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  4. From: sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA)
  5. Subject: Literafisms
  6. Message-ID: <1992Sep8.171127.15004@nmsu.edu>
  7. Sender: usenet@nmsu.edu
  8. Organization: WHorshipers of Lady LibertY (WHoLLY)
  9. Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:11:27 GMT
  10. Lines: 35
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  13. ok, here they are.  I consider the ones from literature to be true
  14. literafisms (yahoo, quixotic) and the ones myth or folk tales to be
  15. mythofisms.  Some of these are neither, hermetic is from a real
  16. person, Hermes Trimes____.
  17.  
  18. pollyanna              apollonian          Gargantuan       
  19. quixotic           oedipal             Gorgonian        
  20. lilliputian           furious             Mephistophelean  
  21. Pecksniffian           harping             Pantagruelian    
  22. Panglossian           panic               martial          
  23. herculean           Brobdignagian       medusan          
  24. narcissism           sibylline           procrustean      
  25. pandoras box           musical             satanic          
  26. hermetic           solomonic           tantalizing      
  27. faustian           orphic.             vulcanized       
  28. shylock            scrooge             Sisyphean        
  29. Heepish            shylock             Barmecide        
  30. jovial               Pickwickian         Hellerian        
  31. mercurial           Lothario            Catch-22         
  32. dionysian           Arthurian           yahoo
  33. mosaic               martial             serendipitous   
  34. Arthurian           jovial              solomonic      
  35. Athenian           mercurial           Circean        
  36. chimeric           vulcanized/volcano  Lethean.       
  37. gargantuan           babbitry            
  38. Orphic               Falstaffian         
  39. stygian               priapic             
  40. terpsichorean           boreal              
  41.                     
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  43.  
  44. "Life is like a big C program with no documentation"  - Ted Slater
  45.  
  46.     \\\\\sean/////
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