Dear Jackie, Does this mean a High Priestess may be depreciated?
Only after she has been inducted... ---------------------------------------------------------- For some years prior to 01-01-01 (I still love that!), our medical insurance required us to obtain the approval of our "primary care physician" before going to a specialist, who could be any one from a pre-approved list. Now, though, we have a new insurance plan, and our main Dr.'s office has a list of different specialty practices we can go to without prior approval--as long as we go to one particular place named in each specialty. The reason, they tell me, is because, under this plan, these particular offices are "capitated". I've been afraid to ask.
Does this mean a High Priestess may be depreciated?
Only after she has been inducted... ---------------------------------------------------------- May I direct your attention, O Venerated One, to Sparteye's post on page one of this thread ... since there were no objections I acceded to the designation and donned the mantle. Excuse me as I must now go trim the candle in front of Anu's picture and refresh the flowers at your shrine. wow
Did you hear about the tourists who visited Beethoven's grave? They heard music coming from somewhere, and were able to identify it as his 9th symphony being played backwards. Guess what - he was decomposing!
Dear francais3.1514 : I challenge you to construct a term meaning "Having the ability to identify music played backwards." You started it, remember? wwh
Dear francais3.1415 : I challenge you to construct a word meaning "Having the ability to identify music played backwards." You started it, remember? wwh
Only after she has been inducted... ---------------------------------------------------------- May I direct your attention, O Venerated One, to Sparteye's post on page one of this thread ... since there were no objections I acceded to the designation and donned the mantle. Excuse me as I must now go trim the candle in front of Anu's picture and refresh the flowers at your shrine.
Er--actually, I was making a too-lengthy link between depreciate and deduct.
Capitation I hate to insert a serious (or at least non-risible) note into this entertaining exchange, but I can tell you that capitation is a word used in the medical insurance (and by extension, medical, since they are now firmly joined at the hip) field. It derives from capita as in per capita and denotes a count of patients, or subjects of a study or statistical group. Capitation is almost everything in the managed care field, as it determines funding from govt. and other agencies, reimbursements from insurers, charges by medical service providers, etc. (This courtesy of my wife who works in that field, specifically in the arcane field known as UR/QA - Utilization Review / Quality Assurance)
capitation is a word used in the medical insurance Yes, and in education, too. The Brit Government pays this University - and all the others, of course - a capitation fee for every student who we enrol from within the EU.
>I can tell you that capitation is a word used in the medical insurance (and by extension, medical, since they are now firmly joined at the hip) field
In the UK, Health Insurance is not synonymous with healthcare (only a small percentage of people are insured) but the word capitation is used in health, as in education, to pay general practitioners (primary healthcare doctors) based on the number of patients on their roll.
Incidentally, this is how much the NHS thinks we're worth, per year: Capitation Fees (March 1999 figures): Patient under 65 years of age: £17.65;Patient between 65 and 75: £23.25; Patient over 75: £45.05
>Incidentally, this is how much the NHS thinks we're worth, per year: Capitation Fees (March 1999 figures): Patient under 65 years of age: £17.65;Patient between 65 and 75: £23.25; Patient over 75: £45.05
Jo, take comfort in the thought that, even if you're not appreciated, you're appreciating.
Well, I'll have to ask wwh about that. I don't know whether he has any ducks. If he does, I hope no one takes them away from him! But that would be how you deduckabill.
Eider clare! Avian got anything better to do than hatch up fowl puns on this web site for a few poultry laughs, waddle you do next? I harlequin guess, but I'll wade and see. Wigeon you well, teal we meet again, Jeffrey
Just thought that you should know, there really is a "satin" that is not just one of the old guards trying to be cute. It was a surprising fluke that I happened to be the 2000 (edition) addition to this intriging group. Just for all future references, there is nothing satanic in satin. It is a divergence on the actual spelling of my real name.
Satin writes: It is a divergence on the actual spelling of my real name.
How very said. I rather enjoyed the mental image of her conjured by the old Johnny Mercer song:
Cigarette holder which wigs me over her shoulder, she digs me. Out cattin' that satin doll. Baby, shall we go out skippin ? Careful, amigo, you're flippin', speaks Latin that satin doll. She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me,swich-e-rooney. Telephone numbers well you know, doing my rhumbas with uno and that'n my satin doll.
I didn't mean to make everyone so curious. Truly I am a very open individual. Just ask Musick. This is my very first time in any chat situations and I was being cautious. Sorry for the confusion.
satin sweetie, we were but teasing. We are so used to digging up info on words (and just about anything else) that we simply cannot let a mystery go unsolved, tenacious bunch that we are. If curiosity really killed the cat then we would have very few animal owners in the lot and our animal name thread would be short indeed.
I have been proved wrong on one point. I thought your sibling was a girl because girls will often refer to their sisters (younger or older) as siblings and generally only to younger brothers as siblings. Don't know why, but this is what I have noticed.
We are really glad you have joined us. Remember it is all in fun...a few months ago we were all intrigued about RhubarbCommando.
Rest assured, you didn't. As Jackie said, we're an incurably curious lot, and I feel that I owe you an apology for directing that inquisitiveness toward you. It just seemed like the sort of challenge that many of us here thrive on. It was wrong of me to pose such a challenge without giving sufficient thought to how much discomfort it generate in its "victims", for which I am sorry. Now that you have survived an unintended baptism of fire, I hope that you will soon discover why everybody who posts here regularly, regardless of their board-assigned designation, is truly an addict.
Now wait a minute, Bel.. who says I'm not a girl, or even younger than satin . Someone must be leaking "top-secret personal" information (it was probably me ). Was it something to do with losing my marbles?. I know two "other" females named "Kevin" from high school days (one sp. Keven the other sp. Kevan).
Hello, fellow Board members ... Since I started this -- thinking it would cause a few comments then drop down the list -- I shall take it upon myself to suggest that this thread is getting entirely tooo long! Let's end it here and start other threads for new topics. OK ? Aloha to you all wow
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