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Saturday, March 09 2002

We were driving down Crescent Street watching the funny little hotel,

across the street from the Concordia Fine Arts building, down on René Levesque, being demolished by a wrecking ball. Even on good days Crescent Street is the haunt of the aggressively normal but today, with an infestation of Maple Leafs [sic] fans in town for the hockey game, it was almost unbearable. Today was also the first day of Not Winter and the bars that line the street were full of Leaf fans, in their shiny dry-cleaned hockey jerseys, spilling out on to the terrasses. "Go home," my friend called out. "When was the last you won the Cup, anyway?" I was more interested in the wrecking ball but I did hear one of them answer back, "It's not important." Which sums it up pretty well, I think.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : nectar of the clods

Coffee, expecially the first cup in the morning.
ex. Ahhh, morning coffee, nectar of the clods.

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : unctuous

Unctuous \Unc"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [F. onctueux, LL. unctuosus, fr. L. unctus anointment, fr. ungere, unctum, to anoint. See {Unguent}.] 1. Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. ``The unctuous cheese.'' --Longfellow. 2. Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals. 3. Bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or fervid. -- {Unc"tu*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Unc"tu*ous*ness}, n. web1913
unctuous adj : unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn: {buttery}, {fulsome}, {oily}, {oleaginous}, {smarmy}] wn

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