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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #30 on: October 05, 2005, 12:13:31 PM »
 foil ??
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2005, 12:52:41 PM »
   foil  n.

1. A thin, flexible leaf or sheet of metal: aluminum foil.
2. A thin layer of polished metal placed under a displayed gem to lend it brilliance.
3. One that by contrast underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another[/b]:
   “I am resolved my husband shall not be a rival, but a foil to me” (Charlotte Brontė).
4. The reflective metal coating on the back of a glass mirror.
5. Architecture. A curvilinear, often lobelike figure or space formed between the cusps of intersecting arcs,      found especially in Gothic tracery and Moorish ornament.
6. An airfoil.
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2005, 02:17:36 PM »
Ah!  You forgot one of my favorites Joe.

7. A thin piercing blade wielded by fencers.
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #33 on: October 07, 2005, 02:31:08 PM »
Quote from: PFC joe on October 05, 2005, 12:52:41 PM
   foil  n.

3. One that by contrast underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another[/b]:
   “I am resolved my husband shall not be a rival, but a foil to me” (Charlotte Brontė).

Thanks - I think.  If not, then THPTHPthpthhhpthpthptptpthp!  ;)
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #34 on: October 08, 2005, 12:26:20 AM »
lol

i think that proves my point.

or a point.

or something.
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Re: Good to be home
« Reply #35 on: October 09, 2005, 07:38:33 PM »
Ah, you're rapier wit never ceases to make me chuckle, Joe.  You are, without doubt, the man.
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If sing, sang, and sung, sink, sank, and sunk, and drink, drank, and drunk, how is it that it isn't bring, brang, and brung, think, thank and thunk, and ding, dang, and dung?

Don't even get me started about bad, badder and baddest.  Run, ran AND run...again?  C'mon!
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