You are too much Ron, no offence taken to your using the word pill. At
least its not as blatent as when someone says "it's like a cancer, it grows
and grows". Now that one makes my ears pick up and my heart race. We love
you, Lillian
-----Original Message-----
From: HewRon@aol.com <HewRon@aol.com>
To: mol-cancer@lists.meds.com <mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
Date: Sunday, February 01, 1998 5:30 PM
Subject: [MOL] Apologies to Lillian and John
>Ouch! I have always thought of "pill" as an endearing term when used for a
>person. And I have always used it that way. Something made me look it up in
>the dictionary and voila! the definition given is "tiresome", which is
>definitely not what I meant. When I think of the people I must have
offended
>over the years! Though I haven't used it that often. I thought "a perfect
>pill" meant someone who was cute and cuddly. Maybe thought transference
made
>me think about the note I sent a few minutes ago and made me wonder about
the
>word "pill". Oh goodness, and to think I basically had my career in words
and
>their meanings! I even looked up "pill" in the Oxford English English
>dictionary, thinking I must have got the idea from my youth in England.
Nope.
>It's not there either.
>
>Forgive me, you couple of angels. I think I need a pill.
>
>-- Ron
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