#14690
01/05/2001 4:20 PM
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To celebrate my promotion this morning from Journeyman and my reception as Member (I feel like Tamino after having passed though the ordeals by earth, air, fire & water and being received in the court of wisdom and benevolence), I want to address what I perceive as a significant trend, at least in these parts.
We all have our eye out for neologisms and are all ready to either pounce on them and devour their perpetrators, or to put them in the cyberstocks and hold them up to public ridicule (or as public as this site gets). It seems to me that the chief villains are radio/TV newscasters, and especially those who cover politics. And I'm not referring to lowbrow types, but those you hear on National Public Radio (for the benefit of outlanders, a highbrow radio service catering to the elite, or the effete snobs, or the pointy-headed intellectuals, or whatever you consider them) or better-than-average TV shows. In the last 24 hours, I have heard: a) "A number of Congressional committee chairmen have been termlimited and will be replaced"; b) "While both the Clintons will continue to have a strong presence in Washington, Al Gore has been de-looped." This doesn't count what may be mere misspeakings, such as the commentator I heard yesterday who used causality when he should have used cause. The news boys (the women don't seem to do it) appear to love an opportunity to coin a new and colorful word. While I love an apposite original expression as well as the next linguaphile, I shall continue to invigilate the airwaves and issue alarums. Trust you all will too.
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#14691
01/05/2001 7:38 PM
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Al Gore has been de-loopedAaargh!! Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!  
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#14692
01/05/2001 8:08 PM
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It may just mean that the Clinton administration thought he was loopy in the first place and have belatedly corrected that sad state of affairs.  They may send him to Palestine to act as a firing-loopy.
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#14693
01/05/2001 8:20 PM
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I feel like Tamino ...
Are you suggesting that getting to your present exalted status is like having your lips padlocked shut and being flogged?
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#14694
01/05/2001 8:53 PM
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Bob's probably just tooting his own Flute.  (I kinda like "de-looped," by the way. Wonder if our Kiwi counterparts really understand what it means?)
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#14695
01/05/2001 9:06 PM
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I would fondly imagine it means that Gore's been cut out of the loop, i.e. is not kept informed of what's going on and isn't consulted. Effectively, he's gone already but just hasn't left yet.
Not a strictly American term any more, Anna ...
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#14696
01/05/2001 9:13 PM
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Anna's right, CK, you don't really understand. maybe we should leave it for Jackie to 'splain when she gets back from inside the Beltway? she'll be wanting to get to the higher ground, now that someone else has blazed the trail.
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#14697
01/05/2001 9:17 PM
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In reply to:
Anna's right, CK, you don't really understand. maybe we should leave it for Jackie to 'splain when she gets back from inside the Beltway?
Thank you tsuwm. Your reply seems to confirm my suspicion that "de-looped" referes to being cut out of the loop, with an added reference to DC geography, both physical and political. The Beltway came to mind for me as soon as I read Bob's post, but that doesn't make the term any less ugly, IMO.
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#14698
01/05/2001 9:20 PM
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tsuwm, VETERAN ?????? what'd I miss? (and CapK, Jackie or no Jackie, you almost got it... )
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#14699
01/05/2001 9:22 PM
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>but that doesn't make the term any less ugly, IMO.
::nodding head emphatically::
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#14700
01/05/2001 9:24 PM
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(acknowledging Max's grasp while still pointedly admiring the neologism)
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#14701
01/05/2001 9:37 PM
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AnnaS is brazenly still pointedly admiring the neologismI'm sorry, but that's just plain loopy!
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#14702
01/05/2001 10:13 PM
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de-looped???? Hmmmm. Wasn't there a kiddie game that was called loop de-loop? Maybe it isn't a neologism after all.
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#14703
01/05/2001 10:21 PM
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"I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing
how businesses conduct their business. And, like
them, I am very optimistic about our position in
the world and about its influence on the United
States. We're concerned about the short-term
economic news, but long term I'm optimistic.
And so, I hope investors, you know-secondly, I
hope investors hold investments for periods of
time-that I've always found the best investments
are those that you salt away based on
economics."- GWB, Austin, Texas, Jan. 4, 2001
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#14704
01/05/2001 10:57 PM
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GWB, Austin, Texas, Jan. 4, 2001
Yeah.
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#14705
01/05/2001 11:00 PM
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Who says I didn't understand the provenance? I merely confirmed I understood the definition - which is what I though Annastrophic was questioning! Really!  Perhaps it would help if you knew that we get hours of ABC and NBC on TV every day - as well as the Beeb. All things are usually explained in exhaustive detail, particularly when there is no other news worthy of the name. Peter Jennings is my favourite for repeatedly explaining the obvious.
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#14706
01/05/2001 11:06 PM
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Peter Jennings is my favourite for repeatedly explaining the obvious.Hey, you leave my Petey outta this! Remember, he's A Canuck, so he has to say things repeatedly so that his Southern neighbours can get it!  (much like I'll get it for that crack)
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#14707
01/06/2001 11:55 AM
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#14708
01/06/2001 4:55 PM
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Repeat it Max. It appears you were right, 
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#14709
01/07/2001 12:51 AM
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If I may restrict the geographical confines here, CapK et al, I feel the urge to reproduce a tee-shirt idea told by stand-up Southern US comedienne Brett Butler (sic):
Italian: Fuhgeddaboutit
Jewish: Donworryaboutit
Southern: Uhhwhatwazit?
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#14710
01/07/2001 12:54 AM
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"It" must have been a repeat performance of the burning of Atlanta ...
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#14711
01/07/2001 1:49 AM
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Them's fightin' words, CapK.
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#14712
01/07/2001 3:47 AM
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#14713
01/07/2001 5:49 AM
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CapK suggested "It" must have been a repeat performance of the burning of Atlanta ... Don't even joke about such a disaster!!! This lifelong teetotaller has been worshipping at the altar of the Dynamic Ribbon® since time immemorial - the best thing to come out of Georgia since Eduard Shevardnadze.
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#14714
01/07/2001 3:15 PM
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Okay, what's the Dynamic Ribbon? You mean Pabst?
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#14715
01/07/2001 6:11 PM
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In reply to:
Okay, what's the Dynamic Ribbon? You mean Pabst?
I think it's more likely that he means the squiggly thing down the side of a Coca-Cola can.
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#14716
01/07/2001 6:57 PM
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Or, given his reference to a certain Georgian president, he's referring to the path taken in both directions, separated by a short interval, by bad Georgian wine mixed liberally with vodka. [Disgust emoticon] If Atlanta were in that Georgia, I'd burn it myself. Trouble is, most of Tblisi is already decrepit.
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#14717
01/07/2001 7:41 PM
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CapKiwi informed us that Trouble is, most of Tblisi is already decrepit. So, you mean it wasn't that Georgia which inspired the Ray Charles classic?
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#14718
01/07/2001 7:55 PM
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No, that Georgia is very rarely on my mind.
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#14719
01/07/2001 8:22 PM
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Pop culture reference alert:
Capital Kiwi sez: <No, that Georgia is very rarely on my mind.>
The Beatles beat you to that one, CK. Reference "Back in the USSR" off of the White Album...
Moscow girls make me scream and shout/
That Georgia's always on my mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mind!
Wait a second, I'll wager you knew that!
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#14720
01/07/2001 10:05 PM
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The Beatles beat you to that one, CK. Reference "Back in the USSR" off of the White AlbumPedantry alert! There was no Beatles album titled "White." The album in question was eponymously titled, and acquired the chromatic designation from its cover. Wait a second, I'll wager you knew that!
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#14721
01/07/2001 11:19 PM
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Oof!
Er, um... yeah, I knew that...
BTW, is it now known as the "White CD"? Or is that another post for a different thread?
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#14722
01/08/2001 12:09 AM
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The only Doug asked BTW, is it now known as the "White CD"? Or is that another post for a different thread?I still hear it called the White album, probably because most people who refer to it are of an age to remember it as such. Although, if the other to hich you refer is correct, it never was the White "album", just the White LP - but that way lies madness, wanna join me?
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#14723
01/08/2001 12:22 AM
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I call it "The Beatles Album with 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' On It". One of the best solos that Eric Clapton ever played, really.  And, Doug, yes I did know ...
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#14724
01/08/2001 12:34 AM
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In reply to:
I call it "The Beatles Album with 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' On It". One of the best solos that Eric Clapton ever played, really.
One of my top 5 Beatles tracks, even if Clapton isn't actually Steve's boss!
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01/08/2001 12:44 AM
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even if Clapton isn't actually Steve's boss!
Uhhwhatwuzzit?
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#14726
01/08/2001 1:04 AM
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This is a fun little tangent we're off on...
I've never been a huge REM fan, but I love the fact that they actually named one of their albums, Eponymous.
Oh, and by the way, Max, wouldn't that be an achromatic designation? *Hoping the people on this board recognize that this newbie is just geeking and not being a pretentious jerk icon*
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#14727
01/08/2001 1:29 AM
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Puzzled, CapK repeated even if Clapton isn't actually Steve's boss!
Uhhwhatwuzzit?Surely you remember the remember the famous graffiti "Clapton is ..."?
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#14728
01/08/2001 1:41 AM
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Max: Don't remember any Clapton grafitti (except every album after he got seriously smack-bit until he gave it up again). Doug: Don't worry, we knew you were pretentious right from the start. Why else would you be on this board?
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01/08/2001 1:43 AM
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