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#129486 06/21/04 05:05 AM
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"... and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more." Amos 7:7-8 Authorized Version.





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ah, that's what was meant by, "Let my people go."
always wondered...


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Lead would be my guess too, and in case the etymology is still not frightfully clear - Latin (and 'scientific') for Lead is plumbum - hence it's abbreviation Pb on the Periodic Table (oh glorious Mendeleev, thou shouldst have been living now...)


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And, oh yes, to Helen - some of my favourite words aren't necessarily for small, often forgotten things, but include rather large things. I'm speaking of the names we give certain groups of animals (and possibly plants, but I'm no botanist). Some current favourites include cetaceans and pinnipeds, and since tortoise shells were mentioned, chelonians. And then (as a sort of neat segue) the remarkable set of animal-alike adjectives - equine, porcine, vulpine, aquiline, lupine and so on. Bovine above all, of course...


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> Bovine above all, of course...

You can lose that b in these here parts.


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lose that b

Ah!


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Oh, shanks, for you, one of my favorite lines, (reserved for very special people..

i love you, i love you, i love you..
i'll love you till the cows come home.

























and then, i'll go back to loving the cows!


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Thanks to Max and Shanks for leading me in the right direction. And PopS, all right! I'd forgotten that Amos was a plumbing prophet!
Is there a word for puns like that elementary one I just used(sorry), that work in print but not in speech?


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Helen

i'll love you till the cows come home

Thanks for that. Of course, we could start from here, work our way through Gray's 'Elegy', meditate about unknown Caesar's and then... and then...


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"The tractor homeward chugs its smoky way,
And the farmer to his supper and TV."


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