Post #40,092
5/27/02 6:25:00 PM
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Huh?
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
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Post #40,099
5/27/02 7:51:57 PM
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No Whining (whinin')
greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
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Post #40,100
5/27/02 8:10:05 PM
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I'm *not* whinging...
...I'm asking what it means.
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.
[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
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Post #40,102
5/27/02 8:20:48 PM
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OK... I took the hook....
Just don't tug so hard when you do pull....
NO YNIN = No Whinin = Know Wine'in = Noe Why ningh
Okies.. that explain it???
I just know you are gonna tug hard real soon now...
greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
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Post #40,132
5/27/02 11:43:28 PM
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Is it...
[link|http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=whining|whining]
or
[link|http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=whinging|whinging]
Come on... which one is it then.
Whinging is pronounced (hwĭnj′ ĭng, wĭnj′ ĭng)
Whining is pronounced (hwīn′ ĭng, wīn′ ĭng)
I vote for Whining... ;-)
greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
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Post #40,134
5/28/02 12:06:37 AM
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OT. What *is* that pic?
Did the Borg catch you?
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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Post #40,205
5/28/02 3:19:21 PM
5/29/02 8:05:51 PM
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Resistance is...
A side effect of wire length... among other things...
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Both are from the Games of Fallout and Fallout2.
I am recently on a quest to get the original artwork and models that they used for those games.
I am thinking about actually making some lightweight replicas of both for parties and Halloween. They'd be awesome. Can you imagine seeing one of those coming up to beg for treats???
Edit: I put the large ones I have up so you can see the detail better.
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Post #40,142
5/28/02 3:03:03 AM
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It is: "two nations separated by a common language"
One favours whichever place one is, in the petrol queue and pays by cheque - with vigour.
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Post #40,147
5/28/02 6:56:59 AM
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Only two? What planet do you think you're on? :-)
You probably remember I have a casual interest in the development of the English language. One of the books I have to that effect includes a decent section on how different Englishes have emerged in different places in the world. UK vs US is a sane example, as is either of those with Oz, NZ, Canada or anywhere else where English is the first language. Contrast with the English in India, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Germany (!) - anywhere where English is not a region's first language.
Wade.
"All around me are nothing but fakes
Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
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Post #40,248
5/28/02 10:58:17 PM
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Well... I was lumping it into: Members of the Raj and
the impostors and interlopers. :-\ufffd
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Post #40,665
5/31/02 12:20:50 AM
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Note the key word "English"
If you can't be understood down in Texas, it ain't English, mate!
:-P
Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
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Post #40,690
5/31/02 8:52:30 AM
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Why? Why not the other way around?
Seems just as reasonable to me to say that if some dumb Texan doesn't understand Indian English, then it's the *Texan* who is at fault; then he doesn't really understand English.
Seems you only have to be half American to make that annoying assumption that America is the measure of all things.
Christian R. Conrad
Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764|Andrew Grygus]
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Post #40,819
6/1/02 12:45:16 AM
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You missed half the point
Texans are infamous for believing that the center of the world must be in the USA because the USA contains Texas. That is, Texan arrogance is to US arrogance what US arrogance is to the rest of the world.
They also have strong accents, and don't do too well at understanding Australians. :-)
IOW I wasn't just tweaking Wade.
Cheers,
Ben
"... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
--Richard Feynman
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Post #40,927
6/3/02 2:03:53 AM
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Ah, OK.
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