Fwd: "plugged, adj." - Word of the Day from the OED

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Feb 13 20:34:47 UTC 2011


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
> The nickel historically has been of too little value

But, isn't that the point: being worth even less than the debased
value of a counterfeit of an object that, even in its genuine form, is
already of trivial value?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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