I noted when I logged in just now that there are:
1776 Registered Users.
Let's have a tea party ... in Boston Harbour. Deck the jaws with Boston Charlie, anyone?
Thanks, CapK, the number/date significance would have been lost on me, if you hadn't pointed it out. For me the 1770's bring Captain Cook to mind. 1770 was an important year in the history of both our countries, as Cook extended his Tahitian holiday jaunt to figure-of-8 around NZ before scooting up the east coast of Oz. There is even a town in Queensland called "Town of 1770". In 1776, I gather just days after the US Declaration of Independence, Cook was setting out on his third major exploratory voyage, this one in search of the North-West passage. And on that voyage, in 1779, he choked on his final sandwich somewhere in Hawaii.
Marty said: And on that voyage, in 1779, he choked on his final sandwich somewhere in Hawaii.
Yes, a club sandwich with tomato sauce, if I remember my history correctly. Just shows you it doesn't pay to try to book into a cheap hotel in Waikiki during the busy season ... even a captain needs to learn to take "NO" for an answer.
Oh, and Marty also said: 1770 was an important year in the history of both our countries ...
Um, it was 1769 he was in Godzone the first time around the block. Perhaps the date line has moved since?
Was it a ham sandwich? That seems to happen a lot to celebrities.
La belle bel a dit: Was it a ham sandwich? That seems to happen a lot to celebrities.
A club sandwich (to us antipodeans) is a sandwich with several layers of bread and filling. However, in this context I was being punny. The Hawaiians killed Cook with a club. Hence the reference to tomato sauce.
However, do not let me deter you from considering the possibility that Cook was a ham actor and that he was so bad that the Hawaiians decided to ensure that he broke more than a leg ...
In reply to:
La belle bel a dit: Was it a ham sandwich? That seems to happen a lot to celebrities.
A club sandwich (to us antipodeans) is a sandwich with several layers of bread and filling. However, in this context I was being punny. The Hawaiians killed Cook with a club. Hence the reference to tomato sauce.
However, do not let me deter you from considering the possibility that Cook was a ham actor and that he was so bad that the Hawaiians decided to ensure that he broke more than a leg ...
The other part of the pun, bel, was that Captain Cook had named Hawaii "the Sandwich Islands" after his sponsor, the Earl of Sandwich. Legend has it that the natives at first thought Cook was a god, but later when they discovered that he could suffer pain, they realized their mistake and killed him.
And OK, CapK(ook) you win the pedantry competition and I'll stick to Australian history.
But not before stating for the record that October 1769 was his first sighting of NZ, but he didn't hit the South Island until 1770 and was still hugging your coastline in March 1770.
Marty comments The other part of the pun, bel, was that Captain Cook had named Hawaii "the Sandwich Islands" after his sponsor, the Earl of Sandwich.
Oops, forgot to mention that one in my explanation to bel.
Then: And OK, CapK(ook) you win the pedantry competition and I'll stick to Australian history..
Oh, I wouldn't let that stop me if I were you. I wouldn't let it stop me destroying Oz history. For example, Cook didn't run aground until he literally hit the Great Barrier Reef, and I won't even guess which voyage, ship or year that was.
There are, at this moment, 666 posts under the heading "Information and Announcements" and you know what THAT means!
There are, at this moment, 666 posts under the heading "Information and Announcements" and you know what THAT means!
AND (for some people) the millenium is at hand. Whoo boy!
> the millenium is at hand (for some people)
^
and here I thought *everyone had learned how to spell the chiliad thing last year.
-joe (happy next thousand) friday
everyone had learned how to spell the chiliad ..you mean the
chilliad
- that's a hot one!
> the millenium is at hand (for some people)
^
and here I thought *everyone had learned how to spell the chiliad thing last year.
-joe (happy next thousand) friday
Rely on key bounce for double "n"s. Not a spelling problem, a fingering problem. Had to look chiliad up! Do you eat dictionaries for breakfast (love getting to say that, it's usually asked of me!).
Rely on key bounce for double "n"The Irish do more of that, then?
I had to look up chiliad, too.
chiliad
As in
The-ere is a bomb in chiliad
To wound Achilles' hee-eel
??
The-ere is a bomb in chiliad
To wound Achilles' hee-eel
Let's hope it's at least 1,000 years before any more bombs go off. There are a very great many sin-sick souls, and I
wouldn't mind a balm, myself.
>Had to look chiliad up! Do you eat dictionaries for breakfast[?]
some days it seems like that -- finding new old, obscure, abstruse or recondite words for my wordlist gets more problematic all the time. <g> last year at this time I did a millennial week: chiliastic, millenarian (note the undoubled n!), bimillenary, eschatology, preterist. [if you early celebrants were wrong, we could still be looking at the 'end of days' 8]
. [if you early celebrants were wrong, we could still be looking at the 'end of days' 8]Ooooh, yes, please! I'd hate to see life getting boring or anything.
chiliastic, millenarian (note the undoubled n!), bimillenary, eschatology, preterist
Nice list, tsuwm. Preterist looks like someone who could be arrested in many states! (Not in Minnesota, of course)
Faldage asks:
chiliad
As in
The-ere is a bomb in chiliad
To wound Achilles' hee-eel
??No, I think he means "chiliad" as in "Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes".
