[svlug] manners

Cassiel cassiel at dis.org
Sat Jun 30 16:38:05 PDT 2001


At 03:09 PM 6/30/01 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
>begin  Dan Martinez quotation:
>
> > (My curiosity compelled me to punch "psychoceramic" into Google. Now I
> > not only know a new word, but have enough reading to amuse me for the
> > rest of the afternoon. Thanks, Rick!)
>
>Isn't it a lovely word?  Grandiloquentism for "crackpot", of course.

    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis . . . . .  It was once 
used to shut up an entire Large dining hall full of Boy Scouts for the 
remainder of a week  . . . .

                                         Cassiel





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