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Dr. Bill asks: When does "platonic" become "platoonic"?
She did that many? All at once? Shades of Yekaterina Bolshoya!
(And the horse they rode in on)
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05/07/2001 6:16 PM
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trousers that stood up by themselves
As to clothes that would stand up by themselves, there were some of a very different kind. When my wife was in nurse's training, at Church Home and Hospital in Baltimore ca. 1960-62, the uniform included a long white apron, only a couple inches shorter than the hem of the uniform frock (which came 3 inches above the shoes), going halfway round the body with a high bib and wide straps crossing behind, made of heavy cotton. It had to immaculately laundered and, literally, starched so stiff that it would stand up in a corner of the room. The uniform frocks (blue for students) had detachable white collars which also had to be starched so they were stiff as celluloid and which were often felt to be instruments designed for self-decapitation. Dr. Bill probably remembers uniforms of this type. The school kept these uniforms until it closed, in the 70's, but only the oldest nurses, like the teaching faculty and the director, wore the old-fashioned uniforms; graduates wore something more bearable, and nowadays, of course, hardly any nurses wear uniforms or the distinctive caps any more.
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#28101
05/08/2001 8:14 AM
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lengthy dissertation on rules and teams. Or clubs. Or whatever
[Heavy sigh emoticon] Don't you Us'ns know anything about cricket? They are NOT clubs, they are BATs.
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05/08/2001 12:38 PM
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They are NOT clubs, they are BATs.You have a bunch of people form a bat?? 
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05/08/2001 3:16 PM
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They are NOT clubs, they are BATs.
You have a bunch of people form a bat??
Yeah. You can hear them shouting "Me, Me. I want to be the wings this time!" and "Why not a vampire? I feel real mean tonight!" and "If we hang around upside down any longer, I shall be sick". Happens all the time over here.
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#28104
05/08/2001 5:09 PM
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Yeah. You can hear them shouting "Me, Me. I want to be the wings this time!" and "Why not a vampire? I feel real mean tonight!" and "If we hang around upside down any longer, I shall be sick". Happens all the time over here.And I thought this problem only affected cows...
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#28105
05/09/2001 9:42 AM
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And I thought this problem only affected cows...That's okay, JuanMaria. You can take your foot out of your mouth, now!
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05/09/2001 1:08 PM
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Dear CK: I am mystified that you should accuse juanmaria of having foot and mouth disease.
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05/09/2001 1:17 PM
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Well at least Foot 'n mouth disease is not fatal-- neither kind.
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05/09/2001 4:21 PM
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At least he didn't use hoof instead of foot...
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05/09/2001 6:39 PM
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Returning to Q&A, is there another English word for FMD?.
We know it in Spain as “fiebre aftosa” or “glosopeda”.
“Fiebre” is fever and we call “afta” to those blisters or boils that appear mainly on the mouth.
I will left the etymology of “glosopeda” for those who know Latin better than me.
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05/10/2001 6:08 AM
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glosopedaShiny shoes? 
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05/10/2001 6:44 AM
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And I thought this problem (people trying to be bats and being sick) only affected cows
JuanMaria, you are so very nearly right. Some of these Bat forming groups couldn't decide if they wanted to be bats or cows, so tried both, and became known as Batty Cows, and thence to Mad Cows. Over most of the countryside however these people are known as "Cow Bats".
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#28112
05/10/2001 7:12 AM
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Over most of the countryside however these people are known as "Cow Bats".
The ones you shouldn't step in?
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05/10/2001 7:26 AM
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people are known as "Cow Bats".
The ones you shouldn't step in? You got it.!
One of the unforseen (and very few) benefits of FMD is that there are lots of buckets of disinfectant at convenient points round the countryside, to clean your boots if you do step on a cow bat.
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#28114
05/10/2001 11:58 AM
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And I thought this problem only affected cows... became known as Batty Cows, and thence to Mad Cows. Over most of the countryside however these people are known as "Cow Bats".The ones you shouldn't step in?You got it.!Oh man, you guys are killin' me!
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05/10/2001 12:16 PM
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Oh that why we have been Okay so far-- we don't have Cow Bats Our cows make Cow Pies.
(in other part of the country, the plural of cow is cattle, but in dairy country like NY, most herd are collections of females -- (cow -- s., female bov-- bull, s. male bov) so you get herd of cows.)
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#28116
05/10/2001 12:24 PM
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the plural of cow is cattle
Or beeves if they're eating type cows.
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05/10/2001 12:36 PM
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the plural of cow is cattle....if they're eating type cows.
Dairy cows eat too-- but are not grown (raised) for their edible meat–
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05/10/2001 1:32 PM
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Our cows make Cow Pies.
otherwise known in UK as Country Pancakes. (that is if we are still on matters scatological, or even scatterlogical)
Desperate Dan in the Beano (?Dandy) comic always ate Cow Pie (note the important loss of the "s") with a whole cow in the dish with pastry over it, but you could still see the horns. Not quite as subtle as the snake having eaten the elephant!
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05/10/2001 1:38 PM
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Ledasdottir remarks: Dairy cows eat too
And then there are those who differentiate between eating apples and other kinds (e.g., cooking apples).
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05/10/2001 3:29 PM
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plural of cow
There's the archaic and poetic plural kine
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05/10/2001 3:40 PM
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How'd it get changed to "wicked" when we were still discussing cricket?
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05/10/2001 3:47 PM
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And have cow-chip tossin' contests (think Frisbee) around there here parts. No, I've never participated. But yes, I have called pigs. [straight-man]
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05/10/2001 5:17 PM
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All this talk gives me an oblique slant to the old rhyme
"patty cake, patty cake, baker's man..."
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05/11/2001 2:15 AM
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yes, I have called pigs. [straight-man]Well, that makes sense. You probably haven't dated or been married to a gay man...
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05/11/2001 8:08 AM
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Heard tell that during the Great Depression, kids used to collect them in Southland and they were dried off in the corner of the hayshed. They were then burned for fuel. And still are in Africa. So they do have their uses ... provided you don't STEP IN THEM! BTW where did cricket come into this thread, AnnaS?
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05/12/2001 6:07 PM
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And have cow-chip tossin' contests (think Frisbee) around there here parts
Is that true or bull****?
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05/13/2001 10:50 PM
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My mother used to work at a Boy Scout Camp, she ran the Cow-chip toss on Fridays. The key is to find a really dry one.
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#28128
05/14/2001 3:34 AM
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yes, I have called pigs.Babe, or Wilbur? You probably haven't dated or been married to a gay man..You mean they've all been sad? I suppose I'd be too if some girl started chucking organic frisbees at me. 
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