LOL--guess they have to be, in that case!

FT

Scout wrote:
sooooo, they're liberals then?

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Well, no...it was still owned by the COmmunist Party last time I looked...

Scout wrote:

The Chinese have their own country now??
Scout

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Shouldn't that now be CHina?

FT

Scout wrote:


It's the American Heritage Dictionary. I think it's made in Japan.
Scout

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I'm impressed. It even reads like the Queen's English, as well as
making sense and being accurate. Are you _quite_ sure this is a US
literary product?

FT

Scout wrote:



But of course! It's a proper, American Dictionary!
di·no·flag·el·late (dº"n½-fl²j".-l¹t, -l³t", -fl.-jµl"¹t) n. Any of
numerous minute, chiefly marine protozoans of the order
Dinoflagellata, characteristically **having two flagella** and a
cellulose covering and forming one of the chief constituents of
plankton. They include bioluminescent forms and forms that produce red
tide. [From New Latin Dinoflagellata, class name : Greek dinos, eddy
(from dinein, to whirl) + Latin flagellum, flagellum; see FLAGELLUM.]

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In that case it needs to be a good one: make _sure_ it mentions the
_two_ flagella--I'd hate to shortchange any poster to this newsgroup,
especially those who've razed the level of wit and invective
lately--and the way the flagella appear to thrash out of synch, one
in a groove and the other spirally. The confusion is only apparent,
not real: it aids their microscopic filter feeding. But the lasting
impression is still of a lot of blind, pointless thrashing about.

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Scout wrote:




lucky you're here or I'd never get to use my dictionary.
Scout

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Yes, well, there seem to be a lot of dinoflagellates in the waters
at present...

FT

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No, just testing the waters, so to speak...you know...what you
said...NOT...


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