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"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 19:09:40 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
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>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:42:30 -0800, sf > wrote:
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>> >On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:36:17 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:17:43 -0800, sf > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:03:09 +1100, Bruce >
>> >> >wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 19:50:30 -0800, sf > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:01:46 -0500, jmcquown
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> On 11/19/2014 2:54 PM, sf wrote:
>> >> >> >> > Slumgullion - now that's a word from the distant past! I'd
>> >> >> >> > call my
>> >> >> >> > garbage soup that, because it sounds so much fancier, but I
>> >> >> >> > won't
>> >> >> >> > remember until it's too late.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> What happened to "mustgovian"?!
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >It's a stupid word that several long gone rfc posters thought was
>> >> >> >clever and I won't use.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> "must be used now or else thrown out"?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mustgovian
>> >> >
>> >> >It's a stupid, cutesy word that some people thought was clever.
>> >> >Webster records words found x number of times in print. That's it.
>> >>
>> >> Yes, but Webster doesn't know it. That's why I tried to interpret it
>> >> myself.
>> >
>> >Apply whatever meaning works for you. Another one I can't stand is
>> >"used meat".

>>
>> I guess that's just before it becomes mustgovian.

>
> I think it's spelled without the t "musgovian".
>
> Used mean is sale meat from the mark down bin. Why they decided "used
> meat" was appropriate is anybody's guess. It conjures up images of
> prechewed food for me.


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