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Message board > WORD OF THE DAY, Monday, 17.12.2012 The WINNER
WORD OF THE DAY, Monday, 17.12.2012 The WINNER
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ldthemagicman
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WORD OF THE DAY, Monday, 17.12.2012 The WINNER
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Thank you, to ALL the Competitors, because there were several ingenious suggestions.
Congratulations, Elderberrrywine, I liked your description! you are the WINNER!
What does SPREZZATURA mean? Studied nonchance! Rehearsed spontaneity. Studied carelessness. Well-practised naturalness. The ability to deliver a witty remark as if it were spontaneous, when, in fact, it is practised again and again.
In your picture, Elderberrywine, the Stilt-Walker is holding a balloon-dog in his/her hand, looking elegantly nonchalant.
Earlier in the evening, I was entertaing an audience by demonstrating how to make a variety of different types of balloon dogs, in front of 50 guests, at an Evening Dress Function. I hope that when I performed and spoke I had sufficient SPREZZATURA.
Over to you, Elderberrywine!
Les Douglas
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19 Dec 2012
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elderberrywine
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YOU SURE ARE A MAN OF MANY TALENTS; LES!!!
- not only do you regularly move me and thousands of ESL members to tears with your witty, comprehensive, crazy, learned, polyglot, slightly rambling contributions to the WOD list and to other threads,
- not only does everyone sense the allround man, the genius, the jack-of-all-intellectual-trades in you
---> you ALSO make little dogs out of balloons and move children and their delighted mothers to tears and their sour-faced husbands to jealous frenzy with your wit, elegance and - sprezzatura , of course.
I am SO IMPRESSED
and I think I �ve actually been a little bit in love with you for quite a while, but have never told l Mr. Elderberrywine about it. No need to trouble him with it now, a few days before Christmas, I guess ...
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20 Dec 2012
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