#123812 - 02/24/04 03:40 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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The schemers are congratulating themselves on the success
of their corner on the booze market.
"'Well,' says I, 'it does look as if we would have to take up gastritis and golf or be measured for kilts in spite of ourselves. This little turn in bug juice is, verily, all to the Skibo. And I can stand it,' says I, 'I'd rather batten than bant any day.'
Batten means to suck blood like a vampire bat
"Bant" refers to a long forgotten fad of drastically
reducing intake of food.
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#123813 - 02/27/04 07:05 PM
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/27/02
Posts: 2154
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
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Wow. What country and era were the speakers from???
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#123814 - 02/27/04 07:16 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 01/18/01
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They were in a small town in Texas, completely surrounded by
water because of protracted heavy rain, and had bought all
three bars in the town, and had raised price of a shot or
whiskey to a buck, and were getting rich. Until the wordy one got drunk, gave an superevangelical oration against
alcohol, and got entire town to take the pledge to abstain.
Putting them out of business.
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#123817 - 02/29/04 09:23 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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It turns out that the Banting who gave his name to the diet was a remarkably interesting man, not some kind of nut as I had suspected. At the very end of the article is the diet that helped him greatly improve his health. No quackery. http://www.westonaprice.org/know_your_fats/banting.html
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#123819 - 03/04/04 05:19 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
Posts: 3065
Loc: Jakarta
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I know of the word, but only from 19th century/early 20th century novels. Anything later than that, the word might appear, but always glossed as a diet which was popular before WW1.
From your article Dr. Bill:
Only three men in history have been immortalized by having their names enter the English language as verbs. The first was an Irishman, Captain Boycott, whose name entered the language in the 1860s. Another was Louis Pasteur and the third was the subject of this article—William Banting, a man who came to have a great impact on many peoples' lives, one of whom is me.
ARe we going to let them get away with that. Come on, AWADers, thinking caps on.
Bingley
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Bingley
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#123820 - 03/04/04 06:21 AM
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/06/02
Posts: 1692
Loc: UK
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Well, Dr Bill came up with one the other day - to galvanise.
He may have Americanized it, while I have Anglicised.
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#123821 - 03/04/04 06:31 AM
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/06/02
Posts: 1692
Loc: UK
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I haven't come across the word 'banting' before. The OED describes it as archaic. Banting, it tells us, was a treatment for obesity that involved abstinence from sugar, starch and fat. So he had the right of it, had Banting. Doesn't mention alcohol....
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