I Quit!Scaryduck writes, "I celebrated my last day on my paper round by giving everybody next door's paper, and the house at the end 16 copies of the Maidenhead Advertiser. And I kept the delivery bag. That certainly showed 'em."
What have you flounced out of? Did it have the impact you intended? What made you quit in the first place?
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chthonic, Thu 22 May 2008, 12:15)
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KaolColloquially, it's come to mean "virgin birth". But, IIRC, the partheno- bit means "young woman", and so "virgin" only by implication.
Could be wrong, though - I had to teach myself Greek by crossreferencing the Penguin and the Loeb Classical Library editions of Plato and Aristotle (with a bit of Liddell and Scott's Lexicon thrown in).
@GOAT: you're changing your original post again. Now you say that the US and UK are both socialist systems. I'd welcome it - with reservations - if they were. But they aren't. Really. They aren't.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 29 May 2008, 12:57,
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