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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2010 13:56:22 GMT
And only the other day Riot was showing off about having a calculator....
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Post by Weyland on Dec 9, 2010 14:27:52 GMT
And only the other day Riot was showing off about having a calculator.... Good point(s). I move that in future Riot gets the blame for everything blameworthy on this board. Think of the potential savings in this Age of Austerity! |
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Post by trubble on Dec 9, 2010 16:27:50 GMT
We know what we're fighting - we are fighting ourselves! Isn't it just a tad outlandish to claim that this arrest makes us worse than somewhere like Russia or China? ..china and russia dont pretend to be demorcratic or the cherish the notion of freedom of speech.....our system is hyporcritical I win. |
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Post by trubble on Dec 10, 2010 16:33:29 GMT
So we didn't have a word for today.... slackers. The word should be slackers.
I got a little configuration in at the last minute:
c/o The Madrigal Quizzy Thing.
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Post by everso on Dec 10, 2010 17:29:11 GMT
I'll beat you yet, LMH!!
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Post by trubble on Dec 11, 2010 9:24:00 GMT
www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/December 11, 2010 Word of the Day comitycomity \KAH-muh-tee\ DEFINITION noun : friendly civility : courtesy EXAMPLES In the interests of neighborhood comity, everyone agreed to a block-wide tag sale. "Two years after an election that seemed to portend a new era of comity, American politics has resumed what now appears to be its permanent condition of polarization, quite possibly worsened by widening rifts within the two major parties." -- From an essay by Sam Tanenhaus in The New York Times, October 24, 2010 DID YOU KNOW? "Our country soweth also in the field of our breasts many precious seeds, as … honest behavior, affability, comity," wrote English clergyman Thomas Becon in 1543. Becon's use is the earliest documented appearance of "comity" -- a word derived from Latin "comitas," meaning "courteousness" (and probably related to the Sanskrit word for "he smiles"). "Comity" is largely used in political and judicial contexts. Since 1862 "comity of nations" has referred to countries bound by a courteous relationship based on mutual recognition of executive, legislative, and judicial acts. And, in legal contexts, "comity" refers to the recognition by courts of one jurisdiction of the laws and judicial decisions of another.
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Post by trubble on Dec 11, 2010 9:27:15 GMT
But what the feck is a tag sale.
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Post by Weyland on Dec 11, 2010 10:10:49 GMT
December 11, 2010 Word of the Day comity |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 12, 2010 11:28:38 GMT
Colin Wilson has a book - a series, really - called Spider World, which is about giant spiders who have taken over the world. They are intelligent as well.
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Post by swl on Dec 12, 2010 13:23:57 GMT
Our country soweth also in the field of our breasts many precious seeds fnaar fnaar |
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Post by trubble on Dec 14, 2010 10:21:03 GMT
Fnarr is not a word. December 14, 2010 Word of the Day www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/bogus \BOH-gus\ DEFINITION adjective : not genuine : counterfeit, sham EXAMPLES Swl used a bogus word. DID YOU KNOW? You may know "bogus" as a slang word meaning "uncool" or simply "no good," (uncool? No, I did not know that...) but did you know that "bogus" has actually been a part of English since the early 1800s? Not only was the word coined then, it was actually doing some coining of its own, so to speak. Back then, a "bogus" was a machine used to make counterfeit coins. No one knows for sure how this coin-copying contraption got its name, but before long "bogus" had also become a popular noun for funny money itself or for a fraudulent imitation of any kind. The more general "phony" adjective followed shortly thereafter. (Having tried but failed to slip ''comity'' into any polite conversation, I hold out more hope for "bogus"). |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2010 11:22:15 GMT
'Bogus' used in the context of being uncool, was popularised as part of 'surf culture/ skateboard culture' where surfers and the like would often refer to something uncool as being 'totally bogus, duuuude.' it was used a lot in the Bill and Teds films starring Keanu Reeves, and in fact the second of the bill and teds films was called 'Bill and Teds Bogus journey'
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Post by everso on Dec 14, 2010 11:28:59 GMT
Oh I liked those Bill and Ted films. Keanu Reeves is a bit of a wooden actor, but my he's handsome.  Yes, they used to say 'bogus' a lot. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2010 11:32:17 GMT
i seem to recall Weyland is a big fan of Keanu, if i remember correctly...
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Post by everso on Dec 14, 2010 11:44:45 GMT
I suspect you jest.
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Post by Weyland on Dec 14, 2010 11:46:28 GMT
I wouldn't be trusting Merriam-Webster's shoddy products.
The big Oxford says this . . .
BOGUS n1 a
("b@Ug@s) [A cant word of U.S., about the origin of which many guesses have been made, and ‘bogus’ derivations circumstantially given.
Dr. S. Willard, of Chicago, in a letter to the editor of this Dictionary, quotes from the Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph of July 6 and Nov. 2, 1827, the word bogus as a n. applied to an apparatus for coining false money. Mr. Eber D. Howe, who was then editor of that paper, describes in his Autobiography (1878) the discovery of such a piece of mechanism in the hands of a gang of coiners at Painesville, in May 1827; it was a mysterious-looking object, and some one in the crowd styled it a ‘bogus’, a designation adopted in the succeeding numbers of the paper. Dr. Willard considers this to have been short for tantrabogus, a word familiar to him from his childhood, and which in his father's time was commonly applied in Vermont to any ill-looking object; he points out that tantarabobs is given in Halliwell as a Devonshire word for the devil. bogus seems thus to be related to bogy1, etc.]
†1. n. a. An apparatus for counterfeit coining. Obs.
1827 Painesville Tel. (Ohio) 6 July, That he never procured the casting of a Bogus at one of our furnaces. Ibid. 2 Nov. The eight or ten boguses which have been for some time in operation.
b. bogus press, machine = sense 1a.
1844 Spirit of Times (Philad.) 12 Oct. (Th.), A bogus press for making counterfeit money. 1850 Frontier Guardian (ed. O. Hyde) 23 Jan. (Th.), We employed that same Bill Hickman to ferret out a bogus press and a gang of counterfeiters.+A part of the bogus machine has been found.
†c. Counterfeit coin. Also Comb.
1842 Life in West 297 They had attempted to pass bogus (base coin). 1844 Nauvoo Neighbor 12 June (Th.), To bolster up the interests of blacklegs and bogus-makers. 1854 B. Young in Jrnl. Discourses I. 270 The Magicians of Egypt+produced a very good bogus, but it was not quite the true coin.
2. adj. Counterfeit, spurious, fictitious, sham: ‘originally applied to counterfeit coin’ (Webster).
1839 Mrs. Kirkland New Home xxxii. 212 The boxes+contained+half-dollars ‘principally bogus’. 1852 Hughes in J. Ludlow Hist. U.S. 338 This precious house of representatives—the bogus legislature, as it was at once called. 1857 Boston Daily Courier 12 June, The learned Judge took occasion to manifest his abhorrence of the use of slang phrases+by saying that he did not know the meaning of ‘bogus transactions’. 1859 ‘Dow, Jr.’ New Patent Sermons 216 Crocodile tears are bogus. 1866 Cornh. Mag. Nov. 582 A mere juggle, or as Americans would say, a ‘bogus’ parliament. 1874 M. Collins Frances III. 80 They've got some good money, as well as bogus notes. 1877 R. Giffen Stock Exch. Securities 65 A bogus Company+instead of paying dividends to its Shareholders, goes into Liquidation. 1878 Black Green Past. xxv. 202, I am not going to spend a penny in a bogus contest. 1892 G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits & Rev. (1932) 243 Mr. Frederic Harrison deliberately talked bogus Shelleyism to the reporters. 1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie xvi. 244, I also hoped they would show people here that the whole thing was bogus. 1942 E. Waugh Put out more Flags i. §6. 68 You+haven't got any of those bogus regional connections like the Scots and Irish and Welsh.
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("b@Ug@s) [Has been conjectured to be ad. F. bagasse sugar-cane refuse; but perhaps is the same word as prec.]
‘A liquor made of rum and molasses.’ Bartlett Dict. Amer.
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Post by Weyland on Dec 14, 2010 12:03:20 GMT
i seem to recall Weyland is a big fan of Keanu, if i remember correctly... Are you stalking me, Costy? Keanu "The Plank" Reeves is a good-looking lad, but actor is he not. He could take some lessons from Rod Stewart, who is a fine actor. His best performance was undoubtedly the birth scene in The Fly. Who could forget Rod's seamless portrayal of the maggot -- and completely without make-up. Eat your knot out, Keanu. |
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Post by trubble on Dec 15, 2010 20:41:29 GMT
Thank for all those gems of information. I managed a bogus on the Harbour for two points. Couldn't quite bring myself to use it in real time conversation.
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Post by trubble on Dec 15, 2010 20:43:38 GMT
www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/December 15, 2010 Word of the Day quincunx\KWIN-kunks\ DEFINITION noun: an arrangement of five things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and one in the middle. No chance. Even if I'd looked it up this morning. 
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Post by swl on Dec 15, 2010 22:24:45 GMT
Ooh - toughie. I've managed to get it into a debate on student riots though - "Anyway, I think the Police should show deference to the students and adapt their tactics accordingly. Instead of the crude kettling used on crusties, perhaps the Met could array themselves around students in a quincunx. I'm sure the more erudite English Lit students would appreciate the gesture." www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=7930893&post=104225418#p104225418 |
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