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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Ever since I’ve been a tied wad and money really lost its luster.
I’m such a tied wad when it comes to medi-gel
Old tied wad!!!
It works well, if you ask me.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Grade A. The roundtripper of tongue tight.
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Yes, very nice!
It does seem like tied and tight ought to be etymologically related back of all that, but it was all a long time ago … the etymology sites don’t link them, but they both peter out at the “Germanic†stage, and the ancestral meanings of “tie(d)†and “dense, compact†aren’t all that close.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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