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"Get out and enjoy it," suggested Doc. "Go skiing. Go ice fishing.
Build a snowman. Do something. Then you'll feel better." "I don't
think your advice will take," said Dud. "Herb seems to be
intransigent on this one."
We all looked at Dud.
"You see, he said he couldn't stand winter," Dud continued,
"which shows he has a proclivity for intransigence on that
particular subject."
We looked at him some more.
"If he were to take up a winter hobby," he continued, "he could
stop being intransigent and enjoy things more."
Even Herb was staring at him now.
"I usually enjoy a proclivity in that direction," said Herb, "but
winter is pretty boring, so maybe I really should be intransigent on
this point."
"Well, Herb," said Dud, "even though you might have a proclivity
this season for being intransigent on your attitude about winter,
you could kinda ease up and consider a hobby. That way you'd be
showing a proclivity for transigence."
"Transigence?" said Doc. "I thought those were people who lived
under bridges. You might want to look that one up, Dud."
Dud blushed as we laughed.
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"Say Dud?" said Steve, the cowboy. "Wasn't 'proclivity' last month's
word?"
"Yes," said Dud, "and I believe I've used it a couple of dozen
times already."
"And now this month's word is 'intransigence,' right?"
Dud nodded.
"Well then," said Doc, "it looks like you are going to have a
proclivity for saying 'intransigence' this month. That's a veritable
plethora of proclivity my friend."
Dud pulled out a pencil and grabbed a napkin.
"How do you spell it, Doc?"
"Spell what?"
"Plethora."
We just groaned. Sometimes education can be ugly.
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