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Obsolete phrases 2801Hmm, went to be with a headache. One of the best articles on random strings I have ever read (also, possibly, the only one) was by Mr. Thurber, who wrote before the time of the Personal Computer, but was able to get great fun out of the random string `sgr' (he ignored spaces, X20), and did some definitions such as the invented word `kissgranny', as a gigilo. (Was it James Thurber? He used to write for some of the New York magazines). I did a grep of a wordlist for `civ' Percival civet civets civic civicism civicisms civics civie civies civil civiler civilest civilian civilianization civilianizations civilianize civilianized civilianizes civilianizing civilians civilise civilising civilists civilities civility civilizable civilizables civilization civilizational civilizationals civilizations civilize civilized civilizedness civilizer civilizers civilizes civilizing civilly civilness civisms civitas civvies civvy coercive coercively coerciveness coercivity conducive conduciveness crescive crescively embracive evincive hypercivilization hypercivilizations hypercivilized incivil incivilities incivility intercivilization lascivious lasciviously lasciviousness noncivilized overcivilization overcivilize overcivilizes piscivorous precivilization recivilization recivilize recivilizes seducive semicivilization semicivilized subcivilization subcivilizations supercivilization supercivilized uncivil uncivilizable uncivilizables uncivilization uncivilize uncivilized uncivilizedness uncivilizeds uncivilizes uncivilly civically making 92 words out of 140866, (.06531029%) so the string `civ' would seem a good spamstopper. Obsolete phrases 2803 Power amp, tuning circuit, and other dumb radio stuff... yes. The "handset" would have consisted of the preamp, socket for keying and the 'secure' stuff like scrambler. If you suspected that your...
-- greymaus Obsolete phrases 2802 Perhaps it's not worthwhile hearing from them. Most people don't realize what they have to do to tune in TV or radio. Even in 1983, when I was wearing baggy green...
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