>>>>I actually am surprised. Even his detractors generally agree he could be extremely generous with his time and knowledge ( though they would include that was to feed his own ego more than through eleemosynary urges :-) )
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>>>>I am never surprised when somebody doesn't like John, but I have seen him in a lot of venues and even though I have sometimes been on the sharp end of his ego I always found him entertaining.
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>>>eleemosynary!? Where the kinell did you dig THAT word up from?
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>>>I won't say I floccinaucinihilipilificate myself for not knowing that!
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>>Normally I abjure and eschew fustian or obscurantist sesquipedalian lexiphanicism, but in this case it just bubbled out like methane.
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>You've been thesaurusing those all afternoon just for a come-back, haven't you! :-)
I'm embarrassed to say sometimes I actually talk like that <g>
I really did use eleemosynary without thinking about it and I still chuckle remembering how I hooted and cheered when Bill Buckley used sesquipedalianism and lexiphanic in the same sentence.
Of course if I ever want to write any of those words (or for that matter pretty much any word with more than four letters) I have to look up the spelling <s>
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- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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