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
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> 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 canıt have that weıd 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 weıll 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.
>>
>> Itıs possible that this word has created more column inches of
>> speculation in
>> the USA than any other apart from OK. Itıs 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 programitıs very much a Right Stuff kind of
>> word. But
>> even in the USA it doesnıt 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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