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What is a "gleitzeit"?
A "gleitzeit" is a sudden, uninvited, but not necessarily unwelcome, commercial intrusion into a meeting place such as a chat room.
Also, a poltergeist with a pitch.
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Ah! The unquestioned answer.
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Also, a poltergeist with pitch.
Then beware that you do not become tarred with the same brush.
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beware that you do not become tarred with the same brush
Will keep that in mind if I'm ever tempted to hawk something in here.
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tempted to hawk something
But do you know a hawk from a handsaw?
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But do you know a hawk from a handsaw?
I know I could hawk a handsaw in a power blackout. What else do I need to know?
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How many remember what a "handsaw" was?
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How many remember what a "handsaw" was?
Handsaws are still handy, wwh.
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used one just today, actually. voompa, voompa...
formerly known as etaoin...
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Not that kind of handsaw.
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are we talking tommy-gun, or some such thing?
formerly known as etaoin...
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I think the battles of Fong's handsaw age predate even Mr Gattling by a couple of centuries...
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There was a severe shortage of electricity in Shakespeare's day, so all saws were used by hand. No need to specify.
And a couple of Shakespeare glossaries say "handsaw" meant a "heron".
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heron
Gold star for Dr Bill.
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So what's the Zeitgeist of gleitzeit?
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...but not necessarily unwelcome, ...
Oh, it's unwelcome alright, but we've just apparently become *collectively too lazy to flip it the ol' bird.
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too lazy...
We gave this one a heron - what d'ya want morehen!
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in Shakespeare's day ... all saws were used by hand
"Old saws" never die. They just lose their teeth.
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