Thursday, December 27 2001

From the salt-in-the-wounds department : 500 wins

He really is a great massive cry baby but he really is also the best goalie ever. And we traded him to Quebec City. And the shameless arthritis suffering huckster managing Team Canada couldn't bring himself to simply make him the starting goalie. Cujo didn't stop you from the one serious chance of winning the Cup outside of Edmonton, did he Wayne?

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is cosmopolite

| source : web1913 | Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\ (-p?l"?-tan), Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (k?z-m?p"?-l?t), n. [Gr. ???; ko`smos the world + ??? citizen, ??? city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. | source : web1913 | Cosmopolitan \Cos`mo*pol"i*tan\, Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\, a. 1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world. The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. --R. Owen. | source : web1913 | Cosmopolite \Cos*mop"o*lite\ (-m?p"?-l?t), a. & n. See {Cosmopolitan}. | source : wn | cosmopolite n : a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: {cosmopolitan}]

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