In a message dated 3/30/2004 7:04:06 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> >But the short answer is 'a sense of the numinous' (not
> >my words - Doug's? Bob's? Robert's? - but I liked them
> >enough to appropriate them).
> 
> Running a quick search through last year's posts revealed a plethora of
> posts (23) using the word "numinous". Seemed to be up to 7 different threads
> over a period of about 5 weeks. The first instance was actually (and
> surprisingly) in one of my posts!
> 

Numinous:
   4. Alternate usage, slang. The tendency towards the too often repition of 
joke told by Robin Williams as a robot in Bicentennial Man. Which starts with: 
Doctor, "May I numb your breasts?"


William Taylor
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