05-09-2008, 10:28 AM | #46 |
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Keeping up... oh yes, I was discussing an adjuvant with my neurologist just the other day.
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05-09-2008, 10:43 AM | #47 |
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"The" defenestration was probably the funniest thing my class learned in high school history. I've never forgotten that story - even though I've forgotten most of my classmates and the teacher's name.
My personal favorite words are common: Eleven and Twelve (not 11 & 12) Nothing else in the language, IMHO, expresses so few words and math expressions at the same time. |
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05-09-2008, 11:34 AM | #48 |
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I've been reading the Horatio Hornblower series off and on (have to read them on paper so ...).
I've learned a large number of terms that we use commonly in English have strong nautical roots. Just as one example: I had no idea what a scuttlebutt actually was -- imagine my surprise when I found out it was actually a CENSORED! |
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I guess the modern place to get the scuttlebutt is at the modern version of the scuttlebutt, leading one to assume that is how the phrase got coined. Except that the modern office no longer has a modern version of the scuttlebutt all that often. Except in commercials.
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They have their own blog Gray and Red, A squirrel Journal.
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05-09-2008, 03:15 PM | #51 |
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Anyone here suffer from Koro?
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05-09-2008, 03:17 PM | #52 |
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Have you seen my avatar?? I mean, there's a reason Marvin is sooo depressed.
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05-09-2008, 03:26 PM | #53 |
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Poooooor Marvin. Huggggs anyway. Make sure you only defenestrate those dictionaries, and not thy-self.
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05-09-2008, 03:37 PM | #54 |
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Part of the problem is that nothing depends on Marvin. [What, too subtle? Nah, they'll get it.]
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05-09-2008, 03:59 PM | #55 |
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Yeah, but don't you remember the Dear Abby finding that women are just as pleased to "just cuddle" ? But perhaps Marvin himself isn't pleased.
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blanket ... wet ... towel ... sucking on a corner of the towel ... nutrients ... blergh!
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HarryT was all Latin on us, and I was like knowing Latin can confuse sometimes, like knowing "depends" means "to hang down from", and then referred to how that made "Depends" such an awful name for adult diapers, then mores was "Koro?" and that brought it full circle. Sheesh, MR needs to hire you an assistant who can give you daily summaries of all the [U.S.] threads. |
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05-09-2008, 06:27 PM | #59 |
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Have all ways like the word defenestrate, being of Czech descent (ha ha), and learning that my people dealt with those who ate their egg from the wrong side.
In keeping with the thread, I finally learned what "plasma" means beyond the medical profession, and that one day I could have plasma windows. @ Taylor: Are you implying that my Austrian friend and I are too free & easy with the results of our erudition? |
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By no means, to my mind anyway. I have a button that says "Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac". Course I also have one that says "2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2".
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