Steve Smith wrote at 10/15/2013 10:44 AM:
On 10/15/13 10:14 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote:
apiarist (I love that a dictionary is a keystroke away on a Mac)
On 10/14/13 9:37 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
except that some apiests (is that a word?)
My (very) bad. I bungled that at several levels... I was trying to coin a pun (ape-ist) and didn't even
spell that right, much less meta-tag it properly with "(pun intended)" (rather than "(is that
a word?") or provide enough background (I was drawing a parallel in my mind between colony-animal
behaviour and the colloquial use of the term "to ape").
Damn it. I was hoping to respond before you came back around. I read it as
a-piest: someone who lacked pie-ism. Then pie-ism could mean either 1)
dogmatic piety or 2) dogmatic ceremony surrounding the creation and consumption
of pie.
I'm definitely an apiest, since I lack any -ism(s) relating to piety or pie, or
the piety of pie ... though I admit to being pi-qued by pi-ism ... or, assuming
you're using the right e-mail client π-ism.
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In this world where I am king
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