dtb does not seem to be around, but if anyone else can answer -- isn't "dentata" plural?

That's easy. It's what ever Ty's blogger of the day says it is.

the politics board was invented in 11/2000. By penske. I was the 6th poster, 2nd if you count my DC Chef persona.

Also, the original Yahoo boards were preceded by greedy lawyer use groups on UUNET in the early 90s. I did not join until late 95 on the Prodigy.net newsgroups, obviously after my untimely murde.......suicide.

Probably. I can't even spell it right, apparently.

Personally, I've not hung around them long enough to find out.

Funny you say that. I didn't realize how big of a loser I really was until I viewed it from an outsider's perspective.

It's not really a spelling error. More sort of a general linguistic naivete. It's sort of sweet.

Happy post-Valentine's Day,
fringey

P.S. Hank, where are my fat jokes?

ETA P.P.S. Our new monkey-spanking friend appears to have its/it's issues. That's way worse than dentatas. OOOOOHHHHHH maybe you are right, vagina dentata is singular, and I was thinking dentatae. Which looks stupid and like it should be the name of some slimy kind of creature, so I like the "s" plural better.

*sniff* I miss dtb.

dentata means "toothed" or "having teeth." Vagina should have been pluralized, a al "attorneys general," to either "vaginas" or vaginae, depending on how pompous gatti was attempting to be.

Me either, but Shape Shifter says it's whithering experience.

Now, THIS is a nice sock, Hank.

S_A_M

Why are we assuming spanky is not a sock?

Some (like your law school roommate, though he's smart enough to usually avoid Greedy Politics) have been doing this since 1999 or so.

And even those of us who have been around a while are ignorant of a lot of the inside baseball type stuff that goes on here.

Stick around. Before you know it, you'll be picking up on two-thirds of the stuff like the rest of us.

First you don't read Clarke's book and expect us to summarize it for you. Now you don't even bother catching up on a (slow) day's worth of posts and want an explanation. I call bullshit. Maybe you can get away with it when you're POTUS; otherwise, people just think you're a lazy bastard.

people already think that. But I'm glad we take RT's word.

BTW, I've found that providing a parenthetical after a citation often helps advance the argument. Just saying.

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At the risk of failing to STP, I'll say that I don't think it's fair to lump Cheney and Keyes. I don't think Cheney is particularly religious. He's a Wyoming libertarian, of the "live and let live" crowd. He may be willing to accommodate the social conservatives in the party, but that's not his thing.

Keyes is a whole 'nother thing.

See, e.g., Burger (being a lazy bastard).