platitude splinken DISCLAIMER: it is not nice to conduct social experiments on your family. I paw through a relative's simpering collection of chicken soup for the soul books. I pick out the easily pick-out-able platitudes, and constuct entire conversations with this person around the platitudes. It is especially fun to do this when said relative has been drinking. It really IS a Hallmark card world, kids. 001106 ... WingedSerpent the platitude is the refuge of the substantively bereft like when i was a kettle and the pot kept looking for new ways to call me "black" but, hey, these things happen 060714 ... wakko and yakko and dot chicken_soup_for_my_pole 060714 what's it to you? who go blather from