XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english   
   From: HenHanna@NewsGrouper   
      
   >>>  Historically and in older English slang, knark could also mean a   
   hard-hearted or savage person, but this usage is now largely outdated.   
      
      
      
      A very knice kman told me this knarly, gnarly tale:   
      
                I was in  Addis Abeba (አዲስ አበባ) (which means "New   
   Flower")   
      and some  Smyrna merchant approached me and talked to me   
      in demotic French, and also in Amharic,  ቁም (Qum!)   
      
           While the knarkish knark dealer knelt nervously near the knotted   
   knapsack,   
        the knight knocked on the knoll, knowing the knotty knowledge   
         of the kingdom's knaves-cum-knives might soon knock the knickers off   
         any knucklehead knowingly navigating the knurled knoll.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)