Twin Peaks Usenet Archive

Subject: Re: Albert Rosenfeld, it's been nice knowing you
From: jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (Rampant Red Food-U-Later)
Date: 1990-04-27, 19:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: gaffa!jsd (Jon Drukman)

In article <19068.263814b8@merrimack.edu> rand@merrimack.edu writes:
> >A-L-B-E-R-T   R-O-S-E-N-F-E-L-D leaves Twin Peaks on a good note:
> >
> >"Mr. Horne, I realize that your position in this fair community pretty
> >well guarantees vainality*, insincerity, and a rather irritating
> >method of expressing yourself.

And now Professor Drukman's vocabulary lesson for the day:

venal \'ve-n-*l\ \*l-e-\ aj [L venalis, fr. venum (acc.) sale; akin to Gk 
   o-neisthai t]o buy,Skt vasna price : capable of being bought or obtained 
   for money or other valuable consideration : PURCHASABLE; esp : mercenary 
   corrupt - ve.nal.ly av

ve.nal.i.ty \vi-'nal-*t-e-\ n : the quality or state of being venal esp. as 
   open to improper influence or bribery

A very very nasty insult, as you can see!

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