Re: Re: OT: On keeping domesticated peeves as pets --> Re[2]: Colonists and Weapons

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From: <laserlight@quixnet.net>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 1:42 PM
Subject: RE: Re: OT: On keeping domesticated peeves as pets --> Re[2]:
Colonists and Weapons

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> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:42:31 -0500, Flak Magnet
<flakmagnet72@yahoo.com>
wrote :
>
> > I thought that by definition a _pet_ peeve was your single most
> > prominent peeve. How can you have more than one most prominent
peeve?
>
> But you can have more than one pet (eg a dog, a hedgehog, and a
hamster)
simultaneously, right?	So "pet" merely designates a higher but not
necessarily exclusive status.  A "noble" peeve, so to speak, as opposed
to
lesser or "common" peeves.  The next step up, however, is not a "peeve"
but
a "pain", as in "a royal pain".
>
"a royal pain". In the parenting dictionary (unabridged) refers to a
teen
aged son....) I do however like the "noble" peeve classification...

Don