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Goody. Let's you and him fight. That should fun to watch.
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06/29/2001 10:40 PM
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...why do you use so many little silly faces, those yellow things? do you think know one will understand you or something. Welcome abroad, archie. 'll bet you intended to capit'lize your name... do it now... befoe it's to late... Mav may not no this, but those 'ittle 'ellow things reelie help to clarifie.  ...all others may reem me at will, peemly...
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06/29/2001 11:55 PM
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This now sounds like the Irish Culture Society Newsgroup at its best.Very cultured, refined, lofty intellectual discussions.
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>Let's you and him fight.
it would prolly get very one-sided in a short hurry.
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So the bookmakers should make out like bandits.
by the way, archie, how is mehitabel these days?
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Welcome aboard, archie. I'll bet you intended to capit'lize your name
Of course the original archie didn't capitalize anything because he couldn't hold down the shift key and the a key at the same time (being how as there was only the one of him) but that shouldn't be a problem with the modern computer keyboard.
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Speaking of cockroaches, fearsome ones came up out of drains in both colleges I attended. Some of them were big as crayfish, and their legs were so rugged I was afraid to step on them with my bare feet. One of those guys would not be intimidated by the shift key. They could stand with hind legs on it and with front legs throw back carriage return lever. None of the ones I saw showed any sign of language capability, more's the pity.
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07/01/2001 10:05 PM
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What's the adjectival form of cockroach?
Incidentally, I think Sparteye is spot-on in her assessment of archie. The precedent *has been set. I can count three AWADers who have logged on again recently under different handles. And I wouldn't be surprised if there were more.
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07/01/2001 10:30 PM
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I can count three AWADers who have logged on again recently under different handles.
Call me oblivious, but who? I can only count one, unless this archie character is indeed an alter ego.
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07/02/2001 11:53 PM
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OK, *guys (and you-all know who you are) let's have a rousing chorus, after 1-2-3:
"Me, myself and I
Have just one point of view:
We all think you're wonderful,
Anuuuu!"
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07/03/2001 12:48 PM
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AS asks: What's the adjectival form of cockroach?
As a group they are referred to as the "Blattidae" . So perhaps the adjective form coul be "blattidine".
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RE: Some of them were big as crayfish, and their legs were so rugged I was afraid to step on them with my bare feet. (Dr. Bill's comment on roaches)
Dear doctor, i can't even stand the idea of killing baby roaches with bare hands or feet.. (way to gross!) One joy of owning a house is no roaches! (don't ask about ants) In apartment building, you are at the mercy of your nieghbor. if they are slobs/poor housekeepers the whole building can get infested.. but in a house, its all your own problem--or solution-- and with just a little care, you can live roach free..
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07/05/2001 10:59 PM
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just a little care, you can live roach free.. Even a slob can empty an ash tray when it's full... 
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multiple Full Monty threads So I guess we could say that this board is full of monty, profuse with montification, overflowing with monty fullness.  By the way, my alter-ego on this board is blank. I think it's been seen a few times lately. Problem is, I just can't get a handle on it. And let's adjectivize an animal while we're here... waspish. Dunno why, perhaps because of the stinging quips on this thread. And welcome to the Board, Archie... pay no attention to that man behind the maverick curtain...he's quite harmless once he leaves Oz in his hot-air balloon! hi, mav And, by the way, Archie...how's Edith and Meathead doing? The only roach adjective I know is roach clip.
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Since we are using more or less scientific names. "vespid" is the adjective for wasps.
Of all life's surprises, there is none that compare with stepping on a ground wasp nest you didn't know was there.
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Of all life's surprises, there is none that compare with stepping on a ground wasp nest you didn't know was there
Thank heaven for the silver lining ... meeting all those nice EMTs and ER doctors and nurses ... and living to tell the tale!
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What about nouns, instead of adjectives, for a particular animal species of a particular age and/or gender? For example, "horse" includes mare, stallion, colt, filly, and foal. There must be numerous others, beyond the obvious ones.
The subject inevitably involves animal husbandry, and so may prove stimulating.
(edit) My spouse points out that the above example notes only two genders; it ignores a third gender, exemplified by the term "gelding". (Draw no implications from the fact that it was my spouse who noted this.)
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The subject inevitably involves animal husbandry, and so may prove stimulating.Good heavens, Keiva! Whatever are you suggesting? 
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08/12/2001 10:03 PM
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The subject inevitably involves animal husbandry, and so may prove stimulating.Good heavens, Keiva! Whatever are you suggesting?A can be as good as a nod, and I anticipate that there may be (t)wits who infer what isn't implied. (cf. Tom Lehrer (I think): "In college he majored in animal husbandry -- until they caught him at it.")
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While living in Mexico, I had many opportunities to squash those little, or some not so little, buggers. NEVER with my bare feet though[shiver]. Once during a power outage I heard a rustling in my kitchen and I had visions of them carting off my onions and tomatoes on their shoulders. That prompted "The Great Flashlight Massacre" that didn't end until the floor was covered with bodies. At another time I had a scorpion in a jar and fed him ala Norman Bates. (You know, guests from the Roach Motel).
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08/31/2001 12:39 PM
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Dear Consuelo: there used to be a song about the cockroach being unable to walk because he had no marijuana to smoke. Did you try ripping off their bag?
La Cucaracha, la Cucaracha
Ya no quiere caminar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Limonada que tomar. (the last line has been changed from "marijuana que fumar."
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That song was a marching song, sung by the revolutionaries during the last Mexican Revolution. The last time I sang it was in Costa Rica the last 1 1/2 miles of a 5 mile walk on the beach, by the light of the full moon, after imbibing waaaaaaay to much scotch. It really helped! I accidently spell-checked this and it didn't recognise imbibing. Must belong to the temperence league !
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Ah--temperance as Max points out, a very politically charged word!
the US abound in them.. a hundred years ago, women were espousing Free Love, not the license of the sixties, but rather free love was a code word for reforming divorce laws -- divorce was such a taboo, they didn't want to even use the word!
One Temperance group came down a street filled with pubs, and tried to rally the drinkers with in to halt their evil ways.
an old cow, a bit worse for wear, staggered out, and seeing the uniforms, and musical instruments was moved to hand over a 5 quid!
the Temperance leader was thrilled, and asked, "which hymn would you like?"
the old cow looked over the motly crew, and announced, "(H)im there, the one with the big drum!"
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09/01/2001 11:27 PM
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Dear of troy: Your evaluation of "free love" was rather narrow. For a more complete description see the URL: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/03/12feature.htmlMy favorite anecdote about free love is the legend that Isadora Duncan suggested to George Bernard Shaw that they have a love child. "Just think it might have your brains and my beauty!" GBS is alleged to have declined on the grounds that it might happen the other way around.
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the review of the book on Woodhull spoke of her many interest, sufferage, spiritualism and free love. it is hard sometimes to look at one movement with out being influenced by another. the free love movement uses the term free love, to promote the idea that love should be free and unshackled by law.
150 years ago, a woman, had no means to find cause (adultry) and even if she found it, no money or right to hire a lawyer on her own behalf, to sue for divorce. she was shackled to a man. (the further west you go in the US, the less this was true. Several of the western states had much more liberal laws) Divorce was so unspeakable, they used free love as code words. No one was then, and almost no one is now "In favor" of divorce. but we have come to see that it should be allowed. It is a rare thing to find someone who is happy about the idea of divorce. we might dislike our ex spouse, but feel sad that we ended up divorced.. divorce is unpleasant, (even if the thought of live with out our spouse is pleasant!)
just as, in this day and age, no one is Pro or anti abortion. the two sides have aligned themselves as "Pro choice" and "Pro life". abortion still has enough of a stigma, no one want to call them selves "Pro Abortion". and the other side, want to come across as positive, too, so they are not Anti anything, but Pro life.
It a good arguement. who wants want to come out and say they are anti life? Language is, and always has been used politically.
those of us, who have been members of "the fairer sex", the weaker sex, the better half, all know these terms (and others) are used to define women as different, less complete than men. they can, and are, used intimitately affactionately, (just as SWMBO can be), but the same words have been used to restrict women. we could do pages of them.. only some times, the users of the words are so sure, the words are OK-- and that women(or others) are just being hysterical.. they brush the whole thing off as being hyper Politically correct.
shade of what tsuwm said in another thread.. the words can mean what ever you want them too..
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Bien non, Of Troy, twas Humpty Dumpty said that... click http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/maxq/ and scroll down. (thanks MaxieQ)
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I think that I shall never see
a hippopotomus
pinnately resembling
a tree
unless it is a cammopotomus
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Or a chamberpotamus. Yuck.
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We have shamefully failed to give the praise due to this noble species, which has hippopotamultiplied to dominate large parts of the globe.
It is particularly prominent on the continent of Asia. In the Arab world, the hippopotamullahs rule the population of hippopotamuslims, who, travelling vast distances, pass through the capital city of HippopotaMuscat in the course of their annual pilgramage, or haaj, to HippopotaMecca. To the north in Asia, in Russia, the urbanized Hippopotamuscovites govern the rural Hippopotamujiks. To the south, the the Hindipotami rule the Indian subcontinent.
Their influence in Africa has waned since their glory days there, but that glory can still be seen in the massive, pyramidal tombs in which the most prominent Hippopotamummies were laid to rest.
In Europe, their cities of HippopotaMunich and HippopotaMuenster are key centers of the German economy, much like their Italian industrial cernter at HippopotaModena.
North America, of course, is dominated by the mighty muddy HippopotaMississippi River. A subttribe, travelling west to the Hawaiin Islands, established themselves as the HiloPotami and the HonoHippoluluPotami.
Moving up to Australia, it is of course well known that Oz is inhabited principally by HippopotaMunchkins, who settled along the mighty HippopotaMurrey River and its tributary, the HippopotaMurrumbidgee.
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a number of bulliten boards have been infected with the hippopotimus virus. as virus's go, it not to destructive, but it does cause every thread to contain HIPPO in some form. an other infect thread recorded what happens when the virus spreads to humans.. http://www.darwinawards.com/ See Hippo Hop for complete details, and active links. 2001 Honorable Mention Confirmed True by Darwin 31 July 2001, Ukraine | Before I retire this category forever, here's one last free spirit who learned a painful lesson while frolicking with large zoo animals. A Ukrainian woman hopped the fence at Kharkiv Zoo to swim with Masha the hippopotamus. The woman's playtime was cut short when the three-ton herbivore abruptly changed its dietary habit and mauled the intruder, in defense of its offspring. The sinking swimmer was rescued from the irate mammal by irate zoo workers, who sent her to the hospital where she was listed in serious but stable condition. Zoo officials said the woman's action was far from unusual: visitors commonly ignore warning signs and fences to cavort with the animals. Because this happens so often -- with polar bears, tigers, whales, and now a hippopotamus -- I am hereby adding it to the list of mental lapses which, while dangerous, occur too regularly to be amusing. Past winners include: Polar Bear Lesson Playing With Cats Killer Whale Rodeo DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2001
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Certainly, Max. I believe the species has pushed as far south as HippopotoMurray Island and McHippopoMcMurdo Station, thus expanding its range to a sixth continent, Antarctica. To date, however, I have been unable to establish any hippohabitation on the South American continent.
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