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11/11/2001 11:21 PM
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To Geoff: Thanks for the heads-up; I'll add myself. 
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#46970
11/12/2001 7:49 AM
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ww - as stated by another poster - you must add "The Fremantle Doctor" to your list - it's a strong sea breeze we get in Perth in summer. It's blowing outside as I type.
("The Doctor" is a fast moving (say 25 knot), hot wind. Without it, Perth in summer would be like living in an oven. With it, Perth in summer is like living in a fan forced oven!!)
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#46971
11/12/2001 2:53 PM
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And I am sobbing up a stormwind that nobody noticed my vice-versa.
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11/12/2001 3:25 PM
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>And I am sobbing up a stormwind that nobody noticed my vice-versa.
or, perhaps, politely igoring the obviousizing of teD's bon mot.
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#46973
11/12/2001 3:46 PM
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"Igoring" is behaviour not in my lexicon, nor in WNW. And your wind is not as musical as Stravinsky's.
Your princely "igoring" is "borodining".
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#46974
11/12/2001 4:01 PM
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>There should be a book of *ologies. windwallah, I googled 'list of ologies' and found a handful of sites with (short) lists. the best of the lot is http://www.everythink.co.uk/science/T0001_ologies.htmlbut it doesn't even have loimology! 8^)
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#46975
11/12/2001 4:05 PM
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igoring - 1) the practice of robbing graves for the purpose of frankensteinification 2) the composition of ghastful music
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#46976
11/12/2001 4:28 PM
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"Biting the dust" used to be the classic cliché for demise of Indian at hand of dead-shot Cowboy. However the Indian maidens never bit the dust,nor were they round-heeled.They stuffed the jade gate with the dust.
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#46977
11/12/2001 11:13 PM
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Thanks, tsuwm, for a more useful *olological listing.
Anemology at least covers the windy studies, but, off the top of my head, I can't imagine why bryology is the study of Moses...
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#46978
11/13/2001 12:28 AM
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Dear Whirlwind: You have to be kidding about bryology being study of Moses. He was original rolling stone who gathered no mosses, but did not get to be botany eponym.
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#46979
11/13/2001 1:39 AM
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wwh: Heh, I was just citing the site! Here's part of the list I perused: Balneology - Natural and medicinal baths
Biology - Living organisms
Bryology - Moses
Campanology - Bells
Cardiology - Heart function and disease
Carpology - Fruits and seedshttp://www.everythink.co.uk/science/T0001_ologies.html...as submitted on an above post by tsuwm. Next question, well, if bryology is the study of Moses, then what do you think a bryophyte might be? Wordweird
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#46980
11/13/2001 2:04 AM
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And carphology is the study of lint. Well, almost. Carphologia can be symptom of mild acute brain syndrome such as my oldest daughter had during severe measles, trying to touch illusionary objects floating in front of her.
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11/13/2001 2:14 AM
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Carphology is the study of lint? Wow! Well, that's got to be a branch of the study of dust if we could ever agree upon what that study mite be....
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11/13/2001 2:46 AM
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mite study just about tops the list = acarology
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#46983
11/13/2001 3:14 AM
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Dear Water Witch: Your "balneology" reminds me of elevator operator in Medical Building of BCH in forties. He smelled bad enough he could have been chemical warfare agent. But he had political connections, so complaints were fruitless. But one resident was outstandingly resourceful. He got on elevator, and kept looking at the Mephitus mephitus, and then looking away hurriedly when operator noticed him.
Finally operator demanded: "Wy you looka at me dat way?" The resident said in a surprised way:"Hasn't anybody ever told you you have a severe case of nowasheenuffie?" "Wats dat?" " A very serious condition that could turn into skin cancer." The operator had been around enough to know what "cancer" meant, and he would have turned pale, except dirt layer hid it. "Waddo I do about it?" The resident wrote out an Rx for Sapo mollis, well rubbed in, and removed with lots of water.
The stink went away, and operator was proud to continue fighting his nowasheenuffie. He was getting treatment.
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#46984
11/13/2001 3:20 AM
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>Carphology is the study of lint?
actually, carphology is the picking at bedclothes that is an affliction which troubles delerious patients or those that suffer from dementia (also called floccilation).
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#46985
11/13/2001 3:57 AM
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Yes, Nor'easters are the classic monster storms that rage up the East Coast from the Gulf and can be more formidable than hurricanes. In fact, the Great Storm of '62, or the "Ash Wednesday Storm," which hit us in March of that year, was the worst storm of the 20th Century for us (UCLIU)! It stalled over the coast, as these gales often do, but this time it stayed for 4 days through 8 high tides right on the Spring Tide, the astromically high tide on a full moon that reaches full zenith only a couple of times a year. The ocean met the bay inundating all the barrier island towns, hasn't happened since or before in historical memory...it was a disaster! Devastated the entire coast. 'Course, I believe the Hurricane of '38 was the storm of the century up New England way (wow, wwh, am I right about this?). But, yeah, nor'easters are no fun in these parts. I remember one in December of '82 that was blowin' 90 mph steady with higher gusts, and the house wouldn't stop shaking...amusement soon turned to fear. After that I ain't stickin' around for any hurricanes Cat 2 or higher!
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#46986
11/13/2001 1:59 PM
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And "Rhe:*ology is the study of fluids in motion or flow in solids
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#46987
11/13/2001 2:33 PM
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Hurricane Alice is the one i remember-- back in 1971-- Faldage will remember it too, it he was living up state then-- it stalled, just south of NY, lost alot of power, but picked up moisture.. NYC was flooded -- but upstate got it even worse.. places like Corning NY had massive floods-- the river flooded and water was 6 to 8 foot deep in town. and most of Corning is a high bluff-- not in true "bottom land" -- last time i was there, (about 10 years ago) some building still had "water marks" visible.
the Gulf Stream current directs warm water up the east coast, and across the Atlantic-- southern ireland sports tropical american palm trees-- the seeds travel 2000 miles before hitting land.. and many a hurriicane travels with the warm waters of the Gulf stream.. the warm water keeps the hurricane active.. if we are lucky, a nice high pressure system from the west drives the hurricane out to sea.. Unlucky-- an a Low, and it moves inland.. Obviously, the further north you go, the better chances you have..
the hurricane of '38 was called the Long Island Expressway (In NY at least)- it raced across the middle of the island, and on up into NE and nearly washed away all of Rhode Island-- a place that it joked has 10 counties at Low tide, but only 3 at high tide. part of the problems was the storm had remained out at sea, and no one knew it was coming.. so no precautions had been taken at all to evacuate low lying areas.
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#46988
11/13/2001 3:03 PM
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Dear WO'N:In 1938 we didn't even know it was a hurricane until after it was over. Rain had softened ground so roots of big trees worked loose and huge elms were across the road in many places. The chainsaw was not yet available, and it was over two weeks before some roads were passable again.
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#46989
11/13/2001 5:45 PM
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I remember Alice quite well. It washed away whole graveyards in northern PA (Wilkes-Barre et al.) and the coffins were found for miles downstream. Grisly.
There is a story about the hurricane of 1938 (this was before we started giving them names.) A fellow in NE had just brought a new barometer home and he couldn't get it to read anythign except "hurricane." He took it to the post office to mail it back and when he returned home the house was gone.
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#46990
11/13/2001 9:57 PM
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Since hurricanes on the US East coast are spawned by tropical depressions, could we just seed the clouds with Prozac?
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#46991
11/13/2001 10:25 PM
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Or mass-medicate all residents of the Tropical Zone with Prozac.
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#46992
11/13/2001 10:35 PM
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Do you have any idea how much that stuff costs?  I hear it is quite expensive (I work in a drugstore). Maybe now that there is a generic(saw the e-mail at work this morning) it could be more cost-effective to throw it up into the clouds. How about over Afghanistan? 
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#46993
11/13/2001 10:54 PM
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Dear Consuelo: As if I was trying to make drug stocks going up. I was just trying to avoid an air pollution problem.
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11/13/2001 10:55 PM
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Dear Consuelo: As if I was trying to make drug stocks go up. I was just trying to avoid an air pollution problem.
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#46995
11/13/2001 11:25 PM
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Please! Is there anything you can do to make MY stock go up? Pretty Pretty Please! I figure I only need about 5 more splits before I can retire to someplace warm on a beach where everyone calls me Consuelo (off in my own little dreamland-e) 
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#46996
11/14/2001 10:48 PM
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Prozac over Afghanistan? Could rename the nation Prozakistan.
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11/15/2001 1:24 PM
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wwh wrote : In 1938 we didn't even know it was a hurricane until after it was over.
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True! I was nine years old and had about 10 days of no school before the electricity was restored. Mother cooked on a coal fired old black stove that she had providentially insisted be connected in the cellar "in case of emergency!" A very forward looking woman, my Mother. The furnace was coal fired so we had heat.
In the '70s storm I was a reporter in our Seacoast town when I got outside I sunk up to my hips in the snow ... really. Got to work courtesy of a friendly snow plow operator. Only three came into the office. Two were "children" of newspaper families. The third one eventually became a managing Editor. He had grasped the main fact of newspaper life : when things are at their worst is when we were most needed at work.
I could go on for three pages about the ensuing week, including anecdotes about how the Fire Department "lost" a pumper because of flooding by tides and snow, while trying to evacuate people living next to the marsh! But enough! More than you wanted to know.
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#46998
11/16/2001 6:13 AM
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Prozac over Afghanistan? Could rename the nation Prozakistan.This in a country whose main export is opium? What's the point? Now if one were to use Viagra it would be Cockystan.  Oops, I'm sounding like Dr. Bill!
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11/16/2001 2:56 PM
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Maybe it would be better if they made love not war. But what would it do to our guys? And how would it help us catch bin Laden?
Incidentally, there seem to be unwelcome changes in way Board works. When it works. Real flaky today.
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11/16/2001 6:24 PM
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Doesn't sound like it needs Viagra
Edited a minute or so later: Sorry, Geoff, I didn't read the post above correctly. Tried to delete this and was refused permission.
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11/17/2001 6:58 PM
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I remember having been haunted by a description of a maelstrom in a short story possibly by Edgar Allen Poe, but my memory is very vague on this point of authorships.
In the story, a boat is pulled down into a maelstrom off the coast of a Scandanavian country, I believe.
Anyway, are the winds partly responsible for this phenomenon?
We've listed lots of winds, but have we mentioned cyclones, twisters, tornadoes, and other general windstrosities other than the hurricane? (Hmmmm, I wonder what a cane has to do with a hurricane? And does the hurri have anythin' to do with hurry? Actually, having witnessed many an ADHD actor back stage looking for a prop, I can imagine the panic over needing a cane for an upcoming chorus number and being in a hurry to find the cane...)
Best regards from
Poor Wordwind whose computer crashed this morning...This one's a slow one I'm on that the retailer loaned me till mine's fixed...I repeat: Always back up everything with floppies; always back up everything with floppies; I didn't...)
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11/17/2001 7:56 PM
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Dear WW: the maelstrom is not something WhirlingWinds do not create. Here is a URL about it. Not very long. http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/eng/maelstrom.htmCommiseration on computer collapse. But backing stuff up on floppies is I think obsolete. If I had much stuff I wanted to back up, I would get something that could hold a hundred megabytes. Can't even remember name of thing.Here is a mile long URL about the gadgets: httphttp://windows.berkeley.edu/hardware/pcstorage.html://windows.berkeley.edu/hardware/pcstorage.html
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11/17/2001 8:14 PM
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Oh, many thanks, wwh, for the link to the maelstroms, the "ocean's navel." There was mention of the Poe story I had remembered, "Descent into the Maelstrom."
On my crashed computer: The worst part are all of the things I had copied and pasted, terrific pictures and bits of text, and hundreds of rare words I enjoyed studying. I will mend my ways.
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11/17/2001 8:15 PM
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WW-- i didn't follow dr. bill's link, but he is right about floppies.. CD burners have been come so reasonable, and blank cd's can be found for about $0.25-- more expensive than a single floppie, but since they replace so many! the are really cheaper.
but just incase.. open your Word processor.
In WP look in Tools-- Settings--> files and set your default file folder for WP doct, and set a default back up to A:/ and then make it a habit to keep a floppy in the drive..
in Word, Tools, options--> file locations.. you can also set up an autoback up to A:/
then you don't have to remeber-- every time you do a save/ the program will try to save to A:/ and remind you to install a blank disk..
if you get a CD burner, leave that as your backup..
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11/20/2001 11:29 PM
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I went back and read some old threads and came across the regrettably short one y'all had discussed about Tod Sloan. That sent me looking online for tod, and then to toddy, and toddy to arrack, then to rack, and under rack I found something else blown by the wind, so I thought it might find a nice comfy place here:
[what else?]RACK, n. [See Reek.]
Properly, vapor; hence, thin flying broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack
Sorry--I couldn't post the link because it appeared to take up too much room...
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11/21/2001 1:36 AM
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RACK, n. [See Reek.]
Properly, vapor; hence, thin flying broken cloudsAh--not likely that rack could cause ruin, then... 
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