Also it remembers your 'place' in the thread. Next time you log on, you don't have to re-read all the same old gumpth all over again.

to knock up printed sheets

Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.

Part hereof hath been discovered by himself, and some by humane indagation: which though magnified as fresh inventions unto us, are stale unto his cognition.