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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread bright-line #127156 04/09/2004 5:37 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Der Quibblemeister says this is a lousy mangled pretentious metaphor. It falsely implies a machine made criterion of high accuracy. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bright-line #127157 04/09/2004 7:23 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Well, a lot of metaphors are pretentious. I wouldn't have thought it implied that high a level of accuracy, however. But what do I know? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bright-line #127158 04/09/2004 7:43 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont well, some of us have been known to suffer from hypretension... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bright-line #127159 04/09/2004 8:38 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 And Fraunhofer learned to identify elements in solar spectra by dark lines. Gotta go look that up. http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:1jmIbFaQOdoJ:home.achilles.net/~jtalbot/spectra/Fraunhofer.html+Frauenhofer+dark+lines&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 I see I gave him too much credit. But still a nice piece of work. Sorry about wide screen. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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