Heard on Animal Planet: "Polar bears are amazingly _stealthful_."
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 14 15:24:31 UTC 2011
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Obscure?
Good question! I've always interpreted_Obs._ as "obsolete," but not
for any particular reason. "Obsolete and rare"? "Obscure and rare"?
WTF?
Youneverknow.
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