Like when my daughters start to tell me stuff that's happened in a Scooby-doo episode - I feel my eyes glazing over and start losing the will to live :-)

>It drives my daughter nuts. She will typically respond with something along the lines of: 'Geesh Mom, nobody cares!!!' Yet you can imagine the ridiculous comments I have to listen to when my 15 year old daughter is intent on expressing her latest outrage about something that happened at school... :o)
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>>You'd like my mother. She retains stuff like that too. ;)
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>>>Probably no need to be so specific - you are correct. It is a conjunction, but is specifically a 'coordinating conjunction' versus a subordinating conjunction (because, although, while, ...) or a correlative conjunction (both...and, not only...but also, either...or,...)
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