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Q is for Qalyn

8===>Q: alyn

14:21 / 27.08.02

It's the irrational superfluity of Q that I love. Q keeps U busy and lends K a stately air, but why should it be so? Q is shaped like a lamprey's mouth or like a full moon with its wang hanging out, and is used to denote the hypothetical lost manuscript, consisting largely of sayings of Jesus, that is believed to have been the source of those passages in Matthew and Luke that bear close similarity to each other but not to parallel passages in Mark.

Y, of course, is the Q of the vowels.

Ethan Hawke

14:40 / 27.08.02

There's this book called the Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer that uses a lot of "z" words. You might be interested in that.

Mourne Kransky

15:57 / 27.08.02

Quite, Qalyn. And there's the quagga of course, an inferior cousin of the zebra. But don't you feel, in your heart of hearts, that it's a rather queeny and self-important letter to require the ubiquitous adherence of that innocent "u", a good root vowel with quite enough to do? Except in the case of Qalyn, a quality fictionsuit.

Can't query Q's queer credentials though.

8===>Q: alyn

17:46 / 27.08.02

It is a quandry, ZoCher. I wouldn't advise the application of such quantitative inquiry as befits a study of double-scalpelled Z, to Q. It can only leave you in a quagmire of qualms. There is no good reason for Q, but she qualifies the dignity of 'quiet', the grace of 'quick', and the rascality of 'delinquent' -- just try spelling them any other way.

I can't quibble that there is something imperious and faintly abusive about the relationship between Q and her trusty sidekick. Q operates alone mostly in other languages, where she instills the ruqs of Qatar, the floes of Qaanaaq (a local name for Thule, and as fine a palandrome as one could require), or the person of Queequeg with an unquestionable mystery.

(Now I'm afraid I won't be able to stop thinking this way.)

grant

19:39 / 27.08.02

Perhaps, if you need to relax, you could simply chew some qat?

8===>Q: alyn

19:56 / 27.08.02

...an unquestionable mystery.

Of course, this should read, "je ne c'est qua".

What a quiff I am.

jUne, a sunshiny month

07:22 / 28.08.02

>"je ne c'est qua"

and here comes your friendly french june, who informs you that these few words doesn't get any sense.
"je ne" means "I" and some negative injection as "not",
"c'est" means "it is",
"qua" means... uh... nothing, really ?
maybe you wanted to say
"je ne sais quoi", which means "I don't know what", or "whatever" kind of thing.
(checks could be posted to june, rue de l'amour, france)

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:24 / 28.08.02

Ah, June, as ever the sine qua non of wisdom...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:55 / 28.08.02

(warning- "White Men Can't Jump" reference on its way...)

Foods starting with the letter Q?

8===>Q: alyn

09:59 / 28.08.02

Yes, june, that's what I meant. Thanks ever so much.

adamswish

18:08 / 28.08.02

Foods starting with the letter Q?

it's slightly cheating but - Quorn. But then is that a food stuff?

Seeing as my real surname begins with this letter I've always had a soft spot for Q.

deja_vroom

18:20 / 28.08.02

If I take too many, can I consider Quaaludes as food?

8===>Q: alyn

18:39 / 28.08.02

The quorum on q-foods, I think, is quince.

deja_vroom

18:51 / 28.08.02

que sera, sera...

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