Juxtapose

He's probably just excited that an older, cute chick is looking at him. (When I first typed that, I accidentally called you a cute "hick" instead of chick. Whoops. Hehehe...)

Oh yeah, you know these older girls. You know how it is. :) "Hick" probably applies as well, Chera. :)

Ah, the good old days of logging on at the library.... I so glad I got's home computer!

I had the same thing happen to me today, some girl with geek glasses and a half-perpetual smile at a computer in a library:)

WHoa, Sven!!! We're living parallel lives! I knew this would happen sometime sooner or later!!

ahhh paralell universeeeeeeeee. i'm likin' this plethera of updates, cass. plethura. plethera?? I need a dictionary.

Plethora, I believe, is the dictionary spelling. But for your nurses half, it was once a medical term and has only lately been revived into a term of abundance.

thanks minxling! :)

Plethora...my least favorite word in the English language. It means many and varied, an overabundance, Why not just say many and varied, or overabundanc? Let's make a concerted effort in each of our lives not the use the word "Plethora," from henceforth, even forever. Its antonym, Paucity, however, is a very cool word and should be employed liberally. "There was a paucity of parking spaces in Lowell yesterday." BTW. Note to Mark and Heidi. It was really nice meeting you both.

It was nice to meet you too paperboy!!!!!!!!! :)

That Paperboy sure knows his words!

Aaaaaactually, the word 'plethora' was originally the word for a boil or some sort of terrible skin/blood disease (in excess of blood). Linguistic legend has it that it never achieved its current non-medicinal connotations until some sportscaster, in an attempt to impress the world-at-large, used it incorrectly in radio chat. The word caught on, and today it has a much more prolific usage than was originally denoted.

OED knows no such anecdotal radio chat-- perhaps because its editors have not seen the light of day since the radio was invented-- but it does cite non-medicinal usages in 1835 ("a plethora of capital") and 1868 ("a plethora of words").

Really? Fascinating. It was a research question in a college course of mine . . . I shall have to see whether I can dredge up any old notes. But thank you . . . and I enjoyed the jab at the OED editors perhaps a trifle too much.

Just don't show the notes to your third graders.

Not *that* kind of notes, silly. The kind students are *encouraged* to take, make, and keep . . . but not pass amongst themselves.