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| 7 AUG 2011 at 2:16am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3438
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Yuck! Pretty disgusting.
but of course I just had to watch it. [smiley=eww.gif]
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| 7 AUG 2011 at 2:55am |
SirDaveGuild Master
Posts : 4953
Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | You know what they say about octopi in an obstetrics ward: Suckers are born every minute!
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 7 AUG 2011 at 4:47am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16553
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Interestingly enough, each time I've been in the obstetrics ward, I've never been in a situation where octopuses have been the topic of conversation.... that's Aussies for you... [smiley=shrug.gif]
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| 7 AUG 2011 at 7:46pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
Posts : 4953
Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (7 AUG 2011 4:47am)
Interestingly enough, each time I've been in the obstetrics ward, I've never been in a situation where octopuses have been the topic of conversation.... that's Aussies for you... [smiley=shrug.gif]
And, it may be the only subject that hasn't been discussed in Off-Topic...
On the other hand, have you not heard of America's octo-mom?
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 7 AUG 2011 at 8:26pm |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (7 AUG 2011 7:45pm)
Originally Posted By Caroline (7 AUG 2011 4:47am)
Interestingly enough, each time I've been in the obstetrics ward, I've never been in a situation where octopuses have been the topic of conversation.... that's Aussies for you... [smiley=shrug.gif]
And, it may be the only subject that hasn't been discussed in Off-Topic...
On the other hand, have you not heard of America's octo-mom?
She's definitely been discussed on JA more than once, if not her marine counterparts. [smiley=happy.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 7 AUG 2011 at 9:08pm |
FnordSchattenjger
Posts : 2761
Joined: 15 SEP 2008
Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (7 AUG 2011 7:45pm)
Originally Posted By Caroline (7 AUG 2011 4:47am)
Interestingly enough, each time I've been in the obstetrics ward, I've never been in a situation where octopuses have been the topic of conversation.... that's Aussies for you... [smiley=shrug.gif]
And, it may be the only subject that hasn't been discussed in Off-Topic...
On the other hand, have you not heard of America's octo-mom?
Is she the wife of octodad?
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| 7 AUG 2011 at 10:55pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16553
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | SirDave, the whole world has heard of octomum and her outrageous behaviour. :-X :-X :-X
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| 8 AUG 2011 at 10:23am |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
Posts : 480
Joined: 25 MAY 2011
Status : Offline | It's so cruel and wicked! I love it! Unfortunately, I don't like squids... Japanese Nazis- They rule.
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 11 AUG 2011 at 12:01am |
SpikeIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 75
Joined: 8 JUL 2003
Location: UK
Status : Offline | That's the £15.30 dish.... The £30.00 dish climbs out onto the table and then gives you a 3 hour one squid rendition of Hamlet from start to finish.... ...Before swiping your car keys and legging it out the door....
Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) "A man can't have everything....Where would he keep it??"
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| 13 AUG 2011 at 12:00pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
Posts : 480
Joined: 25 MAY 2011
Status : Offline | It's so weird to call both weight and money pound... You English should really invent some new words. I had a cool word in enghish I invented, but now I forgot...
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 13 AUG 2011 at 12:55pm |
FnordSchattenjger
Posts : 2761
Joined: 15 SEP 2008
Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By dwwa (13 AUG 2011 12:00pm)
It's so weird to call both weight and money pound... You English should really invent some new words. I had a cool word in enghish I invented, but now I forgot...
One £ has historically been worth 1 pound (weight) of silver. Other countries actually have a similar naming system (lira & peso are both weight related, with lira meaning pound).
Other countries have odd names for their currencies as well. Krona (Swedish currency) literally means crown.
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| 13 AUG 2011 at 5:27pm |
SpikeIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 75
Joined: 8 JUL 2003
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Invent new words!! ..... Like we've not given the world enough gibberish as it is .. You want some more.....
ok...
MUNCHGIGGLE ....
Old English... ... Lost in the annuls of time.... but once meant to mean a reaction to eating funny mushrooms....
Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) "A man can't have everything....Where would he keep it??"
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| 16 AUG 2011 at 6:32pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
Posts : 480
Joined: 25 MAY 2011
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fnord (13 AUG 2011 12:54pm)
Originally Posted By dwwa (13 AUG 2011 12:00pm)
It's so weird to call both weight and money pound... You English should really invent some new words. I had a cool word in enghish I invented, but now I forgot...
One £ has historically been worth 1 pound (weight) of silver. Other countries actually have a similar naming system (lira & peso are both weight related, with lira meaning pound).
Other countries have odd names for their currencies as well. Krona (Swedish currency) literally means crown.
Yeah, but Krona sounds cool!
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 16 AUG 2011 at 11:23pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Just to pour kerosene on CoD's fire.....
Pound is not only a unit of weight, the name of a currency, it is also the name of a cake (pound cake) AND a nice handy verb meaning to hit with force. eg, joggers pound the pavement.... women used to pound their laundry on rocks by the river.... etc
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| 17 AUG 2011 at 9:18am |
TravellerGuild Master
Posts : 4040
Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Hehehe - there's more.. [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
Pound can also mean a place where thery keep stray animals. As in: "You must go and fetch your dog at the pound, they impounded him yesterday because he was running amuk in the streets... "
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 17 AUG 2011 at 9:26am |
markornikovJourneyman
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Joined: 28 OCT 2011
Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | # : the pound sign
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| 17 AUG 2011 at 1:47pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
Posts : 480
Joined: 25 MAY 2011
Status : Offline | Hell, you English speakers don't need any other words than pound as it seems.
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 17 AUG 2011 at 11:47pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16553
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Very useful word, pound. We can even add bits to it and extend its use: impound (to officially seize or confiscate), to compound (to increase by adding to).
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| 18 AUG 2011 at 2:19am |
MarkGuild Master
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline |
Pound: the all-purpose flour of Anglo-Saxon-Aryan words.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 18 AUG 2011 at 2:21am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4047
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | And something most of us like to do around here is expound on one topic or another.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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