Post #210,091
6/6/05 5:07:26 PM
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Most interesting...
...was the noise emitted under braking by the front offside wheel of SWMBO's old Matiz.
It was as if there was a metal ring around the axle that spun with the axle under normal driving, but continued to spin at full speed as the vehicle slowed.
We never did get to the bottom of that one.
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Post #210,204
6/7/05 7:43:22 AM
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Can't you weird Brit-peeples say "left" and "right"?
...the front offside wheel... What, had it committed a zone error on the football (or ice hockey) field?!? One *so* wishes you people would catch up at least with the _twentieth_ century, and quit that stupid "nearside, offside" gibberish! ("Near" *what*, exactly? "Off" what, and do we care a fig?) There are a pair of eminently simple, clear and unambiguous words to tell which side a wheel is on: "Left" and "right". You're quite free to use them, without any royalty fees to pay or anything. HTH!
(Please don't think I'm annoyed because I don't know what you're talking about: I'm fairly sure this is horse terminology, just extended waaay past its useful life. I'm annoyed because you lot are *still gibbering on* in Horseish, whereas the rest of the world has left all that shit behind ages ago. Or, you want I should gibber Norse longboat terminology at you?)
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Post #210,206
6/7/05 8:13:52 AM
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Dear CRC
Foff, you nit-picking excessively-anal Scandalahoovian.
Love,
Peter.
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Post #210,273
6/7/05 2:31:43 PM
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I bet he has a really clean house!
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Post #210,399
6/8/05 7:49:41 AM
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Oh, bullcrap. So, silly vego-person, can *you*...
...can *you* tell us whether PeeWee was talking about the left or the right front wheel of his SO's car, some time when you're not too busy spouting cheapo-psych theories about the cleanliness or absence thereof(*) of my "house"(+)?
If not, then maybe you should think again about whom exactly you should be so eagerly agreeing with, here.
HTH!
(*): Hint 1: We have a teenager and two-year-old.
(+): Hint 2: Not all people can afford to live in houses of their own. When you rent just a bit of a big one, it's called a "flat" or an "apartment".
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Post #210,401
6/8/05 8:04:18 AM
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You need to turn up your humor detector. :-)
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Post #210,402
6/8/05 8:06:21 AM
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Stop being a knobhead, CRC.
I'd never thought I'd see YOU being thin-skinned.
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Post #210,406
6/8/05 8:23:26 AM
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He's not he is being CRC so leave him be
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Post #210,407
6/8/05 8:27:14 AM
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You first, PeeWee.
I don't think I was "being thin-skinned" either.
I just got a bit annoyed at mz Johnette-come-lately for mindlessly hacking away at the same (silly, stupid, and eternally annoying) "anal"-bullshit kerb that you, mr über-knobhead, had started. How fucking "funny" is that, really? Was anybody writhing on the floor from laughter at it? If so, I'd suggest it is they (these hypothetical writhers-on-the-floor), not I, who suffer from a humour deficiency(*).
Now as for you, my psychoanal(+)ytically inclined young Kemosabe, you'll stop being a knobhead in my book when you edit your post to use modern English in stead of feudal-era horsie-talk.
Until then, I feel *you* have no call to ask *me* to start or stop being anything.
HTH!
(*): Yes, Scott DK, that's you I'm talking about.
(+): Hnyuk, hnyuk, he said "anal"!
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Post #210,408
6/8/05 8:34:03 AM
6/8/05 8:34:27 AM
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Oh, give it a rest, ffs.
You started this with your mindless anal wanking on about "nearside/offside". It's common parlance over here (and elsewhere). In other words, it's not "feudal horsie talk", it's normal usage, which is why I used it. Duh. You could have simply said "eh? offside? Wossat?", but instead you started babbling on about football and hockey: What, had it committed a zone error on the football (or ice hockey) field?!?
One *so* wishes you people would catch up at least with the _twentieth_ century, and quit that stupid "nearside, offside" gibberish! ("Near" *what*, exactly? "Off" what, and do we care a fig?)
There are a pair of eminently simple, clear and unambiguous words to tell which side a wheel is on: "Left" and "right". You're quite free to use them, without any royalty fees to pay or anything. HTH! Anyway, what's a "zone error" on a football "field"? Please take care to use the appropriate terminology when attempting to be sarcastically funny.
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Post #210,415
6/8/05 9:10:40 AM
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Any time.
Any time after you, that is. PeeWee squirms: You started this with your mindless anal wanking on about "nearside/offside". No, you started it, by using such silly unintelligible terms. Or, if you wish, you started it by dredging up that utterly worn-out, stupid, annoying old "anal" hobby-horse that sloppy fuckwits always resort to as a "defense" of their sloppiness. You're still using it above here, I see, BTW. It's common parlance over here (and elsewhere). In other words, it's not "feudal horsie talk", it's normal usage, which is why I used it. Duh. OK, when you're posting on the UK-StraliaNet, feel free to talk whatever variant of horsie-talk you want. But when you're posting here on the INTER-national INTER-net, please don't try to claim that your weird backwaters-of-a-dead-Empire dialect is "normal" usage, 'coz it sure as fuck ain't. You could have simply said "eh? offside? Wossat?", And that, my blind young friend, was actually what I was doing. but instead you started babbling on about football and hockey:What, had it committed a zone error on the football (or ice hockey) field?!? [SNIP: Excessive quotage]
Anyway, what's a "zone error" on a football "field"? Please take care to use the appropriate terminology when attempting to be sarcastically funny. On the contrary, Grasshopper, I used the *exact* correct kind of terminology for my purposes here. When I'm asking (as you correctly surmised, hopefully in a "sarcastically funny" way), "Are you using that term in the technical sense of '...' as we laymen would call it?", I better be careful NOT to use too technically-"appropriate terminology" in my own rephrasing, or the effect is spoiled for all non-aficionados of the subject at hand. HTH!
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Post #210,419
6/8/05 9:39:56 AM
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Re: Any time.
You're being an utter dick.
I'm not going to dignify that load of retro-justificational twattery with a response.
Oh.
I just did.
Bollocks.
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Post #210,422
6/8/05 9:46:19 AM
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AKA "I don't have any real answer". OK, noted.
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Post #210,431
6/8/05 10:33:49 AM
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Yellow flag thrown!
Offsetting penalties.
First on Peter for thinking that everyone would understand what "offside wheel" would mean (even though I do believe CRC >did<, in fact, understand it) and I certainly figured it out from context within under a second.
Offset by CRC demanding it be changed because, for lack of a better argument, we should all speak properly because we're on the Internet.
Replay the down!
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Post #210,446
6/8/05 11:25:01 AM
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Bonus points awarded
...to pwhysall for introducing the term "front offside wheel," archaic though this might sound to colonial and continental ears. English will be a poorer, more sterile mindspace as these idioms die off. Points as well to CRC (who is merely restless, I think, and having at physwall reflexively as a grizzly will sharpen its claws upon the bark of a fir) for characteristically entertaining cussedness, and particularly for please don't try to claim that your weird backwaters-of-a-dead-Empire dialect is "normal" usage, which I expect to see in due course in six-point Verdana at the foot of my screen.
We now return you to our normal programming.
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #210,532
6/8/05 5:56:04 PM
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Having at WHOM?
Who is this physwall character?
I'm used to some fairly egregious spellings of my surname ("Wyzel" was a good one, as was "Wisul"), but they at least SOUND the same...
:-p
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Post #210,580
6/9/05 12:05:06 AM
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I stand corrected
Many a slip 'twixt fingertip and key caps. This was three of 'em.
cradolily,
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Post #210,453
6/8/05 12:20:09 PM
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Oh, and by the way ...
Does it really make a nit's worth of difference which wheel it was? I mean really, we're describing -- in print -- the machanical sound once made by a car the current writer's SWMBO no longer owns; a sound they never identified the cause of; a sound which most likely had nothing to do with which side it was on anyway. So like, WTF?
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Post #210,466
6/8/05 12:37:29 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #210465 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=210465|ICLRPD]
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Post #210,435
6/8/05 10:52:36 AM
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No, no, no.
It's "berk", not "dick. Get it straight, you imperialist baboon.
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Post #210,438
6/8/05 11:03:42 AM
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ROFL!
I am sorry, you guys are *JUST* too much!
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Post #210,464
6/8/05 12:35:35 PM
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And there we are.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the once and future king, Christian R Conrad.
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #210,487
6/8/05 2:01:53 PM
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Normal usage? Not here.
Never heard it in my life. I have no idea which is which. When you say near, do you mean near to the driver who is usually in the car, or near to something else? Let's see if I can figure it out.
I checked with [link|http://dictionary.reference.com/|http://dictionary.reference.com/]. They have an entry for nearside, but not what you're using offside for. Their entry for nearside says the side of the vehicle nearest to the kerb. (Their spelling, not mine. Note that it is the opposite of what I would have guessed, but there were even odds of that.) Here that would be the right-hand side. You guys drive on the other side of the street, so you probably mean the left-hand side.
I have no idea whether you'll mean left or right if you use those phrases in the USA.
Suppose you do use left, just to be consistent. Note that we have one-way streets where there are curbs on both sides. (We also have streets where people park in the middle or on the side, but ignore that detail.) If you use the word "nearside" while driving down one of those streets, I'll have no idea what you mean.
The moral is that when talking with Americans, the only reason that you should say "nearside" or "offside" is that you want to enjoy the experience of not communicating.
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #210,491
6/8/05 2:21:01 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #210490 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=210490|ICLRPD]
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Post #210,502
6/8/05 3:14:33 PM
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So I guess...
... I should insist that Southerners stop speaking with an accent when I'm talking to them, since obviously they're just trying not to communicate with me? After all, "y'all" isn't *my* normal usage, therefore they should accomodate me as their audience. How terribly provincial of you.
1) I guessed offside meaning passenger side as I read it. As it turns out, I was correct.
- but -
2) Who gives a rat's ass, other than the pathologically anal folk out there?
The true moral is that when speaking with Americans, you would expect to occasionally get questions as to your terminology. Not lectures about making sure you choose your colloquialisms for someone else.
The only question remaining is how do we measure the collective pole-up-the-ass you and Christian are sharing on this one... meters or yards?
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Post #210,504
6/8/05 3:16:47 PM
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Furlongs
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Post #210,509
6/8/05 3:29:43 PM
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no.
It is clearly one rod, pole or perch[link|http://home.clara.net/brianp/lengths.html|.]
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Post #210,506
6/8/05 3:23:04 PM
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You're risking a barrage of Norse longboat vituperation. ;)
Hey, it's sort of interesting. What else are we going to talk about today, eh?
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Cheers,
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Post #210,508
6/8/05 3:28:23 PM
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Keeps the LRPDs coming, dunnit?
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Post #210,511
6/8/05 3:38:51 PM
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thats knot a good measurement
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Post #210,526
6/8/05 5:17:34 PM
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Um, actually, I think that your guess was backwards
At least if I understood the dictionary definition right. When I park, the passenger is on the side with the curb, so that's nearside. The offside is the one that the driver is on. (Peter will correct me if I have that backwards, which event I presently give perhaps 30% odds of.)
As for who cares, perhaps nobody but it doesn't really matter to me. I'm not telling Peter what to do, I'm just giving him a data point on who will and will not understand those terms. He can do anything that he wants with that data point. A few of the options include taking it into consideration in the future, intentionally confusing people next time, using it to mock visiting tourists, or forget about it.
Do you have me confused with CRConrad?
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Post #210,527
6/8/05 5:25:42 PM
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I had it backwards, actually.
Nearside is passenger-side, which is the left-hand-side of the vehicle. So your nearside is my offside. Or something.
It's still very widely used over here, and not just in speech; you can go to any of a squillion car parts websites and buy offside doors and panels, and nearside arches and sideskirts.
Peter
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Post #210,531
6/8/05 5:51:31 PM
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what no fenders or wheel wells hood or trunk?
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Post #210,533
6/8/05 5:57:10 PM
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Confused? No.
Very similar, yes. Except that sometimes CRC is joking.
And as Peter mentioned, he told me which was which incorrectly before I posted.
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Post #210,539
6/8/05 6:28:51 PM
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Kind of invalidates your parallel, doesn't it though?
I mean, even if "y'all" isn't your own usage, it's eminently understandable, being an obvious contraction of "you" and "all".
So, do you *still* think that I (and Ben) "have a rod up my (our) backside(s)" for thinking Peter's terminology is less than perfectly effective in communication... When even *he* can't get it right?
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Post #210,540
6/8/05 6:30:11 PM
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It's called "hyperbole". HTH!
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Post #210,586
6/9/05 3:35:09 AM
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OK, that's another word for it. Thanks!
Thanks for admitting that objections to my point work only as hyperbole, not to be taken seriously.
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Post #210,601
6/9/05 8:15:55 AM
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Whatever gets you through the day.
True examples are hard to find, obviously, because by definition I don't know the words I won't know. I've run across it in the past, however, with regional differences in the US.
Regards,
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Post #210,608
6/9/05 9:37:02 AM
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I think you're forgetting the most salient detail here...
AdminiScott writes: True examples are hard to find, obviously, because by definition I don't know the words I won't know. Sure, *you* don't know yet what words that you don't know you'll come across in the future. But this ("offside", that is -- not "y'all") was aparently not just an example of *you, the recipient*, not getting it right. I've run across it in the past, however, with regional differences in the US. What -- you've really come across cases where someone uses regional-dialect expressions that even *they, the speaker*, don't get right, often enough for it to be worth mentioning here? And, to get back to the point: If you really have encountered *that*, are you seriously claiming that you *didn't* think that was "excessive" use of regional dialect (in the sense of hindering communication with out-of-regionals like you)? I find it hard to believe that you really think the onus was on you to understand something that even the person who was saying it didn't understand. Is that really how you feel?
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Post #210,614
6/9/05 10:05:27 AM
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Ha, nice try.
You were bitching about this looooong before Peter realized he wasn't saying it correctly.
Thanks for playing, drive through.
Regards,
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Post #210,659
6/9/05 2:55:56 PM
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Not even a "nice try" from you, though.
Too obvious a try at obfuscating the whole point of _this sub-sub-thread_: That your contention that it wasn't confusing was *wrong*, and that the fact that this was due to Peter himself getting it wrong rather proves my point, not yours.
And I could hardly have been "bitching" about *that* before you started the SST, which is so bleeding obvious that it makes your try not-even-nice.
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Post #210,673
6/9/05 4:14:30 PM
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Sorry, not my conversation, yours.
Regards,
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Post #210,757
6/10/05 2:38:21 AM
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Ha ha, very funny. But, hey, if you're granting...
...me "ownership" of the whole conversation, then your behaviour above only becomes all the more egregious: In the future, don't be such an arsehole as to try to retroactively redefine what it's been about, mmkay? That sucks bad enough even if you're an equal "part-owner" of a conversation.
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Post #210,781
6/10/05 8:20:31 AM
6/10/05 8:22:40 AM
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No, you mistake my meaning.
The supposed "sub-sub-thread" about "That your contention that it wasn't confusing" is your conversation, not mine. In other words, I'm not involved in your "Peter was wrong himself, therefore I was right" construct, which was invented far after the fact to justify your *original* post -- regardless of your attempt to hijack my meaning.
And now I'm done with this completely, now that you've finished your descent into casuistry.
HTH!
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-scott anderson
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Post #210,428
6/8/05 9:56:51 AM
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Yeah, actually I did understand what Peter was talking about
Not exactly difficult.
If anyone is an anal perfectionist it's me.
And I dont care.
So there.
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Post #210,436
6/8/05 10:53:33 AM
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No comment.
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Post #210,439
6/8/05 11:04:04 AM
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You keep coming back to that.
So to speak.
gd&r
Peter
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Post #210,440
6/8/05 11:05:07 AM
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Errrrmh, <cough>... ummm
I am reminded of a post I made some time recently.
But I shall not repeat it.
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Post #210,449
6/8/05 11:51:16 AM
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Oh, you're all just basking in your cleverness, arent you?
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Post #210,450
6/8/05 11:58:10 AM
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They're sure basking in something!
I got lost somewhere between the Offside wheel and the Starboard side!
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Post #210,484
6/8/05 1:44:30 PM
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Had I seen it in time, I too would have been sorely tempted.
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Post #210,534
6/8/05 6:13:30 PM
6/8/05 6:28:39 PM
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poor fellas cant tell the difference between an adjective
and their desires "I am an anal perfectioninst" is a description of a personality "I have perfected anal" is not. (thank you Peter)
thanx,
bill
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Post #210,535
6/8/05 6:13:58 PM
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If you've got...
...a perected anal, then you should see a doctor.
Peter
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Post #210,485
6/8/05 1:47:38 PM
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OK,w/ that admission you can to call me (or NE1) one too! :)
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Post #210,216
6/7/05 9:26:31 AM
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Oh *absolutely* gibber the Norse longboat terminology at us
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Post #210,218
6/7/05 9:49:41 AM
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ICLFRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #210217 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=210217|ICLFRPD]
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Post #210,264
6/7/05 1:55:19 PM
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Uh, that would be Larboard/Starboard, Lubber Boy
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Post #210,269
6/7/05 2:14:07 PM
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nope havn/styrbord larboard is the same
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Post #210,280
6/7/05 2:45:27 PM
8/21/07 6:13:39 AM
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Not so
[link|http://www.bargain-resource.com/NT1.htm|http://www.bargain-resource.com/NT1.htm]
Larboard
The left, or port, side of any craft when facing the bow. Perhaps derived from the 13th century English word laddebord, or loading side; some suggest it goes all the way back to the Norse word hlada bord of the same meaning.
Note that the loading/larboard side is now called the "port" side. Good rule since its bloody hard to tell the difference between "Larboard" and "Starboard" when shouting through the wind.
Starboard
The right side of any craft when facing the bow. Before the advent of the stern rudder, vessels had their steering oars on the right, or steering board, or starboard side.
I'm pretty sure my spelling of these terms is all to hell since they are mostly phonetic spellings of what were generally oral terms (example - Forecastle is also known/spelled/pronounce "Foc'sle" - seen it spelled lots of ways but its still that area in the bow under the deck where the crew bunks).
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Post #210,274
6/7/05 2:33:16 PM
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Doubly so when they drive on the wrong side of the road
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