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RE: Oxymorons
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The absolute most amusing/dangerous version of which is the Thai "tuk-tuk." ......
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Richard: In analogy to "quad-carburetors" and similar usages, my first thought on a quad-bike was f......
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August 01, 2008 04:24
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*smiles* Yes, as is "pizza pie..." That's why S.E.C. regs only refer to a "tender."...
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July 30, 2008 18:49
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Valentine is quite correct. From Etymonline.com: "to offer formally," 1542, from M.Fr. tendre "to ......
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July 30, 2008 18:36
RE: Ancient Metal Elements (metaphorically)
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Recall that "quick" meant alive, as in "the quick and the dead." So too with the motion of mercury....
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July 21, 2008 19:20
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Regarding "Iron Curtain," Wiki claims: "Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels was the first t......
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July 19, 2008 19:14
RE: Ancient Metal Elements (metaphorically)
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I might have reserved the "-bottomed" construction for "lead," especially as regards government bure......
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July 19, 2008 19:11
RE: Ancient Metal Elements (metaphorically)
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Then there was St. John Chrysostom (347-407 AD), the "golden mouthed," a reference to his eloquence....
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July 17, 2008 04:29
RE: Obamacons
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Asa: You are mistaken. Only partisans have ever claimed the Second Amendment is solely a "collectiv......
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June 29, 2008 05:45
RE: Animals as Metaphors
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Important distinction: The albatross itself represents good luck. It was only when the mariner kille......
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May 02, 2008 07:40
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The old poem "The Three Ravens" ends: "God send every gentleman Such haukes, such hounds, and such ......
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March 20, 2008 05:30
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Hacking through statistics and train service, I revert to the initial theme of words-for-letters. A......
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March 12, 2008 06:41
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The newspapers report "the Mann Act has been used...in prostitution cases, although normally it was ......
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March 12, 2008 06:16
RE: Pregnancy, from Z to A
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From Kurt Vonnegut: He was a portly man, aslop with coffee, gravid with Danish pastry. Poor, lugubri......
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February 24, 2008 04:55
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Ludicrous - source of amusement. (Per Etymonline, sense of "ridiculous" from 1782.) + Lunacy - ins......
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January 18, 2008 09:36
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Resurrecting an old thread with a terrific new example from ......
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January 18, 2008 08:46
RE: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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"And shame it is, if a prest take keep, A shiten shepherde and clene sheep." In the sense of soiled......
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December 25, 2007 08:08
RE: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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Excellent observation. In Frye's scheme, mythic means god-like powers, the heroic has more control ......
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December 23, 2007 11:01
RE: Professions from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
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In "Anatomy of Criticism" Northop Frye proposed that literature moves in cycles, that it evolves (de......
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December 22, 2007 05:09
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From whence is the quote on the Colonel and Miss Vavasour? Note this from Wiki: "A vavasour, (also ......
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