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You know, he may have had an ... er, avuncular , implicitly sexual and probably inappropriate relationship that was, alas, never actually, physically consummated ...
A WP front-pager reports that the newly elected president of Indonesia, Abdurrahman Wahid, is helping calm the country's unsettled political climate with an avuncular style.
Ginsburg is also heard boasting "I truly am the avuncular Mr. Ginsburg," and he condescendingly predicts that "the American people will let" President Clinton "limp to the end of his term."
For the record, Chatterbox has never done anything avuncular, though it tried once in college ...
Mighty avuncular of you, Mr. G!