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From: "John R. Rose" <rose@CS*.Sc*.ED*>
Subject: Re: Square lights and things that go bump in the night...
To: jesse.armantrout@de*.co* (jesse armantrout)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 16:06:37 -0400 (EDT)
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     gulfnet!CS.Sc.EDU!rose@wa*.mo*.gu*.ne*,
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My buddy Trout sez:

>      Prodigious.  Wow, professor, that's a purty fancy word.  Another 
>      adjective you could have used is "zumerickous", e.g. "his air 
>      consumption is zumrickous" and we would have all known what that 
>      meant.

Jess,

I intentionally chose a nonpejorative word. If one's air consumption is
prodigious, then you really don't need any other strikes against you.

-John R.

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