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BACK
ISSUES
Issue 101 to 125
Click the items in the right side
of each table from Issue 110 to present to read them.
Issue
124
|
Spotlight |
Frequentatives |
| Words to the Wise |
Dough,
fart, hiccup,
moot, piggyback |
| 5/29/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Vegetarian
chickens |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Poetry
for Cats, French
knee
cognates, trunks and
boots, Wells Fargo, not
exactly macaronic, false
friends , fletcher flowers,
geranium vs. pelargonium |
| Laughing
Stock |
All
Your Base Are Belong to Us |
Issue
122
|
Spotlight |
Skirt, shirt, skit
and shinola |
| Words to the Wise |
pedigree,
butter, green
room, haywire, doula |
| 5/15/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Nuptual? |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Latin
poetry, more w, county,
peppers and wolves, curmudgeoning
in German |
| Laughing
Stock |
Mary
Jane in Idaho |
Issue
119
|
Spotlight |
the
following... |
| Words to the Wise |
humdinger,
dumbbell, scut,
bulletin board, bend
over backwards |
| 4/24/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Who's
ever |
| Letters
to the Editors |
gild the lily, I
tell ye, f*ck and fight?,
a TOWFI fix, more
about nine yards, back
issue format, juggernaut
joke-or-not, anatomy of a
barrel |
| Laughing
Stock |
Secrets
Revealed |
Issue
118
|
Spotlight |
Another
one of those e-mails |
| Words to the Wise |
lock,
stock and barrel,
juggernaut, high
jinks, bun/hot cross bun |
| 4/17/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Ironic
isn't ironic anymore |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Ishtar, French
gender, more Latin plurals,
10,000, spurious
etymology, pepperpot,
Spanish, and New Amsterdam |
| Laughing
Stock |
Yes
+ Yes = No? |
Issue
117
|
Spotlight |
Compost |
| Words to the Wise |
peter
out, Buffalo/Ozarks, imp,
sooterkin/zooterkins, lorry |
| 3/13/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Where
have all the female words gone? |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Monday
in Japanese, crocs
of saffron, I'll give you 40 does
for that saddle, Colombian
gestures, two cents for a
stadia rod, Spanish linguist
to the rescue, going to the
circus with Kate, more cat
skinning |
| Laughing
Stock |
Don't
call, it'll be gone by now |
Issue
116
|
Spotlight |
days
of the week...Wednesday |
| Words to the Wise |
kudos,
cobweb, conjugate,
spring, more
than one way to skin a cat |
| 3/6/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
He's
an-al and an-noyed |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Arabic
Spanish, Honday in Mungarian,
god words, dropping
d's, broads, and
broads again, evil apple pancakes,
time travel, co-curmudgeons,
battle-axitude, troopers
and e-mail, Latin rules?, Christianity
and Chinese |
| Laughing
Stock |
what
a shocker |
Issue
112
|
Spotlight |
table
manners |
| Words to the Wise |
cold
enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey, bring
home the bacon/chew the fat, catapult,
Russia, lame
duck |
| 2/6/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
piquing
one's curiosity |
| Letters
to the Editors |
we
helped, more Engrish,
Hebrew for "morning star",
git, spell
checkers, more gender vs. sex,
the -orama craze, scab
revisited |
| Laughing
Stock |
What
language does your dog speak? |
Issue
111
|
Spotlight |
sticks
and stones |
| Words to the Wise |
quark,
git, arrogant,
alien, steal
one's thunder |
| 1/30/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
taking
a peek at pique |
| Letters
to the Editors |
vegetarian
derivation?, vegetarian
joke, apt names, lingua
franca, more eggnogs, more
Engrish, Lucifer
returns?, we can help, we
can help Mac users, too |
| Laughing
Stock |
What
language does your dog speak? |
Issue
110
|
Spotlight |
whales |
| Words to the Wise |
migraine,
universe, eggnog,
vegetarian, Torpenhow
(hillhillhill) |
| 1/23/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
this or next
weekend? |
| Letters
to the Editors |
posh,
this/next weekend, ghetto
blaster, more on
obfuscation, naked what?,
welcome back, error
policy |
| Laughing
Stock |
Engrish |
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Spotlight |
hogmanay |
| Words to the Wise |
ghetto,
winter, wuss, Sandwich (placename), gymnast |
| 1/16/01 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
obfuscation |
| Letters
to the Editors |
correction, betel
and beetle, more on this/next weekend, chads
again, pot-luck, the nature of our curmudgeons, pot-latch |
| Laughing
Stock |
The Millenium
Bug (well, it really IS the new millennium NOW) |
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Spotlight |
absolutely
fabulous animals |
| Words to the Wise |
beetling,
pot-luck, manhandle, oyez oyez, horror |
| 12/18/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
this or next
weekend? |
| Letters
to the Editors |
chad, the
OED, additions to our bibliography, dangling prepositions and British
math |
| Laughing
Stock |
Discretion
Advised When Upgrading |
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|
Spotlight |
elections (or, from
chads to chaos in one letter) |
| Words to the Wise |
spree,
craven, dastardly, pusillanimous, o'clock, county, lickety-split |
| 11/21/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
more whining
from Malcolm Tent |
| Letters
to the Editors |
more second
person plural and "W'all"
- a double plural, a gracious apology, French etymology, final prepositions. |
| Laughing
Stock |
a notice of
revocation... |
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|
Spotlight |
the days of
the week: Sunday |
| Words to the Wise |
fob,
quadratic, Gordon Bennett, mess, davenport, chaise longue/lounge |
| 11/14/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Suzanne
Carpenter says it alls |
| Letters
to the Editors |
more third
person plural pronoun slang, Norse or Teutonic?, our letters policy,
dingbat again, Italian divas |
| Laughing
Stock |
Phunny photos |
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Spotlight |
the days of
the week continued |
| Words to the Wise |
housewarming,
tongue in cheek, hero, diva, frig |
| 10/31/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Suzanne
Carpenter attempts to sway us with her y'all pitch |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Encyclopedia Britannica,
avian literacy, drownded, dingbat, nor' by
nor'west, you-uns, Olympic Scrabble, |
| Laughing
Stock |
Laws Concerning Food and Drink
[by Ian Frazier] |
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Spotlight |
the days of
the week |
| Words to the Wise |
hunting
pink, stool, foot, bereaved, cancer/Cancer |
| 10/9/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
hyperhyphenation |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Issue 103's
letters repeated [due to Mike being ill] |
| Laughing
Stock |
How I Met My
Wife [by Jack Winter] |
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|
Spotlight |
the
in- words |
| Words to the Wise |
dingbat,
inning, wine, on the wagon, rock and roll, hip hop |
| 10/2/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
nemesis
abuse |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Gore-y
details, en-compass-ed, drownded, letter order, second-person plural |
| Laughing
Stock |
A
Rhose By Any Other Name [by Matthew Sutherland] |
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Spotlight |
the Olympic
games |
| Words to the Wise |
letter
order, loofah, dweomer, cobweb, pissant |
| 9/25/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
bureaucratese |
| Letters
to the Editors |
youse,
drownded, anyways |
| Laughing
Stock |
a parking
restriction we can live with |
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Spotlight |
English words from
Romany |
| Words to the Wise |
trivia,
be there with bells on, France, profession |
| 9/18/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
anyways |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Ks, Chicago
Tribune, more on hokey-pokey, tumped, quibbles and compliments |
| Laughing
Stock |
the doctor is
in |
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|
Spotlight |
wee weighs of
weight |
| Words to the Wise |
hanky-panky
and hokey-pokey, trot line, post haste, pompous, three sheets to the
wind |
| 9/11/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
US spelling |
| Letters
to the Editors |
More
children's rhymes, hosey, Agent 99, braziers, sphagnum moss, St.
Ambrose, heraldry, |
| Laughing
Stock |
"No Man
is an Ireland" - political boners |
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