--- Rebecca <rct9911 at comcast.net> wrote: Needless to say, > she's a hobo now, as well as a boring lurker on this list, so everyone try > to draw her out by saying "Haha Jessica, you're a hobo!" "Hobo"?? Obviously not the meaning of the word that I'm used to: Inflected Form(s): plural hoboes also hobos Etymology: origin unknown 1 : a migratory worker 2 : a homeless and usually penniless vagabond http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?hobo -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250