Happy New Year, 2007.

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Happy New Year, 2007.

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A very very Happy New Year to the DSX family.

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On behalf of me tooo :D :D
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:D Wish you all DSXians a very Happy, Exciting & Peaceful New Year :D
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Happy new year to all you guys. Had a beautiful year, expect even better the following....
May this year bring increase in knowledge and wisdom, health and o yea, lots of wealth... :twisted:
Enjoy...
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Happy New Year wishes from my side too to everyone !
Get prepared to handle the V8 :P
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"To eschew all reference to mission statements, stakeholders, strategic plans, corporate aims, goings forward and all other verbal paraphernalia of a verbose, litigious world, to avoid the humbug of irrelevant aspersions and render the reader a somewhat happier and contented soul with funny musings and light-hearted play with the ridiculous."

-- "Column 8" Sydney Morning Herald, 30 December 2006
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Post by DSguru2B »

Is that your moto too, for 2007 :?:
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Nah. Mine is simpler. Eschew prolixity. :lol:
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Dont do that, or we will have to guess what you are trying to say... We need your verbosity here :wink:
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Dang, another Wurlod Word I had to look up. :?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolixity
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Re: Resolution

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ray.wurlod wrote:"To eschew all reference to mission statements, stakeholders, strategic plans, corporate aims, goings forward and all other verbal paraphernalia of a verbose, litigious world, to avoid the humbug of irrelevant aspersions and render the reader a somewhat happier and contented soul with funny musings and light-hearted play with the ridiculous."

-- "Column 8" Sydney Morning Herald, 30 December 2006
Ah! The grandiose Ray. :) Love it. Keep it up.

P.S: grandiose in a positive way.
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chulett wrote:Dang, another Wurlod Word I had to look up. :?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolixity
At the risk of seeming tendentious, I feel that the Wikipdia entry doesn't really pick up the negative connotation as well as the dictionary.com entry.
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This link says it all!
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Post by chulett »

Tendentious? Great... you must be doing this on purpose. I don't remember the in person Wurlod being quite so obfuscatory. :wink:
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obfuscatory='confuse or unclear'. This is tough guys......

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