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ouch

...what you might say if you collide with a moose in a noose.

Pain

/ Mind you, moose bites can be mighti nasti

regurgitate

...Last edited by uncle phil : 07-01-2008 at 04:49 PM. Reason: sorry, nick...

I forgive you unc...I don't even know what you did but it doesn't even matter

vile

...or it could be a vial of vile urine...like after you eat a bunch of asparagus.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ring

zoster

eeewww...

bent...

flebitis

/Spanish write it with an "f" instead of "phlebitis"

gams

/ in which flebitis is most likely to strike.

indiscretion

(you did mean Haldeman?)

Kent

...State. Four Dead in Ohio...

Sydney freakin' australia...twice...april of '68 and november of '68...

you go, ring!!!

Timbuktu

...never been there yet

unlike, anywhere else.

Timbuktu, Mali: Intellectual and Spiritual Capital
Few places in the world have an air of mystery as alluring as Timbuktu. The name of this city in the West African country of Mali is so wrapped in legend that many people think of Timbuktu as a mythical, timeless land rather than a city with a real history.

In many cultures, Timbuktu is used in phrases to express great distance and to suggest something beyond a person's experience. Popular sayings such as "I'll knock you clear to Timbuktu" suggest that, for many people, Timbuktu has existed more as an idea of the remote and mysterious than as an actual place.

For West Africans, however, Timbuktu was an economic and cultural capital equal in historical importance to acclaimed cities like Rome, Athens, Jerusalem, and Mecca. Beginning in the thirteenth century, Timbuktu became the center of a thriving trade in Africa. Prosperity made by the trans-Saharan trade routes brought great wealth to the city. This wealth attracted not only merchants and traders but also men of academic and religious learning.

Timbuktu was founded around 1100 C.E. as a camp for its proximity to the Niger River. Caravans quickly began to haul salt from mines in the Sahara Desert to trade for gold and slaves brought along the river from the south. By 1330, Timbuktu was part of the powerful Mali Empire, which controlled the lucrative gold-salt trade routes in the region. Two centuries later, Timbuktu reached its grandeur under the Songhay Empire, becoming a haven for scholars.

Photo Credits:
top: C. & J. Lenars/CORBIS
bottom: UNESCO
From the early part of the fourteenth century to the time of the Moroccan invasion in the late sixteenth century, the city of Timbuktu became an important intellectual and spiritual center of the Islamic world, attracting people from as far away as Saudi Arabia to study there. Great mosques, universities, schools, and libraries were built under the Mali and Songhay Empires, some of which still stand today.

Timbuktu's golden age ended in the late sixteenth century, when a Moroccan army destroyed the Songhay Empire. Portuguese navigators ensured Timbuktu's decline by establishing reliable trade with the West African coast and undercutting the city's commercial power. Around 400 years ago, European merchant ships began trading along the West African coast, and the cross-Saharan trade routes lost their importance. Having lost the source of its wealth, Timbuktu declined and became known as a lost city.

Today, the very fabric of Timbuktu today is threatened by what once contributed to the city's success—the Sahara Desert. The desert, which for centuries brought wealth to the city, now brings only drifting sands, driven by the dry wind of the harmattan, that threaten to smother the city and its monuments. This desertification has destroyed the vegetation, water supply, and many historical structures in the city. In response to the threat of encroachment by desert sands, Timbuktu was inscribed on the World Heritage List in Danger in 1990 and UNESCO established a conservation program to safeguard the city.

VERY ...thanks a lot, ring. I guess I better go before the desert covers it. Plus, I like goat and couscous.

Tea for Two in Timbuktu

http://photos.igougo.com/images/p190...es_Artisan.jpg

I found that they have a driving school:

http://photos.igougo.com/images/p190...ing_school.jpg

(OK, I didn't understand that):

Xylophone.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick

next word...

Wyalusing...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?

(OK, I didn't understand that):

Xylophone.

please see www.howtointerpretbadnick.com

Yutzi

...j/k to use the "Y", I know Ocm? is really a smart guy

when did my alphabet change?

#1632 - Sydney
#1633 - Timbuktu
#1634 - Unlike
#1635 - Very
#1636 - Xylophone???

Let's start over at ZERO

inbred

/ Lahk shootin fish in uh burl, Cleetus.

Kentucky

Sunny Waddy Peytona!

lame-asses...with an L

rottweiler

...this is Queen Isabella at 3 weeks old
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...bella-3wks.jpg

Sic 'em

( poor rotties got a bad rap..they are not all mean)

unfalse

Hey it ain't Scrabble ... :p

vicious

(He knocked me down a viciously licked my face until I was helpless with giggles.)

It was WICKED fun.

(So is a candle.)

Xerxes.

Yavannas
/ What the Indians called Alexander's Greeks, who had recently beaten the snot out of Persia

Fly

/ Too easy to resist

Gentleman.

(& I love him.).

If you wish - I mean, witness his means!

(Should I play fair?)

Intoxication.

length

*i'll get you back Top*

Newtons

/ I'm sure you will, Fly. It's just a matter of time.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ottopilot

fig

Moraceae

...is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mulberry or fig family.

Naucleopsis

...is a genus of plant in family Moraceae

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tophat665

Newtons

/ I'm sure you will, Fly. It's just a matter of time.

Oral with an O

(you guys are gonna give phil a corOnary)

penis

*see how well that fits in there.........:D*

Queme

/ no, but see how well that fits it?

rectify

(you Chaucerist)

Still, oh please be still, my throbbing heart...