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NNadir

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14. I cheerfully plead guilty to the unconscionable crime of failure to cut and paste...
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 08:13 AM
Thursday

...spellings into DU lookup.

By being a poor cut and paster however I did learn that there are many variants among DUes who admire the Hun enough to appropriate his name, one t, two ts, one l two ls with a number of additional terms added, including two referring to color, At....theblonde and At...theblue.

When I was young I thought I was a good speller until speller checkers disabused me of that inflated opinion of myself.

As I age it gets worse, although spell checkers can do horrible things to words, particularly in technical writing, not quite as bad as ChatGPT, but close.

What is even worse for me with my fat fingers is typing on a cellphone as I am doing now. Speller checkers seem not to save me from having "the" come off as "tge" because g and h are adjacent in the small QWERTY keyboard.

I do hope you were not offended by my crime, to which I pled guilty without Pam Bondi showing interest whitewashing my criminality, the crime of failure to cut and paste.

Have a nice day.

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Attilatheblonde alittlelark Wednesday #1
I like that one. Do you want the heart for yourself or for AttillatheBlonde? NNadir Wednesday #4
Attilatheblonde should get it alittlelark Wednesday #5
I've seen Attillatheblonde's posts somewhere, but somehow, I can't find Attilla on DU lookup. For now, you get... NNadir Thursday #7
Only one l in Attila Donkees Thursday #10
Ok, done. There does, according to the lookup... NNadir Thursday #11
Posts 1 and 5 in this thread include the spelling :) Donkees Thursday #12
I cheerfully plead guilty to the unconscionable crime of failure to cut and paste... NNadir Thursday #14
Mousetoescamper, mahatmakanejeeves Easterncedar Wednesday #2
regnaD kciN Easterncedar Wednesday #3
I vaguely remember there being Firesign Theater, but the reference goes over my head. Still I like it. NNadir Thursday #8
Thanks. One for regnaD, if you like Easterncedar Thursday #13
Will do. Thanks for playing. NNadir Thursday #15
Thanks for the idea. I hope you don't mind my tagging along a little Easterncedar Thursday #19
Done. NNadir Thursday #16
As an old Monty Python fan, I have to give the nod to Muriel Volestrangler. nt eppur_se_muova Thursday #6
OK, I'll go with that. Will the heart be for you or for Muriel Volestrangler? NNadir Thursday #9
Oh, for her, of course ! I'm kind of bad about reading instructions -- the more my prescription is out eppur_se_muova Thursday #20
Done. NNadir Thursday #21
That Username Has Been... ProfessorGAC Thursday #22
I nominate SalmonChantedEvening in remembrance Donkees Thursday #17
One for you for that thought Easterncedar Thursday #18
You know what? All of us miss that magnificent DUer. NNadir Thursday #23
Done. We are not alone. There was one other memorial heart. NNadir Thursday #24
🧡 Thank You Donkees Thursday #25
I've always loved the name "2naSalit". Totally Tunsie Thursday #26
Oh yes! An outstanding poster as well. I may have given her hearts previously, but I'll give her another now. NNadir Yesterday #27
Done. NNadir Yesterday #28
Thank you, thank you, NNadir! Totally Tunsie 22 hrs ago #29
It is hard to know about gender if not told in an anonymous blog. NNadir 21 hrs ago #30
Well said, NNadir. Totally Tunsie 21 hrs ago #31
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