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  • First, here's a portion of the aggravating comment I received in response to the connections made between Latin tōfus and Etruscan tupi but which I promptly deleted for being unnecessarily ornary and also thoroughly invalid: Between you claiming with no proof that word X is Etruscan and an ancient Roman claiming an Etruscan origin for word Y, the latter is naturally more trusted, more reliable.

    Comments on the Etusco-Latin tupi/tōfus connection 2009

  • This is also bourbon country, though we discovered (on trying to get a couple of beers at a filling station – it had been a long day of travel with an ornary toddler) it is a dry county.

    Postcard from America: Filling Stations : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • First, here's a portion of the aggravating comment I received in response to the connections made between Latin tōfus and Etruscan tupi but which I promptly deleted for being unnecessarily ornary and also thoroughly invalid: Between you claiming with no proof that word X is Etruscan and an ancient Roman claiming an Etruscan origin for word Y, the latter is naturally more trusted, more reliable.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • So exhausted and still have many, many meetings but it turns out being ornary sometimes gets rewarded by getting the person who actually knows how the pimp the system instead of waving the row of medical trucks to roll over you.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • So exhausted and still have many, many meetings but it turns out being ornary sometimes gets rewarded by getting the person who actually knows how the pimp the system instead of waving the row of medical trucks to roll over you.

    Fortune Cookie Omen's, a surprise (naughty) gift and dying by fire! Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Goldfish: Yes, I agree not letting others choose them for you, it just seems that I am a bit more ornary than most since everyone seems so suprised when I say THAT word "No" - it makes me wonder how many people are just "processed" and how good everyone seems at deciding what is best for someone else.

    'Fight' or 'Resist'? Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Equally disgusting was the behaviour of Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, and Andy Rooney - ornary old men who were too self consumed and small minded to say something nice, instead of opting for nothing at all.

    Rather Charges That CBS Wanted to ‘Curry Favor’ With White House - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Equally disgusting was the behaviour of Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, and Andy Rooney - ornary old men who were too self consumed and small minded to say something nice, instead of opting to say nothing at all.

    Rather Charges That CBS Wanted to ‘Curry Favor’ With White House - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Great is the god Commonplace, and his prophets of the accredited order of the "Common, ornary Kusses" are legion.

    Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

  • Case wuz his name, -- a leettle man, but worth mor'n a dozen ornary men.

    Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

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