http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my 2003-10-16T22:33:37+00:00 http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my#comment-656 2003-10-16T22:33:37+00:00 2003-10-16T22:33:37+00:00 <p>Well, if by &#8220;grotty&#8221; you mean &#8220;Unpleasant, dirty, nasty, ugly; generally displeasing or disagreeable,&#8221; then I don&#8217;t need to win to look it up&#8230; tell me to call myself something that I&#8217;ll only find in the OED and then I&#8217;ll be impressed ;-)</p> Zeus http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my#comment-653 2003-10-16T20:00:40+00:00 2003-10-16T20:00:40+00:00 <p>But I registered before you posted&#8230; otherwise, of course, I would never have tried to get in on your OED action. <strong>cough</strong></p> bedrick http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my#comment-652 2003-10-16T16:50:40+00:00 2003-10-16T16:50:40+00:00 <p>Plus, the Powell&#8217;s newsletter has cute Fup bits.</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my#comment-651 2003-10-16T10:24:41+00:00 2003-10-16T10:24:41+00:00 <p>You underestimate how lazy I am. And it&#8217;s a weird kind of laziness, too. I&#8217;d rather tweak spam filters for three hours than click a few links to unsubscribe from something. Weird, huh?</p> wonko http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my#comment-650 2003-10-16T09:28:09+00:00 2003-10-16T09:28:09+00:00 <p>Well, if you DO win, look up the word &#8220;grotty&#8221; and call yourself it from me!<br /> <br /> If not, don&#8217;t.<br /> <br /> And, at least at school, I had to look up words like that a fair bit.</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my#comment-649 2003-10-16T08:02:49+00:00 2003-10-16T08:02:49+00:00 <p>But you can unsubscribe after the first one. And they won&#8217;t sell you out.</p> Mithrandir http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my#comment-648 2003-10-15T21:53:33+00:00 2003-10-15T21:53:33+00:00 <p>Ack. Don&#8217;t be like me and enter your email address before reading the not-so-fine print that says &#8220;All entrants will receive special offers from Powells.com — discounts, rebates, signed editions, and more!&#8221;</p> <p> Just what I need. More email. I&#8217;d better win. </p> wonko http://faerye.net/post/oh-my-oh-my-oh-my#comment-647 2003-10-15T21:28:05+00:00 2003-10-15T21:28:05+00:00 <p>Okay, so I threw my name in the hat and I hope I win instead of you. Sorry! ;-)<br /> <br /> I very much enjoy my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, but two volumes just isn&#8217;t the same as twenty! I mean, what about all those times when you want to look up a word that hasn&#8217;t been used after 1700? Umm&#8230;well, actually, I don&#8217;t need to do that much. But it&#8217;s the principle of the thing. Right?</p> Zeus