#12379
12/29/2000 4:28 PM
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Another realization, and a question--
If you use the back arrow on your window frame (the one that is there no matter what site or program you're in) to go back to the Index, you will get literally the same screen you already had, showing the New icons even for the thread you just came from. (I think.)
My question: How is it that the spacing of my posts changes between the time of me typing it and the time it appears? A lot of my posts show up with some lines having one or two words, and others going all the way across--actually wider than the box I get for typing in.
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#12380
12/30/2000 2:48 AM
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>I dredged this up from the wwftd archives:
>the worthless word for the day is: walla-walla
>an unintelligible sound made by many people talking at once [from a Hindi word]
>In the theater, a walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when >they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
>...perhaps shanks can confirm this one.
Hi Tsuwm
Just read your post- thought I'd try my hand at it. I first thought of the Urdu word "W-allah" which means "O Allah", but then in an Urdu dictionary I found this:
Walwala - Howling, lamenting. A tumult noise, uproar, murmur. A gush of passion, ardour, fervour. Pining, repining.
A rather varied amount of meanings. My Urdu dictionary I treat with indulgence. The words are not very delicately explained. Then it says :
Walwalaat - is howling or lamentation; Walwalaa-na - to howl or lament
So the dominant meaning seems to be howling and lamentation. But the meaning of "Tumultous noise, murmur, uproar" could have lead to walla-walla.
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#12381
01/02/2001 4:43 PM
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I think you're right, its something on the order of the NY State (downstate) Correctional facilities at Sing Sing ... but the prison has always been known Sing-Sing. The town got tired of giving their name to the prison, so they changed it to Osinging-- both names came from indian place names for area.
But it was where you went, in James Cagney movies when you got sent "up the river"-- which is still used to express prison time.
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#12382
01/03/2001 1:23 AM
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>I think you're right, its something on the order of the NY State (downstate) Correctional facilities at Sing Sing ... but the prison has always been known Sing-Sing. The town got tired of giving their name to the prison, so they changed it to Osinging-- both names came from indian place names for area.
Another myth shot ALL to hell!
In 1825, $20,100 was appropriated to buy the 130 acre site, named after the Sint Sinck Native Americans. By May, Mr. Lynds had selected 100 convicts from the Auburn prison and brought them by barge along the Erie Canal to freighters down the Hudson River. They arrived in Sing Sing on May 14, "without a place to receive them or a wall to enclose them."
(snip)
Eventually, the system was phased out after labor unions established their opposition to prison-made goods. The municipalities of Sing Sing changed their name to Ossining in 1901, when goods from local manufacturers were boycotted because of the "Sing Sing" connection.
http://www.hudsonriver.com/halfmoonpress/stories/0500sing.htm
Thank you, dear lady. You have educated me yet again. Another entry in the never-ending book of lies taught us by our teachers.
TEd
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#12383
01/12/2001 6:17 PM
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I know in some parts of the world a certain logic applies. But pedestrians don't always have the right of way. In California according to the book, Only blind pedestrians with a white cane or seeing eye dog. The rest have to be legally in the crosswalk. Of course, in the end it doesn't matter where you are, when you're hit by a car you lose. We also have signs that say "End 45 miles/hour" with no indication of the speed limit (my personal pet peeve) and a poll of the neighbors indicates no one know what it is. I call it California logic.
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#12384
01/13/2001 4:45 PM
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have signs that say "End 45 miles/hour" with no indication of the speed limit Hello, ladymoon ... what a lovely name ... and welcome. When I lived in California I had to get a license and take the driver's exam. As I recall there are speed limits you are supposed to know for the area you are in i.e. school zone, populated area, and wouldn't you slow to the appropriate speed after the 45 mph zone ended?  a poll of the neighbors indicates no one know what it is.
Perhaps a look at the Driver's Manual you studied before you got your first license ?  REALLY love that name!  wow
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#12385
01/13/2001 9:41 PM
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So what's the point of the sign? Why not a sign that says what the limit is, instead of what the limit isn't?
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#12386
01/13/2001 11:50 PM
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In New Zealand, our signs either state a speed or have a black line diagonally across a white background which means "open road" - 60mph max. There are fewer and fewer of these as they are replaced with 100kmh (60mph) signs.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#12387
01/14/2001 7:33 AM
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Exactly as in the UK.
Where a speed limit is in force there are repeater signs at regular intervals. If there are no repeaters, we know that we may drive at 60mph on all roads, or 70mph on dual carriageways.
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#12388
01/14/2001 8:15 AM
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70mph on dual carriageways or 100mph on the M roads ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#12389
01/14/2001 2:08 PM
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Ladymoon wrote : So what's the point of the sign? Why not a sign that says what the limit is, instead of what the limit isn't?
Well now, if you want to get LOGICAL, you have to get more women on the job.
wow
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#12390
01/14/2001 2:17 PM
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RhubarbCommando wrote about
Re: at the cross walk
An oblique take on crosswalk differences : in UK I discovered drivers used the red-yellow to get a jump on the green.
In US the red-yellow is "pedestrians walk!"
Something people from UK should know if they decide to drive in States!
Just trying to be a good neighbor.
wow
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#12391
01/14/2001 5:50 PM
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>Where a speed limit is in force there are repeater signs at regular intervals. If there are no repeaters, we know that we may drive at 60mph on all roads, or 70mph on dual carriageways.
I think that the rule in built up areas is that it is 30 unless specified as 40 (or these days, sometimes 20).
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#12392
01/14/2001 7:31 PM
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Is that because it would be logical to have a "balance" of women and men, or are women (suddenly ) the more logical of the two (devils advocate emoticon). (...as I hop on my Marusho and drive away at 101kph)
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#12393
01/14/2001 9:27 PM
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Musick asked : are women (suddenly) the more logical of the two (devils advocate emoticon).
Nothing sudden about it, dear one.
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#12394
01/15/2001 6:19 AM
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Musick asked : are women (suddenly) the more logical of the two (devils advocate emoticon).
Nothing sudden about it, dear one.
wowS'all right, Musick, it's just over compensation for perceived past wrongs. They'll get over it in somebody's lifetime ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#12395
01/15/2001 9:55 AM
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wow informs us that - In US the red-yellow is "pedestrians walk!"
In the UK we have just two classes of pedestrian - the quick and the dead.
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#12396
01/15/2001 9:59 AM
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Jo, quite rightly, points out - I think that the rule in built up areas is that it is 30 unless specified as 40 (or these days, sometimes 20).
Yes, I was thinking entirely about non-urban situations, and can't understand why you-all didn't read my mind. 
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#12397
01/15/2001 1:07 PM
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two classes of pedestrian - the quick and the dead.
Oh, my! I do hope you folks try to watch for us poor
befuddled yanks stepping off the curb without looking for cars coming from the wrong direction! Thank you.
By the way, I now think of you as the Rhubarb
Co-mahn-do, dag nab it.
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#12398
01/15/2001 1:15 PM
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Nah! we don't bother with knocking down foreign visitors, as a rule. You only score one point for them unless they're from *********** (censored under EU anti-xenophobe regulations) You score much more for old ladies on zimmer-frames who ARE looking in the right dierection.
(I was going to edit the typo in the last word - but it is so apposite that I'm leaving it in)
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#12399
01/15/2001 2:31 PM
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Repeat after me : Drive left, look right. Drive left, look right. Drive left ..... wow
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#12400
01/15/2001 2:53 PM
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*jumping up and down*
I know what this means!
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#12401
01/15/2001 4:08 PM
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Poster: AnnaStrophic
Subject: Re: Zimmer frame
*jumping up and down*
I know what this means!Obviously, AnnaS and I are fans of various BBC-America programs as I figured out "zimmer frame" (from context) too! Now to The Question : WHY do you call it a zimmer frame? Is Zimmer the inventor's name perchance? In USA they're called "walkers." My Dad had one while recovering from a broken hip ... a nifty one with wheels. Downward pressure and the walker was steady, .... release the pressure and you could roll it forward instead of having to semi-pick it up.  For people with balance problems it is easier and steadier than the no-wheels version. Awaiting word from the Mother Country with heart aflutter. wow
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#12402
01/15/2001 4:34 PM
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Is Zimmer the inventor's name perchance?
Yes, I believe so - he was either Germa ot Swiss, I am almost certain, but I don't know which.
Yes, I've seen the semi-wheeled ones, which are excellent devices. I'm going to have speed stripes put on mine, when I get it!
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#12403
01/15/2001 5:23 PM
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RhubarbCommando informed us : Nah! we don't bother with knocking down foreign visitors, as a rule. You only score one point for them unless they're from *********** (censored under EU anti-xenophobe regulations) Hmm "unless they're from", nope, too many asterisks to spell France - who else do the Poms dislike so much?
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#12404
01/15/2001 8:05 PM
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So was I the only one taught to look both ways? Then you don't have to remember where you are or where you're from, you're covered. Maybe my parents traveled too much, or maybe it's because I was raised by one of those logical women.
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#12405
01/15/2001 8:12 PM
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Rhubarb says : only score one point for them unless they're from *********** Max Q says : too many asterisks to spell France - who else do the Poms dislike so much? Beware all ! Wouldn't touch this one! wow
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01/15/2001 10:48 PM
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My sweet bride of 29 years suffered from Multiple Sclerosis and was, in the several years before she died, required to use a walker. The Commando suggests racing stripes as an appropriate decoration. My sainted wife had a Bermuda bicycle bell mounted on one side of hers and a brass horn with a black rubber ball attached on the other. In the middle, she had mounted a device, intended for bicyclists, which supposedly measured wind speed and provided a read-out on a black-faced dial with white numbers that went up to sixty miles per hour.
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01/16/2001 1:23 AM
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My sweet bride of 29 years...
My very dear Father--she sounds exactly the kind of person I think would be perfectly suited to you. I am not surprised in the least to learn that you married someone with such a superb attitude. And, had I been able to ask her, I'll bet she would have said how lucky she was to have
found you. Oh, bittersweet is loss.
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01/16/2001 2:46 AM
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Jackie says, of my late wife, ...she sounds exactly the kind of person I think would be perfectly suited to you. I am not surprised in the least to learn that you married someone with such a superb attitude.
My sweet bride retained her sense of humour when most of the rest of her ceased to function. She was rolled into a hospice on a gurney because she was too weak to ride in a wheelchair. When greeted by the Medical Director, she said to him, "Do you have square dancing here?"
I guess the Lord knew that it took a woman with a sense of humour like that to live for almost 29 years with a man with a sense of humour like mine.
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01/16/2001 5:55 PM
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Perception is reality (a woman once told me) Wow - Aren't we both missing a wink in your reply? Fine, just call me "the missing wink".
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#12410
01/17/2001 8:14 AM
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Father S, I greatly admire your wife's sense of style. My brother has embellished his electric scooter with similarly hilarious and inappropriate devices and strikes terror into all pedestrians. I certainly believe that the best way to cope with affliction is to raise two fingers to it! I would have loved to have met her.
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#12411
01/18/2001 9:18 AM
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>Fine, just call me "the missing wink". Just don't call me "the weakest wink" Goodbye Clue: It's another of those UK cultural links. I'm not sure if we have inflicted the programme on any other nation yet:http://www.qwertyuiop.co.uk/gs/atoz/programmes/w/weakest_link/
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#12412
01/18/2001 11:44 PM
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Every time I see that programme (about once a fortnight) I wonder how much Anne Robinson must be cringing inside at having to play the tyrant. Do her children (does she have children?) take the mickey?
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#12413
01/19/2001 12:52 AM
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Doesn't everyone know that pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing does absolutely nothing except turn the "Don't Cross" light on? I tell you this from the experience gained from years of angrily stabbing at the damned things!
Are you not familiar with the impatience switch? The more you press the button, the longer it takes the lights to change. I believe the same principle applies to the 'close doors' button in elevators.
Rapport was established superficially.
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01/19/2001 1:42 AM
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unless they're from *********** (censored under EU anti-xenophobe regulations) Hmm "unless they're from", nope, too many asterisks to spell France - who else do the Poms dislike so much? ze Germans (don't mention the war). Rapport was established superficially.
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01/26/2001 2:53 PM
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When I first watched that programme I thought she was the rudest person alive and wondered who could have given her a job she was so obviously so ill-fitted for... then I caught on and started wondering what on earth could bring the contestants to a TV show where they are so harshly mistreated... I haven't figured this one out yet...
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