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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Liz the Squeak Date: 07 Aug 07 - 12:28 AM Did I get 100? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: JennyO Date: 07 Aug 07 - 12:34 AM Yes Liz, but I got the 101 pinwheel with the little pin in the middle of the 0! Meanwhile, for Azizi - Here ya go! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Liz the Squeak Date: 07 Aug 07 - 01:09 AM But MINE was in context to the thread title, and not just counting! LTS : ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Amos Date: 07 Aug 07 - 02:25 AM Azizi: Thing of the angle brackets as marking the containers. The front end bracket starts the effect (bold, underline, italic, strikeout, etc) and the bracket after the text ends the container. The only difference between the front and the back bracket is the front one contains just the letter b (or i or u or s) and the back one contains the same letter with a slash in front of it...NOT a backslash. This kind:/. Start italics = i. End italics = /i. Underline: u and /u. Bold: b and /b. Strikeout: s and /s. Always putting them inside the angle brackets. See? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: GUEST,PMB Date: 07 Aug 07 - 03:38 AM What happened to the post that gave the instructions for writing in in italics or bold font? I forgot to sign it, though owned it a couple of posts down. Now they have this "policy" of not allowing anonymous posts, they are enforcing it with all the zeal of a teenage traffic warden who's just grown his first Hitler moustache, whether the post is helpful, neutral or abusive. Nobody knows what problem the policy is supposed to solve, or how it solves it. But that's probably a frequently asked, though infrequently answered, question. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 07 Aug 07 - 06:28 AM Thanks for the help, guys and gals! Hopefully, I've gotten it right this time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 07 Aug 07 - 06:47 AM Hip Hip Hooray!!! I'm gonna have fun doing this. Learn a new skill! That's how yah keep the old brain cells alert or grow new ones! ** Now they have this "policy" of not allowing anonymous posts, they are enforcing it with all the zeal of a teenage traffic warden who's just grown his first Hitler moustache, whether the post is helpful, neutral or abusive. -snip- Yep, PMB. It's sad* isn't it? {That's a rhetorical question} Hmmm. That could be the title of a whole 'nuther thread. Does someone wanna start that one? It might be interesting. * These types of actions evoke other emotions in me in addition to "sad". But I'll refrain from going there now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 07 Aug 07 - 07:58 AM Moving right along, I'd like to say that its been interesting to learn the tidbits found in this thread about geographic names such as the pronunciation of geographic names, the use of European city names in the USA, Australia, & elsewhere, and the fact that London, England, and Paris, France is considered redundant. Special thanks to Uncle_DaveO, autolycus, Rowan, Darowyn, DMcG, Celtaddict for their posts on this subject. And if I forgot anyone who posted to this thread on this subject, I'm sorry. My thanks go to you, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 07 Aug 07 - 08:12 AM Here's some other questions that have occurred to me: How many members does Mudcat have? Is there some place on this site that gives that information? Also, how many members and regular guests actively post on this forum? {I suppose there would have to be some agreement about what the meaning of active is. Say that means a person usually posts to a Mudcat thread at least twice a day, five days a week {though it seems to me that there are a number of Mudcat members and regular guests who do far more posting than that. I'm curious about how many members/regular guests would you say that is?}. In addition, it seems that there are far more Mudcat members and Mudcat regular* guests who regularly post to the BS threads than who regularly posts to the music/above the line threads. Is that other people's sense, too? *Sorry for all the "regulars" and "regularlies". But I couldn't think of another adjective to use. I started posting on the Mudcat music threads and still post above the line about as much as I post to the BS threads. How 'bout you? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 07 Aug 07 - 08:22 AM Oops! I just re-read my comment "...the fact that London, England, and Paris, France is considered redundant. Not to mention my incorrect grammar, I didn't mean to imply that those cities are "redundant". I meant that I had learned that when referring to these cities, giving the nation's name after the name of those specific cities is considered redundant {by folks in Europe, anyway}. I hope that I didn't offend any folks who live in those cities. Sorry for my misuse of the English language. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 07 Aug 07 - 08:53 AM Hi Rowan, Ref Frankie Laine, I think you are confusing him with Guy Mitchell. It was Mitchell who sang 'She Wears Red Feathers' and 'One of the Roving Kind'. Frankie Laine was a big man with a big voice who had hits with songs like 'I Beleive' and 'Jezebel'. He was also known for singing the theme tunes to western movies such as 'Champion, The Wonder Horse'. Guy Mitchell was a favourite of mine, His songs were folky in a pop sort of way and he had a high clear voice. Definitely different to most pop acts of the time. His 'Roving Kind' was indeed a version of the Fireship ballad. he was a little to early for the folk revival. Had he come along a bit later his voice and straight ahead style might have stood him well in folk music. Not sure, but I believe both men are dead now. Burl. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: autolycus Date: 07 Aug 07 - 10:59 AM Guy died 1999; Frankie died feb '07. frankie was also famous for singing the themes of the films High Noon and Blazing Saddles , a gentle self-parody. This demonstrates another upside to getting older. Infr.As.Qu.(to self) That thing I just/always criticise you for. How am I like that? Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: TheSnail Date: 07 Aug 07 - 01:17 PM Azizi Okay. So that's what TheSnail meant in his 02 Aug 07 - 06:24 PM post Yes. Sorry if I was a bit blunt but it's been a bit of a hobby horse with me since I was told off by an American for not saying which Lewes when I plugged an event in my home town. If I'd meant Lewes, Delaware, I'd have said so. Thanks George for explaining it so diplomatically. In the meantime, here's a challenge for you. Bryan the Snail |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 07 Aug 07 - 05:50 PM A challenge?! I'm not sure, but it seems logical that |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 07 Aug 07 - 05:56 PM Nope. Okay. Lemme try again. Will this work? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Cluin Date: 07 Aug 07 - 06:10 PM If you say London here in Ontario, you have to say London, England if that's what you mean. Otherwise we will think you are referring to London, Ont. There is a Paris, Ontario as well, but it's a small town so no confusion would arise unless you lived near it. And Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener many years ago. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 07 Aug 07 - 06:13 PM ** I confess that when my first idea didn't work, I cheated by googling "HTML". Here's the website I found: http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/ Not that it matters, but substituting parenthesis for brackets, here's the first idea that I used: beginning{r) and ending with (/r} But, of course, this idea was WRONG!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Rowan Date: 07 Aug 07 - 06:32 PM Thanks for setting me right Burl. Now, why would I confuse Frankie Laine wirh Guy Mitchell? Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Cluin Date: 07 Aug 07 - 07:54 PM If they can send a man to the moon, how come they can't send a man to the moon anymore? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Aug 07 - 08:22 PM Here's one which is very infrequently asked although I myself have asked it on two occasions, albeit many moons ago. Once was at the "Mouse's Ear" in Knoxville and the other in a joint on North 41 in Orlando (both are "Table Dancing" establishments. How about if I give you a ten spot to KEEP your clothes ON? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Amos Date: 07 Aug 07 - 08:39 PM Can my best girlfriend join us? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: frogprince Date: 07 Aug 07 - 08:51 PM Could you recommend a doctor who's good at adult circumcisions? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 07 - 09:31 PM My friend was born with one eye lid. When he was circumcised they grafted it on. He's fine. Just a little cockeyed. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 07 Aug 07 - 09:34 PM So, my question is... When a guy is born with one eye lid, what can be done? art |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Cluin Date: 08 Aug 07 - 12:09 AM What the hell is this? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: frogprince Date: 08 Aug 07 - 09:30 AM How long do they deep-fry the foreskins before they sack them up and label them as "pork rinds"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: autolycus Date: 08 Aug 07 - 10:20 AM rowan, you're the only one who can answer that. Unless it was 'cos they were both popular in the early - mid 50s. Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Rowan Date: 08 Aug 07 - 06:23 PM Thanks, Ivor; another of those senior moments I suspect. Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Amos Date: 08 Aug 07 - 07:19 PM I bet the surgeon was annoyed at losing his tip, though. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Rowan Date: 08 Aug 07 - 10:39 PM A story from my days at Mawson was told about Repstat (the replacement for Wilkes that was later named Casey) was that the station doctor knew all the medical details of the (entirely male) expeditioners and consequently knew who was and who wasn't circumcised. Over drinks in the mess he frequently advertised his ability to perform such an operation with "I only charge a slab", meaning two dozen cans of (rationed) beer, the universal ANARE currency. After a while and still early in the year, the cook decided to take him up on his offer, providing he could keep the detached item in a jar; "i'm out of circulation for the year anyway" was his justification. After the op. he kept the jar, labelled and preserving the item in ethanol, prominently displayed on a shelf in the kitchen. It became the subject of ongoing jokes. The cook was also often the butt of jokes about his cooking ability until one evening, quite late in the year, when he served up a magnificent stew that was universally praised. When he was asked what he had done to improve his cooking he said nothing but just pointed to the shelf; the jar was there, in its usual place, but empty. Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Liz the Squeak Date: 09 Aug 07 - 01:53 AM Rowan - warn a body before you post stories like that one!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Rowan Date: 09 Aug 07 - 06:27 PM And spoil it? Nah! Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: autolycus Date: 10 Aug 07 - 05:52 PM How far does the fault lie with the public? Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: autolycus Date: 11 Aug 07 - 12:10 PM Was that too provocative or not provocative enough? Hm? Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Rowan Date: 12 Aug 07 - 06:15 PM Autolycus, I suspect your "Was that too provocative or not provocative enough?" might qualify as an infrequently asked question, but I suggest your "Hm?" is one of the most frequently-asked questions going. Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: JohnInKansas Date: 12 Aug 07 - 10:29 PM London, England, and Paris, France is considered redundant ... ... My DeLorme CD roadmap shows 17 "Londons" in the US in: AL(2), AR, CA, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN(2), OH(2), PA, TN, TX, WI, WV. Paris could mean any of 27 places in: AR, CA, IA(3), ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NH, NY, OH(2), OR(2), PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI Even Cairo and Rome each appears in 22 different places here. For a large portion of the US population, when you say "Rome" without specific other qualification, it always means Rome, NY - the locale for Griffiss AFB, which is a major training, research, and maintenance base where, seemingly, everyone who's ever been in the US Air Force has "done some time." John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: autolycus Date: 15 Aug 07 - 12:48 PM Regarding Rome, John; apart from US citizens who are Catholic, presumably. Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Rowan Date: 15 Aug 07 - 06:44 PM JiK and Ivor have just reminded me of some of the notions I encountered when I spent six months in Columbia, SC. In Oz, we're used to being distant from most of what people in other places regard as the centre of their various universes and we have to learn to understand 'where they're coming from', or at least where they think they're coming from. Having travelled in some interesting places outside Oz and even having visited some of the centres of the known universe (but not yet the USA) I was familiar with various notions of 'the centre vs the periphery' and how that affected both those people and my own sense of location. It wasn't until I'd been in SC for a while that I became intimately aware of the particularly American version of Washington DC as the modern equivalent of Imperial Rome, with some aspects also of The Forbidden Palace in Beijing. It was only a couple of trivial items that pulled the scales from my eyes; both were part of the daily dead forest that lands on so many front porches in the US. One was describing Barossa Valley wines as the best wines from New Zealand and the other was a Lands End description of a woollen jumper (as we call them) as being made of the very finest Italian merino wool. For those not in the know, the Barossa Valley is just north of Adelaide in South Australia (I've not calculated how many thousand nautical miles west of New Zealand) and Italians wouldn't recognise a merino if it covered them (obscure agricultural jest) but they do buy our fine micron wool and spin really fine woollen yarn to make lovely clothes. Which they sell to the US and elsewhere. And most of the people reading the mail order catalogues know very little (and some care even less) where they come from so long as they can have them. The same thing happened in Rome (the one with the Vatican) and is one of the marks of an imperial (not to suggest 'imperious') outlook. And before anyone gets too hot under the collar about my critique, which meant not unkindly, most Americans can't really be blamed. The social constructs by which they as individuals engage with the wider community highlight the local several orders of magnitude more powerfully than any engagement with the wider world outside USA. And this means it is very difficult for most of them (mere mortals like most of us) to come to grips with 'trivial' details of that outside world. And on top of that the differences in scale are huge; even in 1992 there were more military veterans (27 million, I recall) in the USA. That was almost 50% more than the entire population of Australia at that time. So I suppose it's natural that not as many people in the USA as us outsiders might wish have the familiarity with and acceptance of the outside world that we say we'd like (and we've got our own ignorami too). Most 'catters I've read, by virtue of their interests in traditions and sources, I suspect, seem to be blessed. Long may it be so. Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: GUEST,Keinstein Date: 16 Aug 07 - 05:25 AM ignorami: The art of folding pieces of paper torn from mediaeval manuscripts? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 16 Aug 07 - 05:09 PM It seems to me that this is a purely American idiosyncrasy. In the UK, if we hear Washington mentioned, the vast majority think first of Washington D.C. I would suggest that the only people who would not might be those who live within ten miles of Washington, County Durham, and even they would only assume the local reference if it was mentioned by local rather than national media. The same would apply to most major cities. In the US the first thought seems to be of the local place, even in the case of cities as large and important as London and Paris. The English have often been accused of being insular in their attitude to the outside world, but I suspect that the average UK citizen has a greater knowledge of the outside world than his average American cousin, and also a greater interest in it. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 16 Aug 07 - 09:44 PM Don(Wyziwyg)T, with regard to your comment that The English have often been accused of being insular in their attitude to the outside world, but I suspect that the average UK citizen has a greater knowledge of the outside world than his average American cousin, and also a greater interest in it., maybe, maybe not. I think it depends on the meaning of the term the outside world. I see that you said "suspect" as I don't know how research could be done to determine whether what you say is true or not. But-here's a question for you [an infrequently asked question, no less]- if what you suspect is true, what are the reasons why the average UK citizen has a greater knowledge of the outside world than his average American cousin? The mass media? The education system? I'm curious to "hear" your response/s. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 16 Aug 07 - 09:49 PM Oh, btw, and fwiw, when I and people I know refer to Washington, DC we usually say "DC". {pronounced "Dee See"}. DC stands for the District of Columbia, but I don't know anyone who says "Washington, District of Columbia". When we are referring to a place called "Washington", we mean the US state. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: GUEST,PMB Date: 17 Aug 07 - 08:51 AM Mine turns to the left... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Date: 17 Aug 07 - 02:07 PM Hi Azizi. I always use "suspect" and "suggest" rather than more positive terms, when I am expressing an opinion as opposed to stating a fact. I believe that the answer to your second question lies in the essential difference between our cultures. The English have for centuries had a particular penchant for getting out and about and exploring the world at large (and, truth to tell, grabbing large chunks of it for their own), which of course is why America is America rather than New Spain. The Americans, on the contrary, have for many years tended toward isolationism. While allowing the people of the world at large to come to them, they were reluctant to become involved in what happened outside. Thus "Local" would be of greater interest than "Global". As I said, purely my thoughts and opinions, and worth no more than whatever notice others choose to bestow. Don T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: autolycus Date: 18 Aug 07 - 06:31 AM Hi Azizi, We don't need to make heavy weather of this. By "the outside world", I think we usually mean 'the world outside one's own country'. If the English know a little more about the outside world than our American cousins, it's partly because we are a small country (so that the OW impinges on us; partly because we get a lot from the US, so we're aware of the OW that way; partly because we're not self-sufficient. The US is far more self-sufficient (except in apple juice, apparently; oh, and maybe in oil?). Our cousins are also encouraged by many of the US institutions to believe that American is best in everything (and everything theat America is not best at doesn't get on the dial, e.g. formerly soccer), so who needs from the rest of the world. Except to teach them English, how to go WalMart, wear jeans, have democracy, and basically stop being different. So any lingering ignorance the average Joe (and Joess?) has about 'the outside world' is a lot based on a no-need-to-know basis. Confusingly, the Americans are famed for travelling, especially to Europe as tourists, and, as in Shrub's case, for virtually never going abroad (as we wittily call it over here.) Both the average English and Americans are pretty insular. Here, for example, there is sufficiently little about abroad on tv that I've heard of someone who thought there were no houses in Africa. That's because when Africa's countries get to the screen, it's usually about famine or war, so it is hard to tell from the goggle box that there is enormous development in that continent. And many get most of their, for want of a better word, 'knowledge', from the mass communications media. Incidentally, anyone who "doesn't know anyone that ignorant of geography" is saying a lot about themselves and the types they attract to their circle. And the types they seive out. Unconsciously. Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: TheSnail Date: 18 Aug 07 - 06:46 AM Don(Wyziwyg)T The English have for centuries had a particular penchant for getting out and about and exploring the world at large (and, truth to tell, grabbing large chunks of it for their own), which of course is why America is America rather than New Spain. Eh? America is named for Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 18 Aug 07 - 09:26 AM Hi,Don(Wyziwyg)T . You wrote I believe that the answer to your second question lies in the essential difference between our cultures." Which question was that? {wwhich is probably a frequently asked question}. ** Hi autolycus. What's happening? ** I'm not even gonna ask what PMB meant by his 17 Aug 07 - 08:51 AM post. That used to be a very common nickname you know. But times change, and the association with Cheney is certainly not helping that nickname. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: autolycus Date: 18 Aug 07 - 02:29 PM well, Azizi, i just played Mahler 8 under Kubelik; it's cloudy here in sidewaystown Norwich; a lot of people have died in an earthquake in Peru; US banks have been given a lot of money because they didn't have enough !!!!!!!!!!!!!!; Japan's having a heatwave; and the people of Gloucester (or Tewksbury) have been having a protest march about plans to build loads more homes in flood-plains, not by hoodies, single mums, drug addicts or people on the dole, but builders, the government and other upright folk. is that what you meant by 'What's happening?'? Or have I got the wrong end of the cheese? Bestest of wishes to my first 'catter helper. Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 18 Aug 07 - 03:07 PM Hey, Ivor! Fyi, "What's happenin?" is a largely retired {at least among African Americans} colloquial greeting that basically means the same thing as "How are you?" and How'r ya doing and "What's up?"- meaning that these are frequently asked questions that are usually answered with a perfunctory remark like "Alright" or "Okay" or "Fine". Though I don't at all mind you taking me literally, in day to day greetings, especially when people are greeting each other in a quick & in hurry kind of way, they don't usually share the good, bad and the ugly details of what is going on with them or what is going on in the world. One response to "What's happenin? was- "Well, things have been rough but at least we're still in the land of the living". That's my response today to that question. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions From: Azizi Date: 18 Aug 07 - 03:29 PM Btw, Ivor, what are "hoodies?" Is this the same thing as "hoodlums" meaning teens or young adults who are involved in {or who people think they are involved in} gangs or who engage in other anti-social behavior? Come to think of it, two words some Americans use as a referent for hoodlums are "gangbangers" and/or "hoods". But in the USA "hoodies" are a type of sweatshirt. Here's a definition for "hoodie" that was posted on urbandictionary.com by by Sylense May 6, 2004 : Hoodie "sweatshirt with a hood and a very large pocket in front, capable of carrying, but not limited to, walkman and headphone, candy being smuggled into movie theatres, pencil and notebook, pet snake that your parents don't know about, and certain less-legal substances that you don't want people finding. Considered a signature by some, so not something you want anyone else in your area to have a similar one of. Worn around waist when too hot for otherwise, NEVER worn around neck, and if -for whatever reason- you're not wearing ANYTHING, they can be flung on the floor nearby wherever you are. Not generally meant for either sex, although if part of a couple, the dominant may prefer that the less-dominant wear his/her hoodie. If difficulty finding a unique hoodie, look in touristy shops next time you go on vacation Yes, I KNOW I'm late, leave me alone!" she said, tightening her hoodie around her waist while frantically looking for her second boot. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hoodie ** Hoodies look like this. |
