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#12379 12/29/00 04:28 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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>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.




#12381 01/02/01 04:43 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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>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."
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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.






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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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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!
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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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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.



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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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70mph on dual carriageways or 100mph on the M roads ...



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