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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:36:45 CST
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- From: Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: My Birthday is in April
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- > Most certainly. But tell me, why April 15? I mean, is it as if some
- > advertisement appeared in the papers on April 15? I have often thought
- > about this April 15 business. The other question which has bugged me
-
- I don't understand the question. Isn't April 15 as good a birthday as
- any other date? Natalie figured out from all evidence she could piece
- together that I was born mid April 1982. Since it's awkward to say "My
- birthday is mid April," she declared it April 15. Part of the reason for
- her choice of that date was that it was the birthday of the late Rusty,
- a dachshund born in the early '50s.
-
- > often in the past is, what is a "feist"? I mean, can "half beagle, half
- > feist" have any meaning at all?
-
- feist \'fi-st\ n [obs. fisting hound, fr. obs. fist (to break wind)]
- chiefly dial : a small dog
-
- feisty \'fi--ste-\ aj chiefly South & Midland : being in a state of
- excitement or agitation : as : full or nervous energy : FIDGETY : touchy
- and quarrelsome : frisky and exuberant
-
- Yes, "half beagle, half feist" has meaning. At least in this part of the
- country. I do not recognize the AKC.
-
- o/.\____/
- -- Bernard \______|
- / \ / \
- half beagle, half feist
-