Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given by Swift, in “Gulliver's Travels,” to a feigned race of brutes having the form of man and all his degrading passions.
- noun [lowercase] A rough, brutal, uncouth character.
- noun [lowercase] A greenhorn; a back-country lout.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's “Gulliver's Travels.” See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
- noun Hence, any brutish or vicious character.
- noun United States A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rough ,coarse , oruncouth person;yokel ;lout . - noun A loud
boisterous person. - noun A derogatory term for a white person from the Confederate South (i.e., United States).
- noun cryptozoology A humanoid
cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas. - interjection An exclamation of
joy . - interjection A battle cry.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
- noun a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- noun a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
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I know that some yahoo extentions do have free POP service like @yahoo.fr users.
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Yahoo already has the ability to handle yahoo ids that aren't @yahoo.com addresses as they do this for residential dsl customers.
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Under the "ADDRESS" field (which should be the 2nd one) where it says: "example@yahoo.com" just put in your yahoo id WITHOUT the "@yahoo. com" part.
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If you notice the email addresses are gov. palin, and gov. sarah …. @yahoo.com, if you notice the "." … yahoo accounts do not have the "." in them. it would be govpalin … @yahoo. com
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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If you notice the email addresses are gov. palin, and gov. sarah …. @yahoo.com, if you notice the "." … yahoo accounts do not have the "." in them. it would be govpalin … @yahoo. com
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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If you notice the email addresses are gov. palin, and gov. sarah …. @yahoo.com, if you notice the "." … yahoo accounts do not have the "." in them. it would be govpalin … @yahoo. com
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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If you notice the email addresses are gov. palin, and gov. sarah …. @yahoo.com, if you notice the "." … yahoo accounts do not have the "." in them. it would be govpalin … @yahoo. com
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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If you notice the email addresses are gov. palin, and gov. sarah …. @yahoo.com, if you notice the "." … yahoo accounts do not have the "." in them. it would be govpalin … @yahoo. com
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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If you notice the email addresses are gov. palin, and gov. sarah …. @yahoo.com, if you notice the "." … yahoo accounts do not have the "." in them. it would be govpalin … @yahoo. com
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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If this yahoo is a Republican at heart, I'm glad he's not posing anymore.
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August 16, 2008