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#174663 - 03/13/08 11:54 AM Re: I may be a camera [Re: Jackie]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass	Jackie, you know me -- I always like to leave 'em bumfuzzled, or raddled at a minimum. -joe (inpulregafize your spirits) friday
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#174680 - 03/13/08 04:25 PM Re: I may be a camera [Re: tsuwm]
The Pook old hand Registered: 02/20/08 Posts: 1067 Loc: Tasmania	Originally Posted By: tsuwm the other is responding to a post with a really apt and/or witty reply only to discover that (often whilst you were actually composing) someone else pipped you by posting much the same reply -- yes, pipped at the post; exactly! -joe (I expect by now I may have been pipped on this reply) friday Don't you just hate that! There should be a word for a post that is subsequently made anyway, even after discovering you been 'pipped at the post' in the hope that people might not notice the other one or might think yours is cleverer anyway.
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#174681 - 03/13/08 04:28 PM Re: I may be a camera [Re: Jackie]
The Pook old hand Registered: 02/20/08 Posts: 1067 Loc: Tasmania	Originally Posted By: Jackie Olly, and all other newbumfuzzledcomers: mantled comes from the term 'wearing a cloak (or mantle!) of invisibility' (from some work of fiction, no doubt). I don't know why it became mantled instead of cloaked. Pipped was a new one on me. Yes, tsuwm, I know I mantled you, but. It sounds similar to Professor Kingsford's (was that his name?) practice in The Paper Chase of 'shrouding' a first year student by no longer calling on them to answer a question.
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#174695 - 03/13/08 08:43 PM Re: I may be a camera [Re: Jackie]
twosleepy old hand Registered: 02/28/08 Posts: 876 Loc: western NY	. Edited by twosleepy (03/13/08 09:59 PM)
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#174697 - 03/13/08 09:05 PM Re: I may be a camera [Re: Jackie]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass	Originally Posted By: Jackie I don't know why it became mantled instead of cloaked. maybe it's a matter of volition: mantle - something that covers, envelops, or conceals: the mantle of darkness as, mantling is something that usually* just happens, with no malice aforethought except when someone is trying to make a point! -joe (going for that nothingest) friday*
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#174699 - 03/13/08 09:38 PM Re: I may be a camera [Re: tsuwm]
consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2636 Loc: Caribbean	And this thread is still getting more twistier.
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#174878 - 03/19/08 11:35 PM Re: I may be a camera [Re: consuelo]
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	Isn't the mantle of invisibility from Princess Bride? At some point we switched from chopped liver to mantled in mid thread but it was some time ago.
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#174891 - 03/20/08 06:47 AM Re: I may be a camera [Re: Zed]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13666	It may well have been used in Princess Bride but I think it goes back farther than that. We got it from wordorigins and they're real good at this kind of question.
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#174904 - 03/20/08 03:04 PM Re: I may be a camera [Re: Faldage]
twosleepy old hand Registered: 02/28/08 Posts: 876 Loc: western NY	inconceivable....
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#174907 - 03/20/08 07:09 PM Re: I may be a camera [Re: twosleepy]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13666	Inconceivable what?
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