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

--- "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
wrote:
> 
> 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".

I, for instance, have a kennel of pet peeves ranging
from Socialists to Carolingians with delusions of
Godhood.

John

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