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A spath behind every bush

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March 15, 2011 //  by Donna Andersen//  340 Comments

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I wrote an article not long ago about settling on a name for the personality disorder that we spend our time here talking about. I suggested using “sociopath” as a general term for exploitative people. Many of us have taken to shortening this term to “spath.”

Well, a Lovefraud reader “Justdreamin” informs us that “spath” is taken. She saw it on a flower pot, and sent us the photos.

It turns out that “spath” is a shortened version of “spathiphyllum,” which is the botanical name for the peace lilly, a common houseplant.

We might have to come up with a new name. If I were a beautiful peace lily, I wouldn’t want to share a name with the nasty predators.

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  1. ElizabethBennett

    May 20, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    Hens-is that when it’s supposed to happen? I wonder what that significance is and who started this?

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  2. hens

    May 20, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    it’s all over the web and TV – google doomsday may21 – some idjut televangilist….are you ready?

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  3. Ox Drover

    May 20, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    Hens, Yea,, I was talking to son D about that and Jesus said that even HE didn’t know the date or hour…and someone asked this prophet nut-job why HE KNEW if Jesus didn’t and he said that it was because Jesus didn’t have the technology we have today so he couldn’t figure it out scientifically! LOL ROTFLMAO HEE HEE CHOKE SNORT, SNARK! Oh, my! Jesus didn’t have enough technology but He could raise the dead and walk on water, but He needed more technology to predict doomsday! LOL ROTFMAO Oh, my!

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  4. ElizabethBennett

    May 20, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    My friend just facebooked me from Thailand on vacation and is a day ahead of us and nothing happened. He said tomorrow will be fine-no worries!

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  5. ElizabethBennett

    May 20, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    OMG Oxy that’s really hilarious! :):):)

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  6. super chic

    May 20, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    ditto from me, that is hilarious!

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  7. Ox Drover

    May 20, 2011 at 11:23 pm

    YOu know I always wonder how these people who have predicted the 2nd coming for so many times and of course it never happened, how they explain to their followers that their date was off. LOL

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  8. hens

    May 20, 2011 at 11:49 pm

    and we have to share the world with ( these people) and the ( followers ) thats scarier than the 2nd coming

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  9. Hope to heal

    May 21, 2011 at 12:18 am

    Hens ~ yep, I think you’re right… sharing the world with these whack-jobs is wayyyy scarier

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  10. hens

    May 21, 2011 at 12:46 am

    how r u tonite h2h?

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