BS: Check Out Our Forum

Subject: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Santa
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 07:21 AM

Every time I click on this to check out, I check in. So to check in, I have to check out. Am I the only one confused?

Don't Americans have check out tills in their supermarkets?

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:38 AM

yes - though "checkout counter" would be a more familiar form to us.

"Check out" in American-ese is equivilant to "Have a look at"

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Amos
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 12:40 PM

Santa:

"Check this out" is a fairly recent (last five-ten years) expression from the young, meaning to look it over, investigate it, eyeball it, scope it out, etc. With some forums you have to check in to the forum before you can check out the forum. Check?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 12:52 PM

Amos? the phrase was in current use when I was in High School. That was quite a few years more then 5 or 10

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Amos
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:06 PM

Sorry, Mario -- I don't believe you. I have seen your picture and you aren't a day over 28.

A


Oh, all right. All right!! 30 years tops.

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Wolfgang
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:11 PM

Einchecken, durchchecken, auschecken.

Mein Arzt hat mich durchgecheckt
Ich muss das erst noch auschecken.

If we even conjugate it already in German, it must be old.

What had puzzled me on the Mudcat site for a wee moment was that the filter actually isn't out when you click on 'filter out'.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:12 PM

hell - my *diploma* is older then that Amos!

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:13 PM

In Alaska when we say 'the lights are out', chances are we're not talking about bulbs.

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Wolfgang
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 01:17 PM

Once, nearly the whole CSSR icehockey team had names ending in 'check' (whatever your English transliteration is) which makes a lot of sense for Czechs and the reporter was heard saying "...Franticzech, Holyczech, Bodilczech, crosscheck!"

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Peace
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 03:55 PM

Check in--hotel, airline, conference

Check out--hotel

Check out (be careful with the transitivity on this one because it is used with a phrase) the ________ on her, him

Check it out--after understanding the pronominal referent

Check--got it or I agree

Cheque--thing that comes back from the bank

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 06:36 PM

You missed out "check up" (not to be confused with "chuck up")

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:09 PM

some folks here seem to have a checkered past*! and present, too...

*means roughly, containing black areas (like a checker board) of questionable moral behavior

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:31 PM

a chukkaed past would mean you used to play polo.

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Burke
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:36 PM

The worst is that library compuer systems designate a book that is checked out as "charged" that means when it comes back it is "discharged." No one ever understands this, but the manuals for the computer systems use these terms. The instructions end up being rewritten locally. Why they do not just call it check-in or return is beyond me.

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Peace
Date: 17 Nov 03 - 10:56 PM

McGH: Tried water polo once. Damn near drowned the horse.

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: rangeroger
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 12:51 AM

Brucie, doesn't a cheque come from a banque?

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Deda
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 12:55 AM

Check into it. I'll check around. It's time for my annual check-up.

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: open mike
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 03:30 AM

check, czech, cheque
what you say when doing
a sound check on a mike.

so i guess a checker would
be a sound technician, but
a chukar is a game bird
like a quail or grouse

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: rangeroger
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 09:43 PM

What about chukka boots?

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Amos
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 09:46 PM

Burke:

Computer programmers are always writing things from their own point of view instead of the users; to them it makes sense that a book being carried on the records (loaned out) is charged because the register is loaded with the books data, and the record will be carried until discharged. It makes sense electronically also. Just humanly obscure. Typical geeks.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: GUEST,pdc
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 10:16 PM

Oh dear. I wish I hadn't had a scotch before dinner, then wine with it, before reading this thread. I'm confused...

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 10:23 PM

I've stopped checking things out. I'm an exchecquer. sp?

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Peace
Date: 18 Nov 03 - 10:25 PM

rangerover: In Quebec, yep. In Alberta, nope. Good eye. Never noticed that before.

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: annamill
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 10:15 PM

BAD TASTE WARNING! DON'T READ IF SENSITIVE!

What do you call an abortion in Czechoslavakia(sp)??

Boo... A cancelled Czech...

Sorry..

love, Annamill

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: Mickey191
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 10:31 AM

What about the _final_ checkout? To stop breathing.

Used to be the euphemism-haven't heard it much lately.

Subject: RE: BS: Check Out Our Forum
From: muppett
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 10:46 AM

AND CHECK MATE