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the best thing about being a writer -- part XLX

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$Zero

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May 24, 2009, 5:54:03 PM5/24/09
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the best thing about being a writer -- part XLX

it's knowing your audience.

it's knowing that each and every one of them is completely full of
shit.


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the best thing about being a writer -- part XLIX
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/7426870f6e3fddd6

danger...@gmail.com

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May 24, 2009, 11:42:51 PM5/24/09
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On May 24, 2:54 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the best thing about being a writer -- part XLX

'Forty-ten'?

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serenebabe

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May 25, 2009, 3:53:07 AM5/25/09
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On 2009-05-24 23:42:51 -0400, "danger...@gmail.com"
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Last week Maya was learning about Roman numerals a teeny bit (chapters
were numbered that way). She has taken to liking them. She calls them
"old fashioned numbers."

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May 25, 2009, 8:25:41 AM5/25/09
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On May 24, 2:54 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the best thing about being a writer -- part XLX

Explains some mysterious Roman graffiti:

LUCIVS LIX CHIX

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Towse

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May 25, 2009, 8:44:05 PM5/25/09
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Reminds me of someone I knew back in 1981 who had a Sunbeam that was
maybe fifteen years old. He had the license plate XTIGERX.

(But what the L is $Zero talking about?)

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