Re: cudiments

From: patty (pattyNO_at_SPAMicyberspace.net)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:30:58 GMT

Lester Zick wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:42:03 GMT, patty <pattyNO@SPAMicyberspace.net>
> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
>
>
>>Albert wrote:
>>
>>>Lester Zick wrote:
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>>For some reason cudiments strikes my fancy whereas pottes doesn't.
>>>
>>>
>>>It feels to me like a bad weld between a cow chewing its 'cud' and
>>>'condiments', with subtle overtones of 'codpiece'.
>>>
>>
>>Which is good because it was intended to have a negative connotation.
>>It comes from "cudies" which are things with which dirty boys are
>>expected to be infected. Incidentally you won't find "cudies" in Webster
>>but you will find it at Google.
>
>
> That's only because the conventional spelling I'm familiar with is
> "cooty" which is a louse the plural of which is lice

Which just goes to show you that Google is better at this stuff than
Webster ... check out <http://www.google.com/search?q=cudies>.

> and which girls
> are just as likely to have according to their particular cudiments.

Really? How would you know?

patty

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