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To: central_va
This thread is esoteric and nebulous.

What's this tread got to do with astronomy?

Ummm...wait a sec...I was thinking of nebula...never mind.

22 posted on 04/16/2014 6:08:39 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: Night Hides Not
Nebula is cognate with Greek nephele (as in Aristophanes' Nephelokokkygia, Cloud-cuckoo-land), and I presume with the Russian word nebo meaning "sky."

Is that esoteric enough?

27 posted on 04/16/2014 6:30:10 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus (ADES)
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