Oh dear Moyel jokes-- they are (or have been) rampant in NY
-like the person who is traveling in (any remote place in the world)- and his watch battery dies-- walking down a small street, he see a shop with a large pocket watch hanging out side.
he enters the store, the shelfs are dusty and bare, but a well dressed man appears from the back of the shop-
the traveler only speaks english (well this is an american joke!) and starts to speak to the shop keeper, hoping that in spite of the scant visible stock, he will have a battery.. the shop keeper keeps trying to stop the man, but he persist in asking-- Till finally, the shopkeeper explains-- I am not a watchmaker, this is not a watch shop-- i needed some space, rented it, and never removed the watch from the previous tenent... So the man asks-- why not, why don't you advertize what you do? the answer "I am a moyel-- what do you suggest i hang outside?"
Most of the other moyel jokes are just too well, not appropiate! (many are very funny!)
Thanks maverick and of troy. I was crying great big tears thinking that one had gone down the tube, or thunderously silently disapproved of. Now can anyone tell me if it actually heightens the pleasure of the penetrated?
No, no. The divorce was as calm as could be and we remain friends, but when she moved in, one of my cats remained freaked by her for longer than might be expected and she ended up with ogress as a nickname for a while. I was going to add an ogress to some other arms I had floating about in my history as a quarter. One of the quarters already on the shield was or on a bend sable three bananas increscent proper.
Of Troy, so maybe you can help me with TAUPE. I have heard taupe used to describe everything from khaki to beige with a tint of brown or green. What IS it supposed to be.
Dear belMarduk: Forgive me, but I rejoice that a knowledgeable lady can be baffled by the fashion ads. It would surprise me if what the store that used that word had merchandise even remotely resembling the dictionary definition which you of course knew. I think my computer color is a pastel beige blended with a tiny touch of taupe. Beige is sure not close to Italian bigi which I have seen defined flatly as gray.
Well that because taupe is all of those-- taupe is brownish grey-- but that leaves a lot of space since "brown" is really a wonderful hodge-podge color. it can be greenish, or redish, or blackish-- and then take what ever you have, and soften the color by adding grey--which at once makes it lighter (the white half of grey), and drabber, (the black half of the grey).
so everything from the color of cooked mushrooms--or earth soiled sail (white) cloth, or patches of sycamore bark could be called 'taupe' as could khaki-- which is from the hindu for "the color of the dust of the earth"
depending on where you are-- khaki is a very different color. from very light to rather dark, from brownish red, to almost white or green-- to taupe!
Puce is another one of these colors that is kind of hard to define-- its dark reddish brown... but it could be the color of Rose bush leaves-- not the pure green one, but the leaves that have a reddish/brown/green color-- which doesn't sound like it could be a color-- but somehow, rosebushes manage it!
Puce is (to me) a brownish purple color. I baked a loaf of blueberry bread in breadmaker and guess what! The bread was puce colored! Closed my eyes to eat it!
I imagine "indian red" was changed for matters of sensitivity, but it should have been to a name that didn't already have a place elsewhere. Crayola used to have a color called "flesh" that was pinkish. Even when I was a kid I thought it was odd. Of course bandaids didn't match my skin either.
But what color is that? Indian red to me is a iron oxide red-- there is a clay out cropping not far from where i live (in a state park) and you can find "indaian paint pots" small round lumps of clay that have rock like out crusts-- you break them open, and the clay inside has become creamy and soft-- and can be use to "Paint" your face-- (there are also ocher ones, with yellow paint). the red of the indian paint pots to me is indian red-- a red iron oxide.
Is Eygptian red also a red oxide? (which is also known as barn red-- since iron oxide pigment has great staying power, and a when you painted a barn red, you didn't have to repaint it to often.)
Mirrors are often (usually !) silver-- quick silver-- but i have seen bronze mirrors and other color mirrors.
I have an old mirror that i have to be careful when i move it- the mercury is detaching-- and i get beads of quick-silver! -- and a prism is way of seeing component color-- lt (the triangle of glass) lets us see the color component color so white light-- but did you ever shine a flash light beam into a prism-- and laser light enters and leaves a prism unchange in color --(of course--it is a single frequency of light--) but it does change direction...
obviously, the problem is, we use the same word for the triangluar piece of glass, as we do for the result of white light that enter the glass.
M-W word of the day is "sound" -- have you every smelled a sound? I have!-- an other word that has more than one meaning!
Yep. When the bob comes up from the bed of the Thames in the outer reaches towards the sea, you know exactly what the smell of the sound is - and it's almost unfathomably horrible! barf
Well most of the LI Sound is fairly sweet and "sea/salt" but the prevail winds are North easterly, and i live south, so i rarely get to smell it, even though i am only 1 mile (and in sight) of it.
Bill i collect kaleidoscopes-- and have some beautiful ones-- I have one that is not a kaleidoscope proper, but is a karascope-- instead of having a set of mirrors to create 3/6/12/etc symetey, it has a number of peices of polorized lenses... as the polorized lenses over lap, only certain band widths of color pass-- it really help you "see" the difference between "white" light, florecent light, incandecient light, and halogen light-- (which is very "white") since light that doesn't have full spectrum to begin with loks very different with polorizing lenses. The kara scope is sold by MOMA-- (NY Met. Mus. of Modern Art)
most kaleidoscopes don't have proper prisms (but rather have mirrors to refect images) But i do have a kaleidoscope that doesn't have any "little beads" or bits of colored glass, but rather has a cut crystal at the end, this sometimes acts like a prism--
Of course in the very beginning I was thinking of rainbow, but still am not sure it fits. It comes out of a prism, but it cannot be said the be the color of the prism.I've been waiting for someone else to say rainbow, and see how they defended that answer.
No clear is not a color--it is a property-- just like translucence-- I loved it when i discovered some "stones" are translucent! Some like most marbles are "opaque" but some like agate-- are translucent. there is a lovely church in Rome, that has agate not stained glass windows--
and i think a polarizing effect can be found in some natural materials, too. by that i mean they will allow certain frequencies of light to pass, but will block others-- and the effect depends on the position of the materal relative to the light source...
"florecent" is not just a "light type" but a property too, some materials absorb or reflect UV (ultra violet) light-- and while we can't see the UV light, we can see the change in color or reflectiveness of the material-- so UV lights are used to create "psychedelic" colors. And many clothing detergents use UV dyes to make clothes look "brigher" --remember the last time you went to a disco-- and your shirt looked dull-- the plastic buttons glowed? the UV dyes don't work well on man made fabrics-- but do on many plastics.. so your polyester shirt didn't glow- but the plastic "pearl" buttons did!
I have a black (UV) light for my rock collections. its always fun when someone gets close to see what else will glow in light. some diamonds (but not all) will as will many real gem stones.
btw, i found one of atomica's definitions interesting: "A medium that misrepresents whatever is seen through it". Seems the word 'prism' could figuratively be applied to our own eyes, when colored by our experiences and resultant presuppositions.
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You're welcome, Helen.
