To His Honorable "Thingee" Writer: (and yes, "thingee" did bug me the first few posts I read after I joined the list; unfortunately I hardly notice anymore, unlike posts like the one quoted below) After this masterpiece I am reminded of my disappointment that you did not make DC. I had hoped to see what kind of character this Jim Bryant was. Jeannie might have found the booth if both Ron AND Jim were there. You better make it to Reno, or we will build a trebechut and fire off a volley of old Northern Naugahyde thingees to south Florida. (Might even help get the current rereconstructionist Supreme Court straightened out.) Or we might set up a booth at the Redneck Convention where we will be within firing range. Unfortunately I ain't got no trebechut thingee built yet, almost as undeveloped as my soundboard press - now THAT is a REAL thingee. Your Honorable Thingee Writer, quite a piece of apologetics. I will now return the use of the broad and meaningful expression "thingee" to you. Bill Shull, RPT In a message dated 7/22/00 10:51:08 AM Pacific Daylight Time, JIMRPT@AOL.COM writes: << In a message dated 7/22/2000 12:02:25 PM, Dave wrote: <<"Vocabulary is very important in this world, not just to me, to everyone.">> Yep, words mean things and they should not be tossed around as mere doohickeys. <<"We all tend to take more seriously someone who says (for example) "haven't got any" than we do someone who says "ain't got no".">> Well there is a grammatical faux pas here somewhere in both of the quotes, happens I ain't smart enough to figger out the first un but the second one should be "ain't gots no". <<"The use of non-words like "thingee" in an otherwise technical discussion totally destroys the credibility of anything else the writer has to say.">> Well as an offender, in the use of "thingee", I suppose that I shall have to settle for being ofensive until my technical and grammatical syntax and grasp of proper structure have risen to the level of lexicographical perfection. Having said dat I might, in my defense, add that I surely thinks dat de use of "thingee" adds just as much to the technical content and credibility of posts as do the like of "When does Nauga season open this year?", for example. Hmmph! any danged fool knows dat the Nauga was extincted shortly after the Late Great Unpleasantness by dem damn Yankee scallywag Carpetbaggers after de last, and theretofore, lost colony of Nauga were discovered twixt the Battle of Lookout Mountain....................(Which by the way the Yankees only won cause they got scared and ran away in the wrong direction!!!!!) Ain't been no danged Naguas since 18 en 78. The last Nagua skins was used up by that Varmint Wurlitzer during the 19 en 50's and 60's. Well Dave, enjoyed the conversation but I "haven't got any" holes in this new pinblock doohickey for the new pin tuner thingees, or the fat threaded thingamajiggers, so I gots to go......y'all come back ya heah? :-) Jim Bryant (FL) >>
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