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So, what is the connection between coffee and codoms, anyway ... apart from the fact that they both begin with "co".
Are we just trying to change the topic?
In the immortal words of Yoda:
"Do, or do not - there is no try"
Seriously, though, the regulars here never have to try to change topics, it happens organically.
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the regulars here never have to try to change topics, it happens organically
Do you mean "orgasmically"?
Is it just happenstance that an "episcopal vigar" obsesses about condoms and an analstrobic critic changes the topic to coffee?
Possible, I suppose, but most unlikely.
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Wordminstrel, shift happens. Get over it and bugger off, to crossthread.
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shift happens
I am just making an honest observation.
Who are we trying to protect ... from what?
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Who are we trying to protect
Ain' nobody tryin to protect nobody from nothin. You can either accept the fact that topics drift about or you *could read the posts and see for you own se'f how it happened.
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Who are we trying to protect ... from what?
Condoms are considered good protection. [crossthreading]
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talk to me word boy, i am the one who took a single work in a post, and in effect changed subjects..
Capfka's post was more or less on topic, and then the corrections followed, and i took info in the corrections to change topics..
and yeah it happens.. we had just about finished 'french' as an adjective... there weren't any really intriging discussions going on.. and so people responded to my comments...
sometimes, a off comment will come early in a thread, and be ignored, and then later brought up again (usually by someone else.) and the first person who posted then complains about either being chopped liver, or a *micky mantle.. at that point, we either continue with the tangent, or play with the words mantle/chopped liver, or the thread loses interest...
you've been a round a while now--and you seem smart enough, haven't you seen this pattern yet?
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Here marks the point of *conversion:
Extraction with a naked female drinking coffee: One thaler.
wordminstrel - It's an intentional creation of a defensive posture... a shift created with a *porpoise... kinda like building a bridge and then renting the space under it to a troll.
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From somewhere in cyberspace: What is a Troll?
A Troll is someone who comes to the message board solely to provoke fights, insult people and cause trouble. And for a collection of definitions: http://groups.msn.com/TheDebateClub/whatisatroll.msnw~~~~ Now, then: what is a vigar?
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>what is a vigar?
a vicar with a very hard see.
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>what is a vigar?
a vicar with a very hard see.
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formerly known as etaoin...
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I don't think the vigar that got Mrs Clinton's little boy Billy into trouble was only 5c ...
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the vigar that got Mrs Clinton's little boy Billy into trouble
Well, there's the problem then.
And who is this Billy you're talking about? The former POTUS's mother's name was Mrs. Kelley.
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re:The former POTUS's mother's name was Mrs. Kelley.
that was after her third marriage right? or was it her fourth?
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Talk about topical drift! from condoms to coffee to the pres. Oh, I guess that isn't so much a drift as a full circle.  
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And it stands for - Peck Of Trouble, Usually Serious. Faldo, I knew that Billy was a bast... that his mother had several "marriages" and that her name was Kelley. But it's a good line and I wasn't about to spoil it. You do that for me just fine!
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The "vigar" is not obsessed with condoms. Rather, the vicar received e-mail from a chum in Lincs which used the euphemism "french letter" for condom and merely wondered, as all us word types often wonder, why we say it like that.
Should you prefer me to redirect this thread to a more refined (and even ecclesiological) subject, I am ready to speak to why the little silver bowl used to catch the water with which the celebrant rinses his fingers before mass is called "lavabo" ... but that might not be as interesting to as many.
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the vicar received e-mail from a chum in Lincs
Would that make it a chain-letter, then?
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re: to why the little silver bowl...is called "lavabo" cause it is used to wash and the latin root in the word, lav means to wash? and can be found in lavage, (a medical term for washing a wound) or lavatory (a place to wash), even lavender (an aromatic, whose oil was used to wash). but what a about lavasious? or do you want to wash your hand of that?
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it is used to wash and the latin root in the word, lav means to wash
Specifically, lavabo means I shall wash.
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The source is Psalm 26:6 -- "I will wash my hands in innocence, and go about thy altar, O Lord, singing a song of thanksgiving."
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Closely related, of course, to lavatory. Translated into Americanese as "wash room". All too accurately, actually.
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I'd heard that washroom wasn't universally understood in the US. (It's what we say here when we are in "polite company".) I always hear restroom on USn-TV, and see it written on signs the few times I've been to the US (experience very limited there).
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washroom wasn't universally understood in the US.
I could easily imagine it being taken to mean the laundry room.
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certainly had an odd take on filling cavities!
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for reasons that are paten-tly obvious, as has been pointed out a host of times, I'm sure.
TEd -- who never wafers from his mission to make the world a happier place through puns
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I could easily imagine it being taken to mean the laundry room.
Yet, I've only noticed that *translation in areas where the pronunciation is predominantly "warshroom".
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In French, the device is called "capote
anglaise"
Then there is the story : (with apologies for spellings.)
An Englishman and his French-speaking wife were on holiday in France when the wife had a heart attack and died. The husband was in dire straits as he spoke very little French beyond Hello and Thank You. With much difficulty he managed to arrange for his wife's remains to be shipped back to England for burial. As he was dressing to acompany his beloved to her final resting place he realized the rather rakish hat he'd worn for the vacation was hardly suitable for a recent widower. He looked in the dictionary and found the words "Chapeau" for hat and "noir" for black and ventured forth to buy a suitable black hat.
At the store, however, he mispronounced the word and asked for a "capote noir" - with difficulty he got through to the clerk that his wife had just died and that he needed a "capote noir." The amazed clerk regarded him for a moment and then, with awe in his voice, exclaimed : "Quelle finesse."
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I'd heard that washroom wasn't universally understood in the US.Nope. My church youth group volunteered at a summer camp in Ontario several years ago. On our first day there, a Canadian girl with a grimy young camper in tow asked me if there was a washroom in the cafeteria building. I had no idea that she meant a bathroom, and said "Well, there's a sink in the kitchen..." I got a very strange look, as you might imagine.
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That was a close call for coffee in the keyboard, Rapunzel! 
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for reasons that are paten-tly obvious, as has been pointed out a host of times, I'm sure.-- Paten! host!
TEd -- who never wafers from his mission to make the world a happier place through puns -- wafers!
Nobody can hold a candle to you and the world would indeed be a drearier place without you TEd. I am, as ever, your fan!
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Rapunzel, long time no hair! Welcome back.
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