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Thank you mon, and I have indeed considered doing that, though I don't understand how you could not consider it a glitch for your work to be wiped out for no apparent reason. If all else fails, snapshotting is the obvious approach if only you remember every time; while I realize how tedious and diff...

As hard-disk storage becomes cheaper and more capacious by leaps and bounds, I myself see nothing wrong with using it freely, as above; expatiating; digressing; straying off-thread once in a while, or copying and inserting pertinent materials from other sources, for instance. When I've done it, howe...

Thank you all profusely; but can anyone suggest why Webster doesn't consider the term as slang

I just spent a half hour composing a followup, but when I went to submit it I got a message to the effect that the thread no longer existed, whereupon my reply was deleted

Thanks guys
Yes, phil; we both possess a cat as well as a blue hat

"The proliferation of one dollar bills that is the usual result of a night out on the town" This def is from three or four slang dictionaries in which I place no credence whatever since they copy from one another unmercifully It may be so named because many such wallets bear a gold bar as a logo, pr...

Ken where are you
This is an interesting Q and I'd like to know the A

Where's Ken when somebody needs to be browbeaten

1 Imaginary way to expunge mistake 2 Political mindset allowing one to rationalize his goof: "Politicians...are not always to account when their certitude proved wrong....Bush is hardly the first to take a magic eraser to assertions that prove flat out wrong"–News report 3 A product for cleanup or d...

Mel, thank you, I love it. I'm surprised, tho, that the Mavens of Absolute Conformity don't come down on you for the few bites of superfluous baggage it contributes to the archives. Heaven knows, if it were me, I would be condemned to the fires of eternal damnation Guess it's because I don't fight b...

Ken: Oops, sorry; what I failed to mention was that my query also contained the phrase "real-estate", and that's why I got only 25 hits

Any one else proffer an opinion whether the expression is merely idiomatic or instead qualifies as slang or neologism--thanks, guys

Ken: Since it was being used as a verb, I entered "to option up"

This gave me only a couple of dozen hits

Geek may be a shade closer (http://www.guardian.co.uk Guardian Unlimited | Notes and Queries)

A quick Googling suggests that this phrase literally means to provide or gain additional, better, or all (as in "buy up") options. "...revealing that it was a casino beforehand could have hurt or stopped...land acquisitions [and send] half the real estate brokers in town scurrying out to option up l...

Mel: I'm sure many of us would appreciate an explanation of your tag, indicating your tie to illusions and carpets. Too nuanced for me