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I'd been thinking a thread on nautical terminology would be interesting; I know little of it but find it's often poetic. Would one of you be interested in kicking one off? It could include mariners' names for places, too. Anyone biting?
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Congatulations on your enthusiasm! Now maybe you can place it where it belongs... or at least follow a thread... 
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inselpeter wants a thread on nautical terminology
I have started the ball rolling in Miscellany.
Now that really takes the cake! Ænigma doesn't like the name of one of the sections on this board! mischief indeed! [Borrowing a Harrumph! from AnnaS emoticon]
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Tired and emotional
Maverick, my memory (not always to be relied upon), has it that the phrrase was first used by Harold Wilson, prime minister at the time, trying to excuse George Brown's obviously drunken state in a TV interview by claiming that he (George Brown) had been "tired and emotional". It has since passed into the language.
Thanks, shanks, for posting that one.
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Maverick, my memory (not always to be relied upon), has it that the phrrase was first used by Harold Wilson, prime minister at the time, trying to excuse George Brown's obviously drunken state in a TV interview by claiming that he (George Brown) had been "tired and emotional". It has since passed into the language.
Ooooh, I think we can do better than that down here in Zild. In 1984, a very appropriate year, our dictatorial but permanently pickled Prime Minister, Sir Rob (Gin is my middle name) Muldoon, staggered out of a meeting with a dissident MP and declared an election without any real consultation with anyone else. The National Party proceeded to lose the election on a scale virtually previously unheard of. He was tired, yes, emotional, yes, but most of all, he was PISSED as a chook ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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<< virtually previously>>
Cap, I think you're on to something here. "Virtually previous" could come in handy in all sorts of situations, especially for politicos who need to re-arrange the inconvenience of precedent. [seriouslikon]
But can't help a quip. To take it to an extreme, a court could make a present decision virtually previous by declaring that that decision cannot be relied upon to set a future precedent. The present past thus becomes the virtual future in one (fail, fall, fowl, fool?) swoop and quicker than an Augustine moment.
This is Binky, wishing you a pleasant from the rings of Saturn, signing off.
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It'll cost you.
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My belief, but I'm not sure was that it was Private Eye that coined it about George Brown.
It was also used in Yes Minister with an addition: Sir Humphrey reads a newspaper report of Hacker's behaviour back to him the next morning, then clarifies that the exact phrase they used was "tired and emotional as a newt".
-- relying on memory, nothing more
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Repetition, witty but.
Did we not have this discussion some time ago?
Can anyone supply the necessary?
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