles Dickens' birth (7th February 1812), I thought it would be nice
to include a phrase coined by him. It ought not to be too difficult to
find one, after all, Dickens ranks sixth on the 'number of English
words coined by an individual author' list. Passing over contenders
like 'slow-coach' and 'cloak and dagger' I alighted on
'butterfingers', which several authorities say was invented by
Dickens. Not quite a phrase but, as it was coined as the hyphenated
'butter-fingers', it's close enough. Dickens used the term in The
Pickwick Papers (more properly calledThe Posthumous Papers of the
Pickwick Club), 1836:

At every bad attempt at a catch, and every failure to stop the ball,
he launched his personal displeasure at the head of the devoted
individual in such denunciations as 'Ah, ah! - stupid' - 'Now,
butter-fingers' - 'Muff' - 'Humbug' - and so forth.

It seemed as though that was all there was to say about the
word/phrase but, as I usually like to add a little more, I delved
further. The British Library's excellent new database of 19th century
newspapers turned up a reference to 'butter-fingers' in the Yorkshire
newspaperThe Leeds Intelligencer dated May 1823. Pre-Pickwick,
clearly. Looking closer, it appeared that the writer was quoting from
what he called 'a scarce book' - The English Housewife. Delving again,
I found that the book, written by the English writer Gervase Markham
in 1615, scarce as it may have been in 1823, is still available today.
Markham's recipe for a good housewife was:

'First, she must be cleanly in body and garments; she must have a
quick eye, a curious nose, a perfect taste, and ready ear; she must
not be butter-fingered, sweet-toothed, nor faint-hearted - for the
first will let everything fall; the second will consume what it should
increase; and the last will lose time with too much niceness.

Markham's views aren't quite what would be accepted now, any more than
his remedy for the plague - 'smell a nosegay made of the tasselled end
of a ship rope', but he does at least make it clear that
'butterfingers' was in use in 1615 with the same meaning we have for
it today, that is, someone likely to drop things - as if their hands
were smeared with butter, like a cook's.

Many of the later examples of 'butterfingers' in print relate to the
game of cricket, which was and still is the principal ball-catching
game in England. The term is often used as an amiable taunt when
someone fails to make an easy catch. As the word spread to other
countries, notably America, it was taken into the language of the
local catching game, ie baseball, and 'no-hoper' teams were unkindly
given that name. The Salt Lake Tribune reported on such a team in May
1899:

'The Butterfingers will cross bats with the Salt Lake Juniors at
Calder's Park Tuesday'.

As for Dickens, he may have missed out on 'butterfingers' but he has
many other words and phrases to lay claim to, and he did write some
exceedingly good books.

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Topic: Sunday February 12, 2012: Reference.com On This Day
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12 10:24AM -0500
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On This Day:

Sunday February 12, 2012

This is the 43rd day of the year, with 323 days remaining in 2012.

Fact of the Day: history

It has been explained as if you had 1 through 1 million squares, the
earth's history with humans represents 1 square.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Julian the Hospitaller, St. Ethelwald of Lindisfarne,
St. Antony Kauleas, St. Marina or Pelagia, St. Meletius, and St.
Ludan.

Myanmar: Union Day.

Events

1709 - Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish seaman whose adventures
inspired the story of "Robinson Crusoe," was taken off Juan Fernandez
Island after four years of being marooned.

1793 - Congress passed the first fugitive slave law, requiring all
states, including those that forbad slavery, to forcibly return slaves
who had escaped from other states to their original owners.

1818 - Chile gained independence from Spain.

1892 - President Abraham Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday.

1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) was founded.

1912 - Hsüan-T'ung (Pu Yi), the last emperor of China, was forced to
abdicate following Sun Yat-sen's republican revolution; he was six
years old. China became a republic following the overthrow of the
Manchu Dynasty.

1924 - George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered in New York.

1973 - The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam
War took place.

1999 - The US Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton, after the
five-week impeachment trial, on both articles of impeachment, perjury
and obstruction of justice.

2004 - Mattel announced the split of Barbie and Ken.

2006 - The second Sydney Body Art Ride breaks a world record for the
largest group of painted people, and raised more than $10,000 for
Children's Cancer Institute of Australia.

Births

1567 - Thomas Campion, English composer and poet.

1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America.

1809 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist, theorist of evolution.

1880 - John L. Lewis, US labor leader, United Mine Workers of America.

1904 - Ted Mack (William McGuiness), American TV host.

1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director.

1934 - Bill Russell, American basketball Hall of Famer.

1952 - Michael McDonald, American musician, known for his trademark
husky baritone voice.

1970 - Jim Creeggan, Canadian bassist.

1974 - Toranosuke Takagi, Japanese race car driver.

Deaths

1789 - Ethan Allen, an early American revolutionary and guerrilla
leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampshire
Grants.

1971 - James C. Penney, American department store founder.

2000 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip.

2000 - Tom Landry, Hall of Fame football coach who led the Dallas
Cowboys to five Super Bowls.

2005 - Sammi Smith (born Jewel Fay Smith), a country music singer and
songwriter, born in Orange County, California.

Reference.com On This Day

http://www.reference.com/thisday/

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Topic: AWADmail Issue 502
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From: msesheta <msesheta@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 12 10:21AM -0500
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/opentarotnexus/msg/ddafaba07615832f

Wordsmith.org The Magic of Words

Feb 12, 2012

This week's theme

Words to describe people

This week's words

wastrel

lummox

dilettante

roue

poseur

AWADmail archives

Index

Next week's theme

Words coined after gods and goddesses

AWADmail Issue 502

A Compendium of Feedback on the Words in A.Word.A.Day and Other
Tidbits about Words and Language

This week's Email of the Week is from Georgia Morehouse (see below),
who will get to choose an Uppityshirt, and there's a heck of a
selection.

From: Michael Tremberth (michaelt4two googlemail.com)

Subject: wastrel

Def: A good-for-nothing, wasteful person.

A useful word, concise and immediately self-explanatory, unlike its
synonym, losel. The Latin word from which wastrel is derived also gave
rise to the adjective "vastatrix", contained in the name of the vine
louse Phylloxera vastatrix, the cause of the disease that devastated
innumerable French vineyards in the 19th century and was responsible
indirectly for giving the New World an entry into the international
wine market: North American vines were immune to the disease.

Michael Tremberth, Cornwall, UK

From: James Danly (jcdanly aol.com)

Subject: Lummox

Def: A clumsy, stupid person.

Lummox is John Thomas's pet in Heinlein's The Star Beast. Smuggled to
earth as a baby, Lummox still speaks with a lisp but is now big as a
house. One of the more delightful aliens of my acquaintance.

James Danly, Nashville, Tennessee

From: Petronella JC Elema (elema055 planet.nl)

Subject: Lummox

This word always reminds me of the folk song Sweet Betsy from Pike!
The concluding verse is:

This Pike County couple got married, of course,

But Ike became jealous, and obtained a divorce.

Betsy, well-satisfied, said with a shout,

"Goodbye, you big lummox, I'm glad you backed out!"

Petronella JC Elema, Groningen, The Netherlands

Email of the Week - (Brought to you by One Up! - Are you wicked/smart?)

From: Georgia Morehouse (gmoreho mchsi.com)

Subject: lummox

Well, now, this word hit me where I live! My mother often called me a
"clumsy lummox". Had I had as much sass in me then as I have now, I
would have told her she was being redundant, but that probably would
have earned me a thumping of some sort. It's funny how a single word
can transport you to a whole other place!

Georgia Morehouse, Columbia, Missouri

From: Andrew Pressburger (andpress sympatico.ca)

Subject: Dilettante

Def: noun: One who takes up an activity or interest in a superficial
or casual way; adjective: Superficial; amateurish.

Time was, and not so long ago at that, when athletes were required to
take an amateur oath before competing in the Olympic Games.
Professionalism was frowned upon, the word evoking condescension, not
to say condemnation.

While today 'amateur' designates one not making a living from his
hobby (yet doing it with zest), dilettante has become a term of
derision, especially when compared to the proficiency of the
professional. In Monty Python's memorable vignette the pro pugilist
Muhammad Ali, recently capped and gowned by the University of Oxford,
delivers a roundhouse punch to the amateur boxer Lord Kenneth Clark,
writer, historian, philosopher.

A well-aimed uppercut will ineluctably trump Civilization.

Andrew Pressburger, Toronto, Canada

From: Frazer Dixon (fdixon fdixon.com)

Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--dilettante

I'm a little concerned that you have been discussing my behavourial
traits with my wife. All of the words so far this week have described
my various qualities a little too well for my liking!

I hope that tomorrow's word is something along the lines of gregarious
or perspicacious.

As always I'm enjoying the word of the day email every day, and my
thanks for the daily break from work.

Frazer Dixon, Surrey, UK

From: Nora Francis (narf shaw.ca)

Subject: dilettante

As a 75-year-old dinosaur who still uses the middle of the last
century as reference for social and business conventions, I offer the
tale of my personal "business cards".

A few years ago I got fed up with the way "that generation" pass out
their personal cards. It's a good idea but what I saw were all these
insecure self-absorbed little bunnies using them to say "I'm Important
and you are expected to remember that!"

So I had some printed for myself. Nice little conservative engraved
numbers -- mailing address lower right, phone number lower left. In
the centre, under my name, it says "Dilettante".

I keep forgetting that I have them but once in a long while I am moved
to pull one out of my wallet. A couple of times I've had someone look
at me blankly and ask "What's a dile-tent? A dilly-tant? What do you
do?" whereupon I hope to remember to explain that "a dilettante is
someone who knows a little bit about a lot of things and not much
about anything." Like myself, they're getting a little worn looking
after all that time in my wallet, not up to the spanking clean ones
with gilt and colour The Important People use, and most of the time
mine get left on the table with the gravy stain... but like many of
these things in our brave new world I'm learning to view their
function as being designed to give ME a smile, me me me me me, and to
heck with anyone else.

Nora Francis, Vancouver, Canada

From: Margaret Love (Mllove2000 aol.com)

Subject: Roue

Def: A debauched man, especially an elderly man from a wealthy or
aristocratic family.

Ah, this one I recognized from the song Sixteen Going on Seventeen
from Sound of Music. I saw the movie when I was nine years old, bought
the soundtrack album and promptly memorized every word of every song
while re-enacting key scenes in the living room. I have always thought
that "roue" was a synonym for "cad", but now I know that a roue is a
creepy old man while a cad is a creepy young one!

Margaret Love, Greenville, South Carolina

From: Thomas Benzoni (benzonit pol.net)

Subject: Re: A.Word.A.Day--dilettante

There is controversy about the Gandhi quotation. See here.

Tom Benzoni, Sioux city, Iowa

From: Hope Bucher (hopebucher gmail.com)

Subject: Charles Dickens's quotation about cheerfulness and
contentment preserving youthful looks

On a trip to a National Park my brother handed the female guard his
license and she noticed that he did not qualify for a Senior Pass. I
quickly gave her my driver's license which showed that I was 69. The
guard, in disbelief, said "You don't look 69, what do you do?" to
which I replied, naively, "I am a scientist and an artist". "No", she
demanded "What do you do to look the way you do? What are your
secrets?" I answered "I have a happy marriage and I'm very content
with my life." Now, thanks to AWAD, I have the affirmation of Charles
Dickens to support my analysis: "Cheerfulness and contentment are
great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks".

Hope Bucher, Naperville, Illinois

From: Chris McLeester (cmcleester gmail.com)

Subject: Quotation not from Samuel Johnson

See here.

Chris McLeester, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

From: Margaret Teusch (maggimay@inbox.com)

Subject: Poseur

Def: One who behaves in an affected manner to impress others.

Is 'poseur' what affected people say to impress others when they call
them 'posers'?

Margaret Teusch, Provo, Utah

From: John Ayer (john_ayer comcast.net)

Subject: names of writers (Re AWADmail 500)

In reference to Samuel Butler and Samuel Butler, and the suggestion
that no two writers should have the same name, Winston Churchill,
grandson of the Duke of Marlborough, became a published author, and
learned that an American novelist named Winston Churchill had become
rich and famous (in America), and according to legend wrote to him and
suggested that the other man should write under a different name, to
avoid confusion. The American wrote back to agree that they should not
both publish under the same name, and as he had been using the name
three years longer (born in 1871 vs. 1874), the younger man should
change. Thereafter the younger man signed his works as Winston S.
Churchill (the American had only two names).

John Ayer, Norwich, Connecticut

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

You can never understand one language until you understand at least
two. - Ronald Searle, artist (b. 1920)

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