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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/23/2019 10:33:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		The term 'double u' is an English invention for the letter, and English is a hybrid of almost everything.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 12:31:27 AM   
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The term 'double u' is an English invention for the letter, and English is a hybrid of almost everything.

Hybrid implies you know the mixture - English is a mongrel language, morphing as we watch.

Keeping up with the times is one thing, but most kids now do not get the power of the language which is best taught by reading books by skilled wordsmith authors.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 1:27:21 AM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 1:42:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		We have a language, but it contains no regular consonants. It consists of mainly ooohs and uhs, and the order they come in is essential to understanding their meaning. In some dialects there occur yai yai yais and in those cases you have the consonant y. I have heard tell of other dialects where some gorn have evolved to use the dental "doh", but those people are unintelligible to me. I just have to draw the line somewhere.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 1:59:03 AM   
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Why did they dye themselves green from Purple and cut off their tails?

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 2:05:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't know where you're from, but here in Missouri we have lizards that, as a defense mechanism, if you grab them by the tail, they drop their tails and run free, then later they regrow them. We just tired of regrowing them. Evolutionary wise it is more efficient and makes us superior. Unfortunately, we have not learned to grab these little rascally lizards by other body parts, so we only dine on their tails.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 2:08:13 AM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 2:15:56 AM   
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Do Gorns have a language? https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-treks-most-infamous-fistfight-is-still-the-purest-1833474595



That episode of Star Trek was actually Rocky to the nth power.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 4:02:54 AM   
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Do Gorns have a language? https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-treks-most-infamous-fistfight-is-still-the-purest-1833474595



That episode of Star Trek was actually Rocky to the nth power.

nth power? I thought Ents were only in the Lord of the Rings franchise? Does nth mean "warped"?

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 4:09:27 AM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/24/2019 9:39:12 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/29/2019 7:57:19 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/29/2019 8:10:22 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 3/31/2019 6:04:33 PM   
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While TDY out in Fort Huachuca, AZ a couple of rocket scientists had to take a jammer set over to Fort Bliss, TX for field testing. Didn't like the route the Army had picked for them. On their shortcut they hit an overpass, drove the AC units right into the transmitters. Oops.


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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/4/2019 12:53:31 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/4/2019 1:40:50 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/4/2019 6:24:11 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/5/2019 8:22:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bus exploding as it tries to enter a tunnel. The bus has it biogas tanks on the bus roof and it hits a beam just outside the tunnel that is there to stop to high vehicles from getting stuck in the tunnel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdAoknrHh2Y

Funny thing is, or perhaps sad, is that some think it is a hoax. Despite that there were plenty of witnesses. A badly wounded driver. And clean-up work took a week. So many could see the evidence of the explosion. After all, it happened at a central traffic hub in Stockholm.

The driver taking the film new that the bus was to high for the tunnel and tried to warn it, failed, and started filming. he thought it would just get stuck...


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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/8/2019 6:49:50 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/17/2019 4:57:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		A little announcement. A couple of friends of mine have been working for over 45 years on the translation below and they finally think they’ve got it right. They’ve essentially translated it uncounted times, finding the result insufficient each time and starting over nearly from scratch. It was a process of coming to really understand the material and figuring out how to say it in English, or specifically American English. I’m not recommending this to anyone, even in English the stuff just makes my brain hurt, but then I’m just a gorn. It isn’t actually available yet, we haven’t proofed the “galleys” yet. It’s scheduled to come out in September. Peter Fuss was born in Berlin in 1932 of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. They escaped before it was too late and came to New York.






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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/17/2019 5:45:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is a much more interesting article on the phenomenon of MahNaManNanology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_N%C3%A0_Mah_N%C3%A0



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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/17/2019 6:10:17 PM   
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This is a much more interesting article on the phenomenon of MahNaManNanology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_N%C3%A0_Mah_N%C3%A0



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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/17/2019 7:01:41 PM   
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This is a much more interesting article on the phenomenon of MahNaManNanology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_N%C3%A0_Mah_N%C3%A0



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My pleasure.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/17/2019 8:33:21 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/17/2019 9:17:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		I’ve recently been pondering the origins of the term “pear shaped”, or “to go pear shaped” for when things go wrong.
For example, scenario: outnumbered by the enemy, caught in poor defensive terrain and running low on ammunition
Tactical commander: “things are starting to go a bit pear shaped”
Why and when was the pear singled out to be the fruit of choice in this context?
I don’t think that the pear has a shape that is noticeably bad or wrong.
It’s not bent like a banana and there are many other fruits that look like their shape was designed by a 4 year old with a crayon that has eaten too much sugar.

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/17/2019 9:56:15 PM   
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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/17/2019 11:06:49 PM   
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I’ve recently been pondering the origins of the term “pear shaped”, or “to go pear shaped” for when things go wrong.
For example, scenario: outnumbered by the enemy, caught in poor defensive terrain and running low on ammunition
Tactical commander: “things are starting to go a bit pear shaped”
Why and when was the pear singled out to be the fruit of choice in this context?
I don’t think that the pear has a shape that is noticeably bad or wrong.
It’s not bent like a banana and there are many other fruits that look like their shape was designed by a 4 year old with a crayon that has eaten too much sugar.

Probably meant to refer to pear-shaped humans whose chests have dropped into their pelvic regions with the skin stretching to accommodate the volume - definitely a thing most people do not want to happen - and only partly because they don't want to be objects of gorn lust!

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RE: OT Thighs to ponder - 4/18/2019 12:10:39 AM   
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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/18/2019 1:05:02 AM   
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It's the day after Memorial Day. There are many other ponderous issues to consider, I thought I'd just present you with two.






Let us focus gentlemen on the appropriate topic for this thread …..

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RE: OT Things to ponder - 4/18/2019 1:23:10 AM   
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Here's one I can post in full. She liked horses (don't they all?).





Isn't everyone glad we're off that page with Ron Jeremy in it?

I think she's financially secure but she lives in a cabin somewhere in the Ozarks.

There's one flaw in this pic, those boots are a man's boots, too big for her, but she did like wearing very fashionable knee-high boots.


Another fine example of focus

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