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10-13-2020, 09:10 PM
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what an easy game.
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trumpery
just heard about this word , trumpery, look it up. it means "attractive articles of little or no value"
"showy but worthless"
you can not make this stuff up
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10-13-2020, 09:22 PM
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Synonym
Sort of like "trumped up sh*t".
Makes perfect sense
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Here it is, in a nutshell: Millions of people are
pinning their hopes on a man who has every
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10-13-2020, 10:55 PM
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Another garbage thread.
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10-13-2020, 10:57 PM
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what an easy game.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fast4522
Another garbage thread.
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You do your best at it
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Peace on earth, good will to all
GOD BLESS AMERICA
" I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact"
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10-14-2020, 01:37 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by formula_2002
just heard about this word , trumpery, look it up. it means "attractive articles of little or no value"
"showy but worthless"
you can not make this stuff up
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You must not be very well read if you have only just now learned that word
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10-14-2020, 02:19 PM
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what an easy game.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tor Ekman
You must not be very well read if you have only just now learned that word
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if that is the basis for your handicapping, I would, if it were legal, book all of your bets
also what was the most recent book or other print media you read that contain the word. I would add that to my collection
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Peace on earth, good will to all
GOD BLESS AMERICA
" I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact"
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Last edited by formula_2002; 10-14-2020 at 02:28 PM.
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10-14-2020, 02:23 PM
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what an easy game.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fast4522
Another garbage thread.
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one thing you should take alway from these supreme court hearings is, it possible for intelligent people to disagree without being disagreeable.
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Peace on earth, good will to all
GOD BLESS AMERICA
" I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact"
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10-14-2020, 06:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by formula_2002
also what was the most recent book or other print media you read that contain the word. I would add that to my collection
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If I had to guess, I probably came across that word for the first time at the 8th grade reading level and most certainly by the time I took the SAT in high school . . . maybe you didn't make it that far. I'm assuming that you are over 50, so you really should have been exposed to the word by most any school system in the USA back then, but even on the off-chance that you didn't come across it in your school days, any well-read adult would certainly have come across that word fairly early on as one continues to read and self-educate as an adult.
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10-14-2020, 06:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fast4522
Another garbage thread.
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Weak minds are amused by shinny objects.
Case in point.
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Who does the Racing Form Detective like in this one?
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10-14-2020, 07:01 PM
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what an easy game.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tor Ekman
If I had to guess, I probably came across that word for the first time at the 8th grade reading level and most certainly by the time I took the SAT in high school . . . maybe you didn't make it that far. I'm assuming that you are over 50, so you really should have been exposed to the word by most any school system in the USA back then, but even on the off-chance that you didn't come across it in your school days, any well-read adult would certainly have come across that word fairly early on as one continues to read and self-educate as an adult.
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Pure trumpery.Come on dig through your library and name one book or other printed product with the word. I see that you could go back as far as the fourteen hundreds. Take your time.
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Last edited by formula_2002; 10-14-2020 at 07:12 PM.
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10-14-2020, 07:22 PM
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what an easy game.
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I'll save you some time.
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Peace on earth, good will to all
GOD BLESS AMERICA
" I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact"
Winston Churchill
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10-14-2020, 10:28 PM
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This is fun!
See if you can find some more new words.
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10-14-2020, 10:59 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by formula_2002
just heard about this word , trumpery, look it up. it means "attractive articles of little or no value"
"showy but worthless"
you can not make this stuff up
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According to Merriam-Webster, bidens are:
Hmmm! Attractive but worthless, or a vegetable?
Please wake me for 2024.
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10-14-2020, 11:37 PM
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what an easy game.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clocker
According to Merriam-Webster, bidens are:
Hmmm! Attractive but worthless, or a vegetable?
Please wake me for 2024.
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Useful and functioning. Supporting .good health.
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Peace on earth, good will to all
GOD BLESS AMERICA
" I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact"
Winston Churchill
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10-15-2020, 10:28 AM
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Heed the law of unintended consequences: How embarrassing it must be for you to have inadvertently displayed your limited vocabulary in the course of your inept effort to poke fun at President Trump.
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