Should I tell you? You’re competition! But you’re my audience…I shall! Powell’s is giving away the OED to celebrate that beautiful tome’s 75th birthday. 20 volumes! A $3,000 value, they say! How can they set a value on that book! How I’ve missed it since I left the sheltering nest of the CWRU IP block…How glorious should it be mine!
Hey, I see you entering! It’s mine! SCAT!
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Competition indeed!
Okay, so I threw my name in the hat and I hope I win instead of you. Sorry! ;-)
I very much enjoy my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, but two volumes just isn’t the same as twenty! I mean, what about all those times when you want to look up a word that hasn’t been used after 1700? Umm…well, actually, I don’t need to do that much. But it’s the principle of the thing. Right?
Special offers? Pah!
Ack. Don’t be like me and enter your email address before reading the not-so-fine print that says “All entrants will receive special offers from Powells.com — discounts, rebates, signed editions, and more!”
Just what I need. More email. I’d better win.
Re: Special offers? Pah!
But you can unsubscribe after the first one. And they won’t sell you out.
Re: Competition indeed!
Well, if you DO win, look up the word “grotty” and call yourself it from me!
If not, don’t.
And, at least at school, I had to look up words like that a fair bit.
Re: Special offers? Pah!
You underestimate how lazy I am. And it’s a weird kind of laziness, too. I’d rather tweak spam filters for three hours than click a few links to unsubscribe from something. Weird, huh?
Re: Special offers? Pah!
Plus, the Powell’s newsletter has cute Fup bits.
Sorry...
But I registered before you posted… otherwise, of course, I would never have tried to get in on your OED action. cough
Re: Competition indeed!
Well, if by “grotty” you mean “Unpleasant, dirty, nasty, ugly; generally displeasing or disagreeable,” then I don’t need to win to look it up… tell me to call myself something that I’ll only find in the OED and then I’ll be impressed ;-)