Comments on: Meme: What Are You Reading? Me: The Dictionary :-( http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/ Baby Boomer guy writing about stuff of interest primarily to boomers, or people who know one. No politics, few rants, attempted humor. Suitably old, mysteriously advanced. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:03:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ By: GoingLikeSixty http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/#comment-5928 GoingLikeSixty Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:12:33 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/#comment-5928 @Gretchen: I have trouble using it in a sentence. My example doesn't really work. Since it's a verb, ...Paris is batten...???? Huh?... Now batten, A-rod... @Gretchen: I have trouble using it in a sentence. My example doesn’t really work. Since it’s a verb, …Paris is batten…???? Huh?… Now batten, A-rod…

]]> By: me again http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/#comment-5921 me again Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:11:41 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/#comment-5921 Yes, but see how you've enlightened us all to the various meanings of "batten." I, for one, picked up on one that is entirely relevant for the day. I think we should campaign to instill it back into the common vernacular: "batten: to be well fed or wealthy at another’s expense" How appropriately political. And with corporate tendencies as well. Yes, but see how you’ve enlightened us all to the various meanings of “batten.” I, for one, picked up on one that is entirely relevant for the day. I think we should campaign to instill it back into the common vernacular:

“batten: to be well fed or wealthy at another’s expense”

How appropriately political. And with corporate tendencies as well.

]]> By: goinglikesixty http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/#comment-5904 goinglikesixty Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:19:25 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/#comment-5904 @Gretchen: I liked to read the encyclopedia. Another favorite was "We" the Charles Lindberg story of crossing the Atlantic. @Gretchen: I liked to read the encyclopedia. Another favorite was “We” the Charles Lindberg story of crossing the Atlantic.

]]> By: Gretchen http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/#comment-5903 Gretchen Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:55:24 +0000 http://goinglikesixty.com/2008/03/13/meme-what-are-you-reading-me-the-dictionary/#comment-5903 I habitually read the dictionary as a child, in addition to a medical dictionary and a one-volume encyclopedia sort of thing called the Lincoln Library of Essential Information. Also, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, where I was bewildered by the section on "different causes for handling the genitals". I was six years old. I thought it said "Gentiles". I habitually read the dictionary as a child, in addition to a medical dictionary and a one-volume encyclopedia sort of thing called the Lincoln Library of Essential Information. Also, Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, where I was bewildered by the section on “different causes for handling the genitals”. I was six years old. I thought it said “Gentiles”.

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