Good thing you're barking cheerily instead of the
other way. If you're going to call me Mr. Hal,
your tail had better be awagging.
Hal
"We are the zanies of sorrow."
--Oscar Wilde
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On Dec 4, 2006, at 10:06 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Mind you, Mr. Hal, a good ol' dog, by better definition, I gather,
> if not
> kneel is:
> Copawcetic.
>
> But, mind you, as well, it was a famous dog who lamented,
> "They flea for me."
>
> With that, not willing to take anything lying down, this remains,
> still barking, cheerily:
>
> Stephen V
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>
>
>> Nice word--"copacetic." It may still have some
>> life in it, sort of like an old dog that can barely
>> walk, but will, if you kneel down and offer it
>> your nose, give you a big, sloppy lick.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
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>> On Dec 3, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Max Richards wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>
>>>> Sonnet: Best Possible Light
>>>>
>>>> Intelligent controllers agree that telecentric approaches
>>>> to the early Beethoven sonatas yield more pleasure
>>>> than twelve-course banquets ever did. When the best
>>>>
>>>> of friends sit down to simple meals of lab-bound pathogens,
>>>> exciting opportunities knock on every locked and bolted
>>>> door. The cooler atoms allow themselves to be captured.
>>>>
>>>> And if we can’t have that we’d have to wonder why. Or, if
>>>> not, why neighborly persiflage now fails to mend fences?
>>>> As always, conveniences morph into necessities among
>>>>
>>>> those who know better than let hotheads prevail. Dance-
>>>> like melodies from the oboe answered by superheated
>>>> rising fourths from the violins. And yet? No exit strategy
>>>>
>>>> will compensate for those stupid missteps at the outset.
>>>> So we’ll soldier on until, one fine day, all is copacetic.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hal
>>>
>>> Oh , Hal, always a tingle or several reading your sonnets.
>>>
>>> But copacetic?!
>>>
>>> First up on Google is:
>>>
>>> WeirdWords
>>>
>>> COPACETIC
>>> Fine, excellent, going just right.
>>>
>>> It’s possible that this word has created more column inches of
>>> speculation in
>>> the USA than any other apart from OK. It’s rare to the point of
>>> invisibility
>>> outside North America. People mostly become aware of it in the
>>> sixties as a
>>> result of the US space program—it’s very much a Right Stuff kind of
>>> word. But
>>> even in the USA it doesn’t have the circulation it did thirty years
>>> ago.
>>> Dictionaries are cautious about attributing a source for it,
>>> reasonably so, as
>>> there are at least five competing explanations, with no very good
>>> evidence for
>>> any of them.
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> best from Max
>>>
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