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#19224 - 02/20/01 03:04 PM On behalf of everybody,
Sparteye Pooh-Bah Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 1773	In reply to: It will become clearer and clearer the more you browse and respond or initiate that one does not have to be a Webster or even a Garg to simply speak ones mind. -- Thanks, I think.
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#19225 - 02/20/01 03:09 PM Re: Help, please
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	All scribbler has to do now is go full speed ahead and fire at will (exemption for me I hope)
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#19226 - 02/20/01 06:59 PM Re: Help, please
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	>Now, about those rules: might I see the trunkated version? ARGH. I torso through the thread to make that pun before you did. It was abdominal! _________________________ TEd
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#19227 - 02/20/01 08:29 PM Re: Help, please
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Dear TEd: careful lest you get your keister punted. Actually I have enjoyed them
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#19228 - 02/22/01 07:27 AM Re: Help, please
wsieber old hand Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 1010 Loc: Switzerland	well, this thread too has gone beyond the pale... I didn't notice any red faces here of late.
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#19229 - 02/22/01 11:37 AM Re: Help, please
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	well, this thread too has gone beyond the pale... I didn't notice any red faces here of late. Well, wsieber, some of us are more modest than others.
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#19230 - 02/22/01 02:23 PM the pale
of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park	a pale is just a palisade-- a wooden frontier wall to keep out invaders. but the pale refers specifically to the wall about Dublin-- (one of the newer cities in the old world-- a few years past 1000) that keep the irish out of dublin. It was one of the improvements the english made to ireland when they first occupied it. _________________________ my other obsession
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#19231 - 02/22/01 03:04 PM Re: the pale
Marty enthusiast Registered: 09/20/00 Posts: 347 Loc: Melbourne, Australia	>but the pale refers specifically to the wall about Dublin-- ...and who amongst us would dare question Helen of Troy's credentials on the subject of walled cities?
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#19232 - 02/22/01 04:27 PM Re: the pale
Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409	That's what I love about this Board. While I had long known about The Ple of Irish history, I did not that there had been so many others, including another English Pale, around Calais. Here's a link to a Britannica article on pales in general http://208.154.71.60/bcom/eb/article/3/0,5716,59523+1,00.html And here's a link to map showing The Pale in mediæval Ireland http://www.irelandstory.com/maps/historical/map1450.gif
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#19233 - 02/23/01 09:39 AM Re: the pale
of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park	thank you max and marty-- NY's North River (north of NYC it is commonly known as the Hudson River)--has a Palisades-- Steep high cliffs, they are so named be they in effect became a effective barrier-- the shores of the river north of what is midtown, about 42nd street-- on the NJ side of the river are high -- several hundred feet, sheer cliffs of cystaline granite. (Very similar to the "devil's steps stones" in North Ireland.) It is a ancient volcanic layer, that has be twisted and turn 90 degrees. A similar structure exist in northern Manhattan-- but not till 168th St-- the George Washington bridge-- (180th street) has almost no "Up Ramp" on either side of the river-- there is slight grade-- but not the steep grade common to suspension bridges-- the bridge is almost level the ground--until the ground suddenly drops away in a sheer cliff. Very unlike the ANZAC, for example-- which was shown as one of the challanges in the Olympic Marathon race. _________________________ my other obsession
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