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(Thanks to Countdown)
BLATHERSKITE[^]
Now, we don't have any of them here, do we? (Myself excepted, of course)
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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There are two of them having a noisy disagreement in the office right now who are hurtling towards a damn good shoeing.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Keep the noise down I'm trying to work. 
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Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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I'm not sure I believe that.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I really am working on an article I've been asked to write for one of the applications I've created but am listening to Alan Parsons right now so oblivious to the noise.
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Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Hi OriginalGriff,
Michael Quinion at WorldWideWords has a good page on this word and its homonymic connection with words like "blather," and phrases like "blithering idiot:" [^], and its usage origin in the U.S. via a Scottish song popular with the Continental Army (the patriots fighting the Evil Empire).
cheers, Bill
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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That explains a lot: when I mentally construct a sentence using it, it seems to pick up a Glasgow accent along the way! 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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O'Reilly on Fox News uses that often as his word of the day.
Dave.
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Really? "Blatherskite", eh?
I always thought that a word which defines that of a person who talks at length without making much sense had already been defined. You know, "Obama".
Now, in as far as @OriginalGriff being one such self-proclaimed Blatherskite, the problem with such the self-proclamation is one being such that we on CP have no way to confirm such. For, we only *read* your words, not hear them. Thus, we cannot confirm that of your talking at length to then discern if it is or is not making much sense.
Now, there are those who, in fact, speak at length that make much cents yet without making much sense.
Likewise, those who write at length, making much cents yet without making much sense.
And, while this post is of length, while not making much cents (at least in as far as for me), hopefully, it is making *some* sense! 
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Every time I hear that word I think of the DuckTales[^] cartoon I used to watch growing up. One of the characters called Gizmoduck[^] used to always say the catch phrase "blathering blatherskite" in repsonse to someone talking.
Jeremy Falcon
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Do I sense a new word here "colostophobic": The fear of having parts of your bowels removed.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Yeah, just noticed and fixed.
I had a hack to somewhere near and then completely forget to right click for the correct spelling.
Far, far, far too used to autocorrect these days, isn't it about times that browsers and email clients and the like caught up?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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There are redundant safety measures so the chances are injury are pretty small.
And think of it this way: if all the measures failed (very unlikely - and they'd all have to fail at once) then it'd be quick. A short period of free fall and... *splat* 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Not worried about the fall, all you have to do is jump just before impact*.
Being somewhere and not able to get out would get to me though I think, I don't wear a watch or long sleeved tops cos I don't like the feeling of restriction.
*I know that doesn't work, don't worry.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I have enough trouble getting out of a chair these days, never mind a stuck lift.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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So You are not getting a spanking new Long John for christmas. 
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Nor a long spanking fron John
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chriselst wrote: I think I would seriously freak out should I get trapped in a large tiny metal box suspended half way up a building.
Since you're referring to London I FTFY.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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chriselst wrote: I think I would seriously freak out should I get trapped in a large metal box suspended half way up a building.
Friday night, almost the last to leave the office and the lift stopped somewhere around floor 5. This was before I had a mobile phone as well, 45 minutes I sat in that large (I wish) small metal box suspended half way up a building. Then it was off to the pub and a well deserved beer.
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chriselst wrote: I think I would seriously freak out should I get trapped in a large metal box suspended half way up a building.
An elevator car is just like your coffin, only much larger.
Well, that and the coffin is under a thick layer of dirt.... where nobody can hear you scream.
Sweet dreams.
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I once used a small and out of the way elevator that no one else seemed to use on the ferry between Newcastle and IJmuiden (note: that's an IJ, stop writing Ij, I've seen multiple official sites do it).
It seemed fine at first, going up .. but then suddenly down a bit, up again, then it stopped halfway between floors and opened on its own. I climbed out as quickly as I could, afraid that it would suddenly move.
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The one and only Google result for "symposionic conversation"[^]
I found that actually amusing, that the only hit is the very event that I'm coordinating.
Marc
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