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Kerry, John
John Kerry botched a Bush punch line so badly, that it may qualify as the political gaffe of the year.

Speaking to college students in Pasadena, California, Kerry said, "You know, education -- if you make the most of it -- you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Here's the joke as it was supposed to be delivered: "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush."

—Information from About.com,
"Political Humor; John Kerry's Botched Joke",
by Daniel Kurtzman; Thursday, November 2, 2006.
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Darton, Mike and John Clark
The Macmillan Dictionary of Measurement by Mike Darton and John Clark; Macmillan Publishing Company; New York; 1994.
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fumimania, fumimaniac; fumiphobia, fumiphobiac: created by John G. Robertson
The terms, capnomania, fumimania are all coined terms that mean "obsessive or uncontrollable desires or habits of smoking one or more tobacco products" (especially cigarettes, but they may include cigars, pipes, etc.) all of which also can be defined as "tobacco addictions".

They were coined by John G. Robertson in 2002 for his book: An Excess of Phobias and Manias, published in 2003, because they were unavailable in any dictionaries or other known sources to express these conditions.

The terms capno- comes from Greek and fumi- comes from Latin; both of which refer to various kinds of "smoke" or "fumes".

See the pages at this Capnomania-Fumimania, Part 1 for the poem, "The Ballad of Salvation Bill" and other pages about the problems of smoking from the past to the present.

You may see similar words (capnomania, capnomaniac, capnophobia, capnophobiac) which were also created by John Robertson at this capno- unit of words.

Poem: The Blind Men and the Elephant by John Godfrey Saxe
A popular poem about the differences of perceptions regarding an elephant as expressed by six blind men.
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Harrison, John (1693-1776)
An English horologist and instrument maker.

He made the first chronometers that were accurate enough to allow the precise determination of longitude at sea, and so permit reliable and safe navigation over long distances.

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Arnold, John (1736-1799) & repeater
An English horologist. He first made his name as the maker of a very small half-quarter repeater for King George III, but later became known for his chronometers.

A "repeater" is a clock or watch that can be made to repeat its latest chime when someone presses a spring or it is also defined as a type of timepiece that has the ability, controlled by a button or a pull-cord, to repeat the last chime-hour struck.

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