<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I have just run across a word few to me:  sockdolager, meaning <span class="gmail-sensenum" style="font-family:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold;font-size:1.1em;display:inline-block;min-width:1em">1. </span><div class="gmail-def" style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5em;display:inline">a <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/decisive" title="Definition of decisive" class="gmail-ref gmail-type-def" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.6);border-left-color:initial;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">decisive</a> blow or <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/remark" title="Definition of remark" class="gmail-ref gmail-type-def" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.6);border-left-color:initial;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">remark</a></div></div><div class="gmail-sense" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-sensenum" style="padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold;font-family:inherit;font-size:1.1em;display:inline-block;min-width:1em">2. </span><div class="gmail-def" style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.5em;display:inline">an <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/outstand" title="Definition of outstanding" class="gmail-ref gmail-type-def" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:dashed;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.6);border-left-color:initial;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">outstanding</a> person or thing</div></div><div class="gmail-sense" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In either Sweet Thursday or Cannery Row a party was described with a word I cannot recall but I think it rhymes with the word above.  Can you remember it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><div class="gmail-sense" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail-sense" style="margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 3:19 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-3950367619780362099WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Perseverance is down safe on the surface.  I am so impressed, that landing sequence is a looooong row of dominoes, all of which need to fall exactly right to set down a payload of this size.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Well done NASA!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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