| n_cramerSPAM@pacbell.net 2006-08-03, 2:52 am |
| "Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote:
quote:
> This is something like 50 'personal' messages in one weekend - ALL of
> them speculate negatively about other people - and of course every one is
> off-topic. Brennan has an obsession - and wants even more personal
> information [!] to willfully distort or misrepresent those to whom he
> attaches himself - as a sportulary [that's a word from the 1600's, and
> means 'a dole'].
Excellent, Phil. Sportulary, Supported by, dependent or subsisting on, the
doles or gifts of patrons. The last reference to the word in my OED is from
1649, a time when many artists, philosophers and chess players were on the
dole, IIRC.
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