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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 8 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Re: agony aunts #50797 12/30/01 06:31 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind OP Carpal Tunnel OP Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... All for understanding those archetypes! So, we got Agony Abby and Agony Ann, both ants, who help you with your hants, tants, and dants. Thanks, t! Best regards, DubDub Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dumb Ant Question III #50798 12/30/01 07:05 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... So what does an ant call its mother's sister? (leaving now...getting close to Eagles/Giants time) and I guess I'd better run after that one! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Ain't Aunt Formica© #50799 12/30/01 07:06 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 K Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel K Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Though it's attractive to suppose that Formica© has something to do with ants, t'aint so. http://www.formica-europe.com/main_com.htm: Formica was invented in Cincinnati in 1913 by two young men, Herbert Faber and Daniel O'Connor. It was intended to serve as an electrical insulator and was created as a replacement for Mica, which was used for that purpose at the time. Hence the name 'for mica'. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: agony aunts #50800 12/30/01 07:12 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York "Agony Aunt" is chiefly a Brit expression, so I guess we can surmise how it's *supposed to be pronounced. For further/previous discussion of regional pronunciations of "aunt", see another thread Wordwind started that also sort of warped off into insect kinship here recently in Q&A on Lifetime Pronunciation Addi(c[sic])tions. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: agony aunts #50801 12/30/01 08:13 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England ... which is a pun of sorts, given what's transpired (or transgressed) in this thread while I've been ignoring it. Imagine this Latin conversation, held between, say, Marcus and Brutus by a food stall in the forum on March 15, 44BC "Marcus, estne haec?" "Salve Brutus. Formica est." "O me miseram! Barf! Chunder! Quo lamnia mea est?" Brutus fumbles around frantically while retching uncontrollably, finds knife stuck in waistband of breechclout and then stabs Caesar multiple times. Caesar, who was innocently eating fried lampreys and thinking about which gladiator he was going to bet on at the arena that afternoon stumbles to his knees and dies, not uttering "Et tu, Brute!", but "Et tu, Lamprey!" He was going for his third when Brutus, who couldn't find a cat, in the heat of the moment chose to, ah, kick Caesar. Which wasn't felisitous at all, at least from Caesar's point of view. And what was the root cause of the one of the most famous murders of all time? This: Formica -ae f The act of paramecia mating both sexually and asexually on a table top of dubious quality. Formica Formicae Formicam Formicae Formicae Formica Formicae Formicae Formicas Formicarum Formicis Formicis The mind just boggles. The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: agony aunts #50802 12/30/01 08:40 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 [blue] Formica Formicae Formicam Formicae Formicae Formica Formicae Formicae Formicas Formicarum Formicis Formicis [/blue] Where did you get that order, CapK? You guys do everthang upside down there at the bottom of the world? It should be: Formica Formicae Formicae Formicam Formica Formica Formicae Formicarum Formicis Formicas Formicis Formicae Sheesh! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: agony aunts #50803 12/30/01 08:49 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind OP Carpal Tunnel OP Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Dear AnnaS: Lifetime Pronuncation Additions was really what I intended the thread topic to be, although addictions are interesting, too. I started the thread because I'd been wondering about those words that we learn one pronuncation for in our youth, but, by the time you've lived to be as old as I, are overtaken by incorrect pronunciations and, finally, found to be acceptable by those boards of lexicographers. So, these are the pronunciation additions to the dictionary to which I was referring. Sheesh! You done gone and zapped me on Cole Porter yesterday, and you're back "sic"'n the spelling dogs on me today! I am learning to feel the power of the ASP, indeed! Best regards, DubDub PS: To CapK: Wow! Amazing post up there! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: [sic] #50804 12/30/01 10:24 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York That, my dear WW, was not intended as a presumptious spelling correction but rather as a sort of internal wordplay, which apparently fell flat on its face. Not the first time, nor will it be the last. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: agony aunts #50805 12/30/01 10:43 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 " Brutus, who couldn't find a cat, in the heat of the moment chose to, ah, kick Caesar. Which wasn't felisitous at all, at least from Caesar's point of view." Dear CK: If this is a pun, I don't get it. With, or without the apparent typo. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: dramamine #50806 12/30/01 11:18 PM A Anonymous Unregistered Anonymous Unregistered A which apparently fell flat on its face well, FWIW, i find it quite witty. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 8 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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