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[Brenda Lester]

Thomas Hardy would call it madding.



Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
  >On another mailing list, we refer to the act of sending a private
>message to the list as "maddying", after someone who frequently did so.

Wilson is probably thinking of it as "maddening"--almost the same.

LH

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>Brenda Lester wrote:
>>I enjoy your postings, intentional or not!
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>>Wilson Gray wrote:
>> I humbly beg everyone's pardon. These senior moments are quite
>>embarrassing. But, as someone has observed, as long as you can
>>remember that a senior moment has occurred, you''re still all right.
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