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#29510
05/23/2001 9:12 PM
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enthusiast
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Do those with an eidetic memory, not see the employment of books and the written word as futile?
I'd say that they'd like them just as much as anyone else, they just don't see why everyone has to look at a certain book again.
jimthedog
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#29511
05/23/2001 10:13 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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What does eidetic memory mean?
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#29512
05/24/2001 9:27 AM
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It's a photographic memory.
jimthedog
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#29513
05/24/2001 11:12 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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#29514
05/24/2001 11:25 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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The Archimandrite of Linguistics (currently the Most Ven. Anu Garg) solemnly reads out a list of the new Poohbah's postings, after which a trumpet fanfare is blown to wake up the audience.
Oh, Bob! This made me laugh out loud! (I've not had a great deal of time to be here so far this week, and didn't realize I'd let Miscellany go since Monday. Trying to catch up, now.) But you got it all right but the snake oil.
Our oldest-I-mean-grandest Pooh-Bah found out it tastes terrible, so we did away with anointing the lips.
Max: just what do you mean, I spell thangs funny??
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#29515
05/24/2001 11:57 AM
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Faldage wrote The train was shown as traveling from the right side to the left side of the picture.
Presuming you mean right-to-left as I look at the picture :
East.
Surely, you need to know what time of day it is, so that you can note where the shadows fall. Or else look at the picture of the tree and see on which side the moss grows.  In any case, unless it is a moving picture, you do not have any idea whether the train is travelling forwards or backwards, which is a significant factor in solving this particular urgent problem.
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#29516
05/24/2001 12:00 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Max: just what do you mean, I spell thangs funny??
You are quite right, Jackie, my dear. There is no alternative spelling of "thangs" to the one that you have used.
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#29517
05/24/2001 12:15 PM
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Rhuby notes: In any case, unless it is a moving picture, you do not have any idea whether the train is travelling forwards or backwards, which is a significant factor in solving this particular urgent problem.
In this particular case there was a railroad worker who was about to leap onto the train and we could tell from his stance which way he was going to jump. The particular urgent problem was that the train was a runaway with hazardous chemicals on board. If it derailed and dumped its contents in a highly populated area it would have wreaked untold havoc.
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#29518
05/24/2001 4:54 PM
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wreaked untold havoc
Why do we say this common phrase in an apparent past tense, when we surely mean something closer to 'untellable' or 'unpredictable' - anyone know the origin?
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