tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post740428631451202404..comments2023-09-22T18:24:22.356+01:00Comments on Lexi Revellian: ABNA updateLexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-68202081018477602172008-01-20T10:55:00.000+00:002008-01-20T10:55:00.000+00:00All is now as crystal for this simple Britisher.Th...All is now as crystal for this simple Britisher.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the elucidation, Norm.Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-83975911815940379322008-01-19T21:10:00.000+00:002008-01-19T21:10:00.000+00:00The comment may lose some of its lyricism if parse...The comment may lose some of its lyricism if parsed but here goes:<BR/><BR/>Apologies [<I>acknowledging and expressing regret or asking pardons for a fault or offense</I>] for the preemption [<I>to appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others</I>] of your blog [<I>a web based log of thoughts, ideas, and opinions</I>] Lexi [<I>author of said web based log of thoughts, ideas, and opinions</I>].<BR/><BR/>Yay [<I>an exclamation of pleasure, approval, elation</I>] Plum [<I>a shortening of Alan’s online nom de plume</I>]! Get that sheepskin [<I>Informal- A diploma. Presumably derived from diplomas being printed upon vellum-- A fine parchment made from calfskin, lambskin, or kidskin</I>]. Whoop [<I>A loud cry of exultation or excitement</I>], whoop [<I>A repeat of the loud cry of exultation or excitement</I>], whoop [<I>A third utterance of said loud cry of exultation or excitement for the simple heck of it</I>].<BR/><BR/>I hope this clears things up.Timberatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09017106606021535783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-39416359023408554912008-01-19T11:30:00.000+00:002008-01-19T11:30:00.000+00:00Alan, I've just read your blog, and thoroughly enj...Alan, I've just read your blog, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm really looking forward to hearing all the details of your being back at college thirty years on.<BR/><BR/>And I love your aphorism; "Any enterprise which does not cause the digestive system to rebel and the mental apparatus to look at itself with no little apprehension is hardly worth undertaking."<BR/><BR/>But...I still have <I>no idea</I> what Norm's talking about.Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-78670384854436897372008-01-19T10:49:00.000+00:002008-01-19T10:49:00.000+00:00Gnomic is the word.I'm off to Alan's blog - I mean...Gnomic is the word.<BR/><BR/>I'm off to Alan's blog - I mean online journal - to look for an explanation.Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-6151889394656079602008-01-19T03:03:00.000+00:002008-01-19T03:03:00.000+00:00Apologies for the preemption of your blog Lexi. Ya...Apologies for the preemption of your blog Lexi. <BR/><BR/>Yay Plum! Get that sheepskin. Whoop, whoop, whoop.Timberatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09017106606021535783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-43851417084600688812008-01-18T13:23:00.000+00:002008-01-18T13:23:00.000+00:00Thanks Nik.I was just unlucky in the reviewer I wa...Thanks Nik.<BR/><BR/>I was just unlucky in the reviewer I was assigned. Difficult to see how else Amazon could have winnowed the entries; but luck played too large a part.Lexihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404818053292364819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250078125607062288.post-80230378456184250722008-01-18T13:09:00.000+00:002008-01-18T13:09:00.000+00:00Hard luck, Lexi. Still, I think you've done brilli...Hard luck, Lexi. Still, I think you've done brilliantly to get as far as you did. Not many others did.<BR/><BR/>Onwards and upwards. And what a lovely way to find out.<BR/><BR/>Nik.Nik Perringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07426321804560400335noreply@blogger.com